Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-26580819-20150730224409

Yeah, it was something like that. I'm not sure where I put my vol. 1 at the moment. I thought it was on my desk upstairs but it's not so I'll have to search for it to see what the English version said when I find it.

Yeah, I'm not sure how well English is taught in school in Japan. Apparently a lot of Japanese people don't like to try and speak English to foreigners because they don't think they're good enough. It probably depends on the school and if they have a native English speaker helping out (though usually they have to stick to the curriculum and stuff).

William seems like the type who would be slightly obsessed with Western culture and stuff (and LOTR lol) so he might have expanded on what he learned in school by watching English movies or foreign servers and stuff. Shiroe must be good in English if he spent a lot of time on foreign boards and stuff.

Tet also might have been on foreign boards (or got info from someone who did...Kazuhiko?) since, at least in the anime, Tet knows that the test server is one the moon, and the LN had said that very few Japanese players know that since it was only on foreign boards.

My story Tet is a special case and part of the story I'm the most iffy about. Originally I thought about making Tet & Marie cousins... but that got nixed at one point. Before that I decided that if Marie was going to be a natural blonde, she couldn't be fully Japanese, so I gave them an american grandparent (that Tet never knew). Then I saw something that said Marie is undiluted Osakan or something like that, so she's not Naturally blonde. I ended up leaving the Tet part, which was his mother knows English and will randomly use it with the kids so they learned a bit (though Tet says more than once that despite doing well in it in school, he's not fluent.)  Like I said.... totally made up and probably all wrong. XD