Brilliant idea to speed reading KATAKANA!

harhol Wrote:How often are ピンク and オレンジ likely to show up in written sources like novels, manga, newspapers & video games? Is it simply a case of semantic preference or are words like 桃色 genuinely becoming obsolete? Or is it just a speech thing? Because the way I speak in English is hugely different from the way I write, and I think that applies to most people.

All the time actually. A good game example would be Trusty Bell (Eternal Sonata). She yells Orange Cure constantly in Katana English. Also in manga, a lot of times you'll see Kanji written with katakana furigana for the english loan word.