At 12:18 AM 12/17/97 -0500, Drakkus wrote:

In the Viz translation, he refers to Tatewaki as "Tacchi" and Kuno the
Younger refers to him as "Daddy." I'm not sure if that last is supposed to
be in English or Japanese, given the confusion of the other students in that
panel. I do know that both Tatewaki and the Principal are under HEAVY
Western influences (Kuno's poetry is largely English in origin), so it might
be that the "Daddy" is an affectionate term borrowed from English.

  I believe that Kuno's speech in the original Japanese is actually
patterned after classic Japanese poetry.  Viz uses Shakespeare in the
English translation as an analog to convey the formalism and archaism of
Kuno's language.  

                                                               dml