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In general, I favor the common practice in English of borrowing a loanword's plural form, as well as its singular (see also: antenna/antennae, vortex/vortices, paparazzi/paparazzo/paparazza, djinni/djinn). While I think I have seen "senpais" or similar Japanese words with the regular English -s plural, it's equally if not more common to retain the original plural from Japanese—which is to say, using the same form of the word as the singular. You can think of Japanese as treating all nouns like the English words "fish," "sheep," or "deer," in that they don't change form according to plurality.
It does, however, have a couple of markers for pluralization. While there is no regular plural form, there are optional markers you can attach to words to specify that there is more than one if you really want to.
I mention this because the word "senpai" actually does have a pluralization marker attached to it in this page (先輩é”). I made the decision that it wasn't necessary to try to insert a similar explicit pluralization in English because Kajiki and Kanbara both showed up in the panel next to the balloon, and I had Mutsuki say "those senpai" a couple panels later. I figured the plural nature of the word was clear from context, so I didn't try to shoehorn in an explicit English equivalent and just used the borrowed plural form ("senpai," identical to the singular form).
One fun thing that I like to consider is that the names for pasta shapes are all in the plural. A single cylindrical rod of pasta would be a "spaghetto;" a single bent tube would be a "macarono."
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Are you keeping an eye out for me here and there? -> Are you looking around for me now and then?
Thank you.
