Thread:Takegaminue/@comment-32769624-20190325130259/@comment-28707004-20190327010053

It's alright, I understand that (and I also get the whole ship thing you mention cause I've kind of seen it myself on other places, especially about certain ships).

Eh, I didn't really say that for myself only. I was recently referred to that specific bit by a couple folks who also got the idea that "he felt something else for her" after they read that bit on the wiki. And I also got to mention that it wasn't the first time I've seen that happen either. It really could do without it, or with it worded a different way as not to create confusion, I think.

Online translators (not always) and a few dictionaries sometimes offer "be charmed by" as a translation, but that responds to the fact that there are no direct translations for that term in English. However, if you look at examples of sentences with it as well as the usage of the word/term in that language, you'll immediately see the term goes far beyond of simply "being charmed", and that it speaks about something entirely romantic instead and it's a term reserved for romance contexts when applied to a person, as it means "fall deeply in love with" (with "being/falling head over heels for someone" as another close literal translation), and you can actually see part of it in the translation of the bio that was included in EoH (which states that "he fell in love", though now it's clear just what sort of love it refers to). Not even kidding, I was legitimately surprised when I first saw they decided to use a term like that ("horekomu" and some of it's conjugations) the first time I saw it because the term has a bit of a "negative" undertone to it in a way in Japanese, as it pretty much means "losing your heart/mind/yourself completely to someone". It's true there are other verbs, especially in Japanese, however, they can't always be used interchangeably, as some are very specific and some others are considered too strong (such as the well-known "ai suru", for example) and are hardly ever used outside very specific cases (such as years-old relationships, i.e., and even then, some Japanese people are not comfortable using those terms).

Of course, with all this I'm not trying to claim a ship is canon or anything (it wouldn't even be possible if that was the case as all this speaks more of a one-sided thing than anything), but I feel like it's something that shouldn't be left out, as it is part of the character as a whole in the end, a part that has been officially aknowledged rather than simply assumed as it happens in other cases, to the extent where even the seiyuus of Jonathan, Speedwagon, and even Erina have commented about it (and joked about it, too, in the latter's case) in a couple episodes of JoJo Radio.