I've added a second<del>nerd</del>, er... girl. And used a real photo for my first character since no-one else used an anime portrait. The hair is different so I've altered her description a little too.<br/><br/>Great to see the boys finally coming out of the woodwork ;) Yay! One thing, Steve, Japanese names are written with family name first, then the given name. Also the proper way everyone would refer to each other initially is "surname-san", so your boy would be called "Naotake-san". The honorific "-san" is a way everyone politely addresses people who are their social equal.<br/><br/>Kids of the same sex who (fairly quickly) would get to know each other would drop the "-san" and just refer to each other by the family name. Again, after a variable period (could be hours, could be months) when they get very good friends they will use the first name and variations on it, nicknames etc, but the key thing is the formal address part which always happens and if teh relationship stays formal (like it would in a school unless a friendship developed) would always be used.<br/><br/>When boys and girls get chummy with each other and the social barriers come down, boys might get referred to as "surname-kun" or "first name-kun", the "-kun" honorific is just a more relaxed formality beyond "-san". Boys would rarely use this with their boy friends, girls would use it with boys and adults with boys. For girls the equivalent is "-chan" though on occasion girls will call their girl friends variations on this "nickname-chan" and so on.<br/><br/>You'll get the hang of it. I can scribble out a brief Japanese-English dictionary if people are interested, just the simple stuff.