User blog comment:FaliusKonogami/NAKAMA/@comment-5631052-20121019131113/@comment-972068-20121020192747

That's where "best friend" comes from.

Sure, you can't use the word "friend" in every situation, but nakama CAN be translated in every situation. Stop looking at the word itself and look at how it's used in a sentence. If it means "family", use it. If it means "comrade", use it. Either way, every definition is also a synonym to "friend".

Using nakam is just lazy and idiotic. A translator's job is to translate, not "leave some words in Japanese". "Nakama" isn't even a title. It's a word. A normal, every day word that can have multiple meanings, but every word has one meaning when used in context. Stop being a weeaboo and say what you're trying to say.