User blog comment:NOBODY/Nitrome News: Aron Steed and the Plastic Plant/@comment-3286869-20150530232124/@comment-4628859-20150604024916

Hmm, I'm not too sure but I think -chan, as a diminutive suffix, is possibly used differently then English diminutive suffixes ("ee or -y" and some others). Apparently -san is a fail-safe honorific so maybe everyone uses that.