Talk:Tetsuya Kurodake/@comment-25849397-20141211072056/@comment-5959367-20141219115734

@Tachikun Yes, I'm sure. I have studied Japanese and I do understand it quite well. I also watched the episode in Japanese few times just to make sure it wasn't like in dub. Tetsuya never said anything that flirtatious to Terumi. He talked about how he wants her to realize how great Buddyfight is and enjoy it too, how he wants to be her friend and how he'll never forget her (as Terumi started crying because if she loses everyone will forgot about her). Of course, you can take his words as ship hinting but it was mainly just friendship-like. Hearts in new Diabolical Hardcore were supposed to represent Tetsuya's beating heart of enthusiasm and enjoyment of playing Buddyfight and he wanted to share those feelings with Terumi. In Japanese version during Diabolical Hardcore, he said "Please accept my heart" which meant he wants Terumi to accept his feelings of him wanting to befriend with her and to understand how fun Buddyfight can be. There was no straightforward hints he had romantic feelings for her. Only clearly romantic hints there has been in Japanese version are Paruko's crush on Tasuku (only in early episodes), Suzuha's crushes on Tasuku and Gao, Axia's crush on Drum, Terumi's crush on Kyouya and Kuguru's crush on Baku.

And actually, even though Buddyfight dub follows original Japanese version quite well, there is many minor changes. Dub is made more "american-like" while Japanese version is more like Japanese culture. (In original, Baku doesn't say "bro" all the time and Tetsuya doesn't even rap that much). It's understandable as most of people who watch the dub are western indeed. One of most noticeably changes are Axia's gender. In Japanese version, Axia uses female pronouns and calls herself a girl (like in her first appearance, instead of "fellow dragon" to Drum, she said to Suzuha as reason of her escape "As a fellow girl, you should understand [why i run away]. Meeting your buddy is like meeting your destined one."). Yet Drum and Asmodai questioned her gender that isn't she a boy, which she didn't like. So, Axia is not male in Japanese version but transfemale dragon. It's made really clear that she was born as man but sees herself as a woman. Also Asmodai is so much cooler in Japanese version, he's not misogynistic as in dub. There is also some other minor changes. Tetsuya and Terumi's case most likely was caused by, as I said, misunderstanding that Tetsuya's "fast-beating heart" meant how he's excited and not how he suddenly, out of nowhere, got a crush on Terumi.

I, myself, do actually like Tetsuya/Terumi shipping (I prefer them still as friends though) but I'm really glad they didn't make them canon in Japanese version at least since the dub episode was pretty bad as they just made fun of Terumi and suddenly made her love interest/Tetsuya's trophy. Buddyfight dub treats female characters pretty badly unlike they're treated and portrayed well enough in Japanese version.