Hi,
It recently came to my attention that, when referred to in Japanese, "Final Fantasy" is written in Katakana instead of Hiragana or Kanji. I understand that Katakana is used for loan words, emphasis, onomatopoeia, etc. but why would it be used for something like 'Final' + 'Fantasy' when the Japanese have Kanji for those words. Is it the concepts/ideas that are attached to the words that are foreign?
On the same note, I was looking through the Japanese version of the book 'Alice in Wonderland' and I noticed 'Usagi' is written in Katakana rather than Hiragana. I could only speculate that that has to do with the character rather than the animal, rabbit.
Thanks for any explanations.
