Japanese question

[owlmoose]

So I started Fruits Basket (just a few pages in, but it's definitely promising). I know people have explained this to me before, but I'm already getting lost with all the forms of address in Japanese. My understanding is that -san denotes respect and -chan denotes affection (and I realize I'm probably missing all sorts of nuances there), but what does -kun mean? Are there others I need to remember?

Comments

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! :) -Kun is being used pretty generally for boys in the manga, although mostly by girls, which I think is probably telling as far as language and gender dynamcs go. Interesting stuff.