That focus on Hat isn't suspicious at all there in that last panel, is it?

You want someone to proofread your comics? This is the second comic in as many days that have featured a mispell.

Whaddya mean? That's obviously a portmanteau of Nakama and Nami!

Given my own RPG group experience, the typo actually does make it seem more authentic. XD

Heheh, I like Rika correcting him.

So do I... but I don't think that is how the strip originally went up.

Seriously though, this really feels like something that my group would have gone through (less the touching, heartfelt aspects of it XP).

Thanks for the offer, but I'd prefer to keep doing this on my own for now.

To be fair to the English language, clumsy and inadequate as it can be at times when one has a "friend who's as close as family", we just refer to them as "family".

It isn't that we don't have the concept in English, we just don't have a specific word dedicated to that concept. ;)

We definitely have the concept, particularly with regards to franchises like Lord of the Rings. The trope is True Companions (Which the OP fan base lobbied hard to be nakama, and the idiotic argument that there is no English equivalent is enough to make me particularly dislike "nakama")
Technically speaking, nakama's dictionary definition translates to friend or comrade, it's the OP fandom that changed it to mean True Companions when translators didn't change the word to friend (somewhere... I know Funimation has it as friend)

The reason certain words in other languages don't have exact English equivalents (key word, EXACT) is because those other languages carry overtones in usage that go beyond just what the word means. In this case, yes nakama would translate to friend/companion, but its usage gives it overtones that don't easily translate exactly, which is why it was used in an otherwise English sentence.

Family seems pretty well accepted to me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jwPTenJmQ

i think that's it. The straw hat even have a character song titled "oratachi wa family" (we are family).

Pardon the tangent, but I'm grinning because this comic has so much discussion, I had to Ctrl+F for "Nov" to find the new post that Comic Fury informed me was here. XP

Wait.... Nakama is legit Japanese?... I seriously thought it was Hawaiian.

You might be thinking of "Ohana."

HA!
Luffy and Stitch!
the madness! the destruction!
the mass hilarity!

Annnnnd you've lost a long-time reader. I've been enjoying this comic for a long time, and you just had to use that word in such a way that you've implied you're just as big an idiot as most of the "japanese-only" fandom.

I would only continue to read this comic if either:
1) Both this comic and the last one were completely rewritten to remove all references to that word,
OR
2) Only this comic was partially rewritten so that Cory was treated as an idiot for his immediate self-contradiction AND Luke's offer to not use the word again is responded to with a "please and thank-you."

Fuck "Nakama" and the people who honestly think it can't be translated. You've done almost as much harm to One Piece's reputation as the 4Kids dub.

Sometimes, it's better to use words we previously didn't in a language. Borrowing and stealing words from other languages as they become useful is how language evolves.

Which is how English came to be in the first place, most of our words are from different languages. For words from Japanese we have a weak example here :http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/japanese-loanwords-in-english/
and an okay example here http://www.fluentu.com/japanese/blog/japanese-loanwords-in-english/. Merriam Webster has a list that are officially in the dictionary here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/8-english-words-that-come-from-japanese.

Bye then.

Because he casually used a foreign word? That actually happens quite often for people who speak multiple languages. If you read/hear a word often in another language you can end up understanding what it means, but when someone asks you, surprise, you don't know how to translate it. It may even have a translation in your native language, but it's just a word you don't use often, so you end up not thinking about it.

Given that you're listed as "Guest" and being hypocritical, either you're an unsubtle troll or just the kind of fan a project like this can do without. I mean, if this really bothered you, did you consider contacting him privately? Oh wait, you can't be bothered to sign up for a free ComicFury account or perhaps you have one and are too scared to go on the record. ;)

Japanese-only and English-only fans are mostly boogie men people use to antagonize someone who disagrees with them over which version of a series is better. I usually like both unless the show is bad, a particularly dub is bad, or I saw so much one way before the other that the second version I heard doesn't sound right.

I'm also one of those guys that have contacted DragonTrainer through PM to let him know when I saw something I didn't like. Guy was able to put up with me and even listen to my concerns. He's cool like that. So someone posting under a "Guest" account instead of the real is probably thrilled by my response just now because - again - such a person is just a troll, complaining to get a reaction. If you are serious, though, use your real ComicFury account to voice your complaint and try to give reasons.

FYI, if you read through these comments, you'll see me pointing out that the concept of nakama is pretty well understood in English, we just don't have a convenient shorthand for it. It is a lot harder, for example, to clearly communicate things like the various forms of "love" that in other languages (like Greek) get their own specific words.

over-reaction much? it being un-translate-able is a myth but its not that big a deal. And remember, it's the character saying this, meaning they are the one subscribing to this myth

Well, in the translation into my native tongue he actually screams "You are my navigator", so for once horrible translation enabled me to completely not know about this Nakama-nonsense.
Yay!

Tell us about a time when a mistranslation saved you a lot of trouble!

4 or 5 days of reading, but i've made it from the start to here. let's hope I don't end up losing interest when unable to binge read like I did with normal One Piece

You know you can always take a break and comeback. ;)

I ended up doing that with regular One Piece myself, though that was because (at the time) I didn't have a reliable streaming website. Now a days, you can just head over to Crunchyroll and binge watch from Episode 1 to whatever is current (Episode 784).