sumba0504:

THE FACT THEY THEY CUSS SO MUCH MORE IN THE MANGA HIT DIFFERENT LIKE ITS LOWKEY ATTRACTIVENEJSN

They don’t, though. Adding profanity almost always at the discretion of the translator and is simply not representative of the original text. Japanese doesn’t have “swearing”, just “speaking out of place”. Japanese is a very hierarchical language where the words and grammatical forms someone chooses is meant to convey their perceived status with respect to the listener. Therefore, being “vulgar” isn’t by using “cuss words”, but simply by using grammatical forms that imply that the listener is of a lower status with respect to the speaker than they actually are. For example, calling someone by their first name is not an inherently vulgar action, but if you do it to your parents it’s seen as highly disrespectful. Dropping F-bombs into translations is usually just the translator being “edgy” and has little relation to the original dialogue.

I say “usually”, because Noragami does on occasion use the literal English word “Fuck” in its dialogue, and I translate accordingly. :P

(this literally reads “FAKKIN FUJIWAARAAA!!”)