History Main / TheIdiotFromOsaka

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga, who was branded with the "Osaka" nickname by [[GenkiGirl Tomo]] simply for being from Osaka. However, the humor in Osaka's character lay in how she ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' act like her required stereotype: She's still not exactly bright, but she's an earnest, daydreaming airhead [[CloudCuckoolander who's prone to strange thoughts]], not a brash money-grubber; and she also didn't even speak in the stereotypical KansaiRegionalDialect, until she caved under Yukari's stubborn insistence that there's no need to "force" herself to speak in standard Japanese. Osaka is often teased for not saying things that a stereotypical person from Osaka should say. To top it off, she's not even a native Osakan; she was born in Wakayama and only lived in Osaka for a year. In the [[Creator/ADVFilms ADV Manga]] English translation, "Osaka" is apparently analogized to working-class Philadelphia (the dub of the anime recasts the accent as Texan, and the Creator/YenPress translation likewise gives her a Southern accent). They even lampshade the naming in the show. She is actually listed in school under the name "Osaka", and laments that people keep viewing her that way.

* ''Manga/GaiGin'': Mentioned when Gin is planning to meet some netfriends in Osaka. According to her sources they [[KansaiRegionalAccent talk with a weird dialect]] and "Oh yeah, they are all ''completely insane''." When we meet him, though, the Kansai-born Pyon is perfectly intelligent and nice, despite a childish sense of humour (he takes delight in learning the meaning of the English word "boogers").

* ''Music/HypnosisMic'': Sasara Nurude and Rosho Tsutsujimori of Dotsuitare Honpo, ''boke'' and ''tsukkomi'' respectively (and Sasara is ''boke'' to Samatoki during their time as Mad Comic Dialogue). Sasara is the one who fits the trope best, having the most overt KansaiRegionalAccent, his occasional tendency to play the fool to lighten the mood and his beckoning cat/''koban'' speakers bringing to mind the concept of someone who likes to make money. Rosho also has the accent when angered.

* ''Manga/{{Kodocha}}'': Fuuka Matsui ''seems'' to be this since she's as hyper as Sana Kurata and she lived for years in Osaka ([[KansaiRegionalAccent and even has the accent]]). But she's an aversion in the end, since she's also smart, athletic and popular enough to be TheAce of the story.

* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Spiderman is a living parody of Osaka people: KansaiRegionalAccent? Check! Very greedy and materialistic? Check! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Likes a lot of Takoyaki?]]. Check!

In anime and manga, a comedy-relief character who is intended to be perceived as a foil for the protagonist will almost always be an [[TheDitz idiot]], is [[LargeHam loud and passionate]], shows open and rude disregard to the rules of JapanesePoliteness, enjoy drinking and fighting, be incredibly cheap (yet always broke), and will almost always speak with a KansaiRegionalAccent instantly recognizable to native speakers of Japanese. (In North American dubs, a Kansai/Osaka accent is usually [[AccentAdaptation rendered as]] either a [[HalfWittedHillbilly Deep South/Redneck accent]] or a [[BrooklynRage heavy Brooklyn accent]]--the cultural connotations overlap sufficiently in either case that this works.)

In anime it is not merely a [[JapaneseMediaTropes trope]] but a {{cliche}}. {{Truth in Television}} in the sense that it is a RealLife stereotype. Usually, when someone from Kansai comes to Tokyo, he adopts a standard Tokyo dialect. Someone who insists on speaking Kansai dialect in Tokyo will be looked at as if he were some sort of LowerClassLout.

* ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': Inverted with Nanami Aoyama. She's from Osaka and also the OnlySaneWoman in Sakura Hall.

* In the [[AccentAdaptation Japanese dubs]] of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movies, the eponymous character (played with a Scottish accent in English), voiced by [[Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Masatoshi Hamada]], is given a Kansai accent to match his violent, crude, and temperamental personality (as supposedly the Scottish accent does as well).

* ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'': [[Creator/RyoHorikawa Tadao Yokoshima]] whose brain is mostly [[LovableSexManiac: filled with girls]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Asuka Kazama. She can back up her bravado, to a degree, but is hot headed to a fault and quick to jump conclusions.

In anime and manga, a comedy-relief character who is intended to be perceived as a foil for the protagonist will almost always be an [[AsianAirhead idiot]], is [[LargeHam loud and passionate]], shows open and rude disregard to the rules of JapanesePoliteness, enjoy drinking and fighting, be incredibly cheap (yet always broke), and will almost always speak with a KansaiRegionalAccent instantly recognizable to native speakers of Japanese. (In North American dubs, a Kansai/Osaka accent is usually [[AccentAdaptation rendered as]] either a [[HalfWittedHillbilly Deep South/Redneck accent]] or a [[BrooklynRage heavy Brooklyn accent]]--the cultural connotations overlap sufficiently in either case that this works.)

