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I'm watching Blood C, and I'm reminded that in anime, dialog can often consist
of characters just saying other character's names. In this example, most of
Tadayoshi Kisaragi's lines towards Saya are just her name. If I recall, there
was a similar situation in Blood+.

This is also epitomized by Mocha and Tskune in [this
scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw3e6VscMCI).

Is this an anime thing, a Japanese thing, or a more common trope of some kind?
Western live action media doesn't contain this phenomeon, so I think it's an
anime or a Japanese thing.

I'd hazard a guess that this is the voice acting equivalent to non-sakuga
animation ([sakuga explained by
Gigguk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMlIg9gVdY)) mean to fill dialog
cheaply.


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Why do characters repeatedly say other characters names?


While the Japanese language does have various words that are second person
pronouns, the most natural way that doesn't have any hidden meaning behind it
of referring to the other person is using their name, together with a
honorific.

Using a second person pronoun in such situations may come off either as too
rude or too intimate (e.g. "anata" is used by a wife/husband to refer to
husband/wife, just like "darling" or "honey" in English)

Source: <https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2017/08/anata-omae-kimi-kisama-
meaning.html>


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