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Dumb n00b question: Why do the leads have such cheesy over-done "Southern Fried" accents? Being from the south I find it absolutely ludicrous that 2 children from Japan would have accents like that.
It's from Gainax, so I know it has a larger meaning, but I can grasp it.
Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:22 am
Nobuyuki
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
Post subject: Re: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
liberator wrote:
Anybody know anything about it?
It's 13 episodes long, and animated by Gainax (FLCL) and Madhouse (Ninja Scroll, among others). Think Sliders meets Excel Saga.
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Dumb n00b question: Why do the leads have such cheesy over-done "Southern Fried" accents? Being from the south I find it absolutely ludicrous that 2 children from Japan would have accents like that.
Don't think of them as southern so much as southwestern. It's a directorial decision to represent the regional Japanese Osaka-ben dialect that a majority of the characters speak in. Since they live in a large urban western Japan city, the English-language adapters chose to use their own large urban western US city dialect (specifically: Houston, TX).
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:37 am
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I don't really like or dislike it, it's just strange.
Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:45 am
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liberator wrote:
I don't really like or dislike it, it's just strange.
Well, the idea is to get across the same connotation that Osaka-ben carries - namely, that the character is from the sticks. (IIRC, Son Goku in Dragon Ball spoke in Osaka-ben, as does Osaka-chan from Azumanga Daioh (which is why she is also dubbed with a Southern accent.) )
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:21 am
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It's helpful to use the practice if it's part of the character's distinction among the other cast members, and to carry any dialogue-based humor along. But only if used well. *Love Hina shudder*
Thankfully for most fans' sanity , adding accents isn't standard practice.
Otherwise SaiKano might have sounded like Fargo. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
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