Compare EagleLand (especially the Boorish variety), DeepSouth, EverythingIsBigInTexas, OnlyInFlorida, the SmallTownTyrant, GoodOlBoy, HalfWittedHillbilly (especially the Country Bumpkin, Backwoods Bigot and Inbred Ignoramus varieties) and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage (plus the BigRottenApple), {{Joisey}} and {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common. Also compare ViolentGlaswegian, OopNorth, DublinSkanger and FightingIrish for its UK counterparts.

Compare EagleLand (especially the Boorish variety), DeepSouth, EverythingIsBigInTexas, OnlyInFlorida, the SmallTownTyrant, HalfWittedHillbilly (especially the Country Bumpkin, Backwoods Bigot and Inbred Ignoramus varieties) and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage (plus the BigRottenApple), {{Joisey}} or {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common. Also compare ViolentGlaswegian, DublinSkanger and FightingIrish for its UK counterparts.

* ''Manga/ItazuraNaKiss'': Kinnosuke.

* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'': [[Creator/RyoHorikawa Tadao Yokoshima]] whose brain is mostly [[LovableSexManiac: filled with girls]].

* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'': [[Creator/RyoHorikawa Tadao Yokoshima]].

* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': Rika may count, consider her StalkerWithACrush tract on Ishinose Kazuya.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'': The shopkeeper Shilleka.

Compare EagleLand (especially the Boorish variety), EverythingIsBigInTexas, the SmallTownTyrant, HalfWittedHillbilly (especially the Country Bumpkin, Backwoods Bigot and Inbred Ignoramus varieties) and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage or {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common.

Compare EagleLand (especially the Boorish variety), EverythingIsBigInTexas, the SmallTownTyrant, HalfWittedHillbilly and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage or {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common.

Compare EagleLand (especially the Boorish variety), the SmallTownTyrant, HalfWittedHillbilly and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage or {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common.

* ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'': Sasshi is not just ''from'' Osaka -- he ''lives in'' Osaka. When not hopping worlds back and forth, that is. He's still an [[IdiotHero idiot]] though.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Osaka. Her name isn't Osaka; it's Ayumu Kasuga, but [[GenkiGirl Tomo]] branded her with the nickname for being from Osaka. Like Sakaki, however, the humor in Osaka's character lay in how she ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' act like her required stereotype: She's still not exactly bright, but she's an earnest, daydreaming airhead [[CloudCuckoolander who's prone to strange thoughts]], not a brash money-grubber; and she also didn't even speak in the stereotypical KansaiRegionalDialect, until she caved under Yukari's stubborn insistence that there's no need to "force" herself to speak in standard Japanese. Osaka is often teased for not saying things that a stereotypical person from Osaka should say. In the [[Creator/ADVFilms ADV Manga]] English translation, "Osaka" is apparently analogized to working-class Philadelphia (the dub of the anime recasts the accent as Texan, and the Creator/YenPress translation likewise gives her a Southern accent). They even lampshade the naming in the show. She is actually listed in school under the name "Osaka", and laments that people keep viewing her that way.

* ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'': Invoked. Goro Majima is a Tokyo yakuza boss also known as "the Mad Dog of Shimano", and, as part of his mercurial, ultraviolent and goofy-in-a-the-Joker-sort-of-way persona, affects a Kansai accent thick enough to cut with a knife. However, this is very much a deliberate act; Majima is a complete nutter and approaches problems in ways that make no sense to anyone else, but there is method to his madness and his solutions, unorthodox and zany as they are, ''always'' work. Also, one of the first signs that [[LetsGetDangerous things are about to get real]] is that Majima drops the accent.

In anime and manga, a comedy-relief character who is intended to be perceived as a foil for the protagonist will almost always be an idiot, is [[LargeHam loud and passionate]], shows open and rude disregard to the rules of JapanesePoliteness, enjoy drinking and fighting, be incredibly cheap (yet always broke), and will almost always speak with a KansaiRegionalAccent instantly recognizable to native speakers of Japanese. (In North American dubs, a Kansai/Osaka accent is usually [[AccentAdaptation rendered as]] either a [[HalfWittedHillbilly Deep South/Redneck accent]] or a [[BrooklynRage heavy Brooklyn accent]]--the cultural connotations overlap sufficiently in either case that this works.)

