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Depends on canon context, but I really don't think there's good obvious approximations for the tone for the most part. You could get away with sir and ma'am most definitely, but this might have the side effect of making your character sound more formal than they actually are meant to be. Everyone being on a Mr/Mrs/Ms last name basis would sound incredibly...formal, distant, and impersonal in English. And senpai? There is absolutely no good way of dubbing that unless you want your character to sound weird or abnormally formal when they're just average in Japan. "Upperclassman Narukami!" "Mr Narukami!" "Senior Narukami!" You get the idea.

tl;dr North American culture (not gonna speak for Europe) is a hell of a lot less formal than Japanese culture is, any attempts to straight up translate it with approximations won't work unless you're trying to translate a medieval canon with tons of lords/ladies/your grace/your excellency/your highness/your majesties available to abuse.

If you don't want to use honorifics, then I'd just personally not bother with approximations in terms of direct language and just use body language and add stuff like 's/he said in a respectful tone' to convey the intent that way.

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