Hello,
This is question that my sound silly, considering I'm asking this after more than an year and a half of japanese, but can ても always be translated as 'even if'? I've encountered this problem many times, but everytime I told myself that I could understand it on my own after more practice, but it didn't happen.
Here's the scenario. There is this boy that plays a lot of visual novels (games with beatiful girls) and there is this one time that he buys a game with beautiful guys instead of girls. He plays it, and a guy appears on the screen and tells him to insert his name. Here's his response: うげー!! 男に聞かれても名前入れる気しねー!! From what I know, ても creates some sort of contrast. I don't know for sure if he likes to insert his name when he is being asked by a girl, but it seems unfitting for the translation to be "Even if I'm being asked by a guy, I don't feel like inserting my name," considering that it's his first time playing a game with guys.
Doesn't my translation make you think that he should enjoy being asked by a guy but he isn't?
I'm also considering the fact that he doesn't like inserting his name even when girls ask him. Then it kind of makes sense ('Even when a guy asks me, i still don't feel like doing it'. I'm just thinking that it makes more sense the other way, considering the story so far. Also, I would like to post some other examples but at the time I didn't write them down anywhere.