Thinking about it, Japanese curry isn't really anyone else's curry... gravy is actually closer food-wise. But the awesome translation stops at the first game, so a lot of questionable word choices happen in the other games :P

Oh boy fic recs... tsukikoushi, beeblebabe and croik were my favourite writers back in the day and I'd rec any of their PW stuff. The anonymous PW kinkmeme is so crazy that anon_press was set up just to keep track of it, but I was sort of over the entire fandom by the time it got going!