Getsuya posted:

Also since we saw Iris call Ichiro mon frere a bunch this episode: this is the only translation decision we actually got (a little) flak for. Apparently people really don't like it when anime kids don't say 'onii-chan'. I even had people tell me 'if you don't use onii-chan you should at least use 'big brother' which, when was the last time you heard an English-speaking kid refer to some random guy as 'big brother'? It sounds so awkward and forced.

For the longest time we had it as 'Uncle Ichi' but even that seemed a little weird by the end, so someone suggested we use the French and someone else said they had asked some French people and they agreed French kids would totally call random dudes mon frere (I have no idea if this is true) so we went with it.

I think it's cute.