[color=a187be][b]Shinjiro Karasawa[/b][/color]

[color=a187be]"Ka-ra-sa-wa."[/color] he helpfully pronounced, stressing each syllable. [color=a187be]"Yours is pretty cool too, Rebecca. Seems like this place has a thing for heat and flame."[/color] he returned the kindness, though noticeably pronouncing her name without the usual Japanese accent, instead sounding like he'd just switched to natively-spoken English mid-sentence.

Which he had.

But the school apparently did [i]not[/i] have a thing for pronunciation of a normal, everyday Japanese surname. Seriously, it wasn't even strange at all! It wasn't even one of the ones that threw two vowels at you back-to-back, like Maeda or Aoki!

[color=a187be]"Y'know what,"[/color] he continued upon that train of thought, [color=a187be]"if you're gonna call me something, just go with Shinjiro. I don't mind it, and you'll be bustin' my balls way less with that than with Grapejuice."[/color] he nodded resolutely, entirely sure in his explanation.

[color=a187be]"Apparently normal names are a difficult thing to say around here."[/color] came the sour sidenote.