Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1155842-20140425085530

Due to the series created in Japan by a Japanese, the series is penned natively in Japanese. But what if the story was written in the native language of their setting? This is a visualization of how it would transpire:

For Phantom Blood, all conversations would be held exclusively in English, since the setting is in England.

Battle Tendency would also have each characters converse in English, some with thick accents. Some Nazis can converse in English. The Pillar Men would probably mentally and instantly know English due to their powers.

Stardust Crusaders would see some mix of English and Japanese. Due to Jotaro having an English-speaking mother, Jotaro would probably know enough to converse and travel; this will also be important for him for his eventual career where English skills become mandatory. Kakyoin as well would be able to know some English, but would lack advanced skills and likely fall back to Japanese for complex sentences. Avdol comes from a town that has English as second language, so that would not be a problem with Joseph. Joseph would probably pick up some skills to speak Japanese due to his stay and him dealing with Holly's home, and his "other" family. Polnareff may come from a country that eschews English, but is likely he knows some too. When they go outside Japan, they're likely to communicate exclusively in English, even with Jotaro dealing with Dio, speaking Japanese only in personal moments or to form a language barrier against an enemy. Dio himself has traveled to the world after his "resurrection" so it is likely he'd pick up some language skills or two, also being an avid reader. This would make his mudamudamuda battlecry very plausible. I imagine there's plenty of code-switching come Dio VS Jotaro.

Diamond is Unbreakable would have conversations exclusively in Japanese, as it is set in Japan. Joseph conversing in Japanese would not be farfetched.

Golden Whirlwind would present some challenges as Polnareff is French that may know English, but the whole setting is in Italy, where English proficiency for Italians is set to greatly vary. Giorno is raised by a Japanese mother, who is probably compelled to learn other languages like English and Italian to be able to live outside Japan. This gives the likelihood that Giorno is trilingual, that can speak English, Italian and some Japanese.

Stone Ocean is set in the United States where English is the primary language. And because Jolyne is raised in the United States, and Jotaro is all but absent in her youth with an Italian-American mother, Jolyne may know English, but not a lot of Japanese, and possibly some fragments of Italian. All of the conversations in this series would've been conducted purely in English.

Steel Ball Run is set in the United States, therefore all conversations would've been conducted entirely in English.

JoJolion would have conversations entirely in Japanese. 