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I'm on the camp that finds it cute Wakana calls him Arakawa. I see it as her holding him to a higher standard. "You're not some dude, you're a teacher, Arakawa Sensei". It falls into her constant berating him for not doing his job correctly.I agree. I don't mind this particular development that much but this surely is diluting the initial impact we had when the name was first revealed, but I guess that impact slowly died down anyway when he started dishing his name out.
And it feels even more sloppy when that Rika event starts with:
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meanwhile some chaotic hot MILF also knows your name unannounced, just btw.
I bet Wakana always knows but I can't say for certain. But no matter when she knew, Wakana sticks to Arakawa possibly because of 1) work ethics, 2) no real reason to be on the first-name basis with him, and 3) the continuation of his initial "bad joke" of asking her to also call him Sensei back in Ch2. Besides, I think Wakana still referring to him as just Arakawa is...kinda cute in her own way.
Obviously it's more of a habit at this point than an actual effort to change him. It could also be a mix of a surname serving as a nickname sort of. There are many cases of that in real life, where even if you're close friends with someone, you'll call them by their last name. Lastly and ironically, I think Wakana is the only one that calls him Arakawa - which makes it, again ironically, a sort of exclusive pet name between them.