Kansai Regional Accent: Difference between revisions

 

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* Maeda, the main character of [[Rokudenashi Blues]], slips back into his natural (and extremely thick) Kansai accent whenever he gets mad.

* [[Ranma ½]] has [[Bifauxnen|Ukyo Kuonji]], an Osakan who averts [[The Idiot From Osaka]] by actually being very smart, cunning, and a workaholic (which is a different sort of Kansai stereotype). As is common in Western translations, her accent is translated into a soft, vaguely American South accent. Except for one scene in the anime, where her accent is thickened for comedic purposes.

* Sakura the Kyuubi-fox in ''[[Hyper Police]]'' has one of the thickest Kansei accents in all of anime. Even non-Japanese speakers can pick it out.

* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' English dub, the appropriately-named Osaka Naru was given a thick New York (specifically Brooklyn) accent. Despite the otherwise [[Macekre]] reputation of the dub, this is probably a fairly reasonable equivalent.

* Tina Foster in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' is an "American" who was raised in Hakata, Fukuoka, on Kyushu, southernmost of the main islands. She speaks in Hakata-ben, a dialect that varies even more from the Standard language than Kansai-ben. In English, as in some of the other examples here, she gets a cornpone southern accent.

* Keroberos from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. It's explained that the magical book he protects was stored in Osaka for an extended length of time, and he picked up the accent.