Tricky Translations #4: “I” & “Me” in Japanese « Legends of Localization legendsoflocalization.com

It’s hard to divide all of the Japanese pronouns into distinct categories, but if you study Japanese, you’ll probably encounter these three first.
Washi is extremely common in Japanese entertainment, but not as common in everyday Japanese.
Sometimes Japanese pronouns get kind of weird and unique:There’s also a whole slew of Japanese personal pronouns that appear in entertainment less frequently than the ones listed above.
Some savvy English-speaking game developers have even started to specify their characters’ Japanese pronouns before getting their games localized.
Japanese pronouns – especially personal pronouns – always intimidated me when I first started studying translation.