In anime and manga, a comedy-relief character who is intended to be perceived as a foil for the protagonist will almost always be an idiot, is [[LargeHam loud and passionate]], shows open and rude disregard to the rules of JapanesePoliteness, enjoy drinking and fighting, be incredibly cheap (yet always broke), and will almost always speak with a KansaiRegionalAccent instantly recognizable to native speakers of Japanese. (In North American dubs, a Kansai/Osaka accent is usually [[AccentAdaptation rendered as]] either a [[SouthernFriedPrivate Deep South/Redneck accent]] or a [[BrooklynRage heavy Brooklyn accent]]--the cultural connotations overlap sufficiently in either case that this works.)

Compare EagleLand, the CorruptHick and SouthernFriedPrivate for its North American counterparts. Potentially compare also BrooklynRage or {{Southies}}, as Noo Yawk goon or Bahstin townie translations are also fairly common.

** In a meta-example, some of the character's behavior in the [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Generation II games]] becomes somewhat amusing when you remember that [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Johto is Kansai]].

* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Spiderman is a living parody of Osaka people: KansaiRegionalAccent? Check! Very Greedy and materialistic? Check! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Likes a lot of Takoyaki?]]. Check!

* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'': The Osaka team takes the "idiot" in the trope to the logical extreme. Almost all of them are AxCrazy TriggerHappy [[HumansAreBastards bastards]] that behave more like {{Eagle Land}}ers, and [[spoiler: their complete lack of TeamSpirit gets them brutally slaughtered]].

In anime it is not merely a [[JapaneseMediaTropes trope]] but a {{cliche}}. {{Truth in Television}} in the sense that it is a RealLife stereotype. Usually, when someone from Kansai comes to Tokyo, he adopts a Tokyo accent. Someone who insists on speaking Kansai in Tokyo will be looked at as if he were some sort of LowerClassLout.

* ''Alien vs. Ninja'': Nezumi is a textbook example, albeit a live-action one.* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Osaka. Her name isn't Osaka; it's Ayumu Kasuga, but [[GenkiGirl Tomo]] branded her with the nickname for being from Osaka. Like Sakaki, however, the humor in Osaka's character lay in how she ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' act like her required stereotype: She's still not exactly bright, but she's an earnest, daydreaming airhead [[CloudCuckoolander who's prone to strange thoughts]], not a brash money-grubber; and she also didn't even speak in the stereotypical KansaiRegionalDialect, until she caved under Yukari's stubborn insistence that there's no need to "force" herself to speak in standard Japanese. Osaka is often teased for not saying things that a stereotypical person from Osaka should say. In the [[Creator/ADVFilms ADV Manga]] English translation, "Osaka" is apparently analogized to working-class Philadelphia (the dub of the anime recasts the accent as Texan, and the Creator/YenPress translation likewise gives her a Southern accent). They even lampshade the naming in the show. She is actually listed in school under the name "Osaka", and laments that people keep viewing her that way.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Osaka. Her name isn't Osaka; it's Ayumu Kasuga, but [[GenkiGirl Tomo]] branded her with the nickname for being from Osaka. Like Sakaki, however, the humor in Osaka's character lay in how she ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' act like her required stereotype: She's still not exactly bright, but she's an earnest, daydreaming airhead [[CloudCuckoolander who's prone to strange thoughts]], not a brash money-grubber; and she also didn't even speak in the stereotypical KansaiRegionalDialect, until she caved under Yukari's stubborn insistence that there's no need to "force" herself to speak in standard Japanese. Osaka is often teased for not saying things that a stereotypical person from Osaka should say. In the [[Creator/ADVFilms ADV Manga]] English translation, "Osaka" is apparently analogized to working-class Philadelphia (the dub of the anime recasts the accent as Texan, and the Creator/YenPress translation likewise gives her a Southern accent). They even lampshade the naming in the show. She is actually listed in school under the name "Osaka", and laments that people keep viewing her that way.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Toji Suzuhara is somewhat of a subversion. On the surface he fits the stereotype by being brash and short-tempered, but on the other hand it also turns out that he is amongst the most mentally stable and moral members of the cast. The English translation of the manga exchanges his Osaka accent for a Brooklyn one. Notably, the {{Self Parody}}ing AudioPlay, ''AudioPlay/EvangelionAfterTheEnd'', has Asuka outright insulting him by calling him a "country bumpkin".
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
** Played with. Kintarou Touyama is a very [[NoSocialSkills naive]] and over-imaginative WildChild who's also an excellent tennis player with ''fearsome'' physical strength and enough charm to befriend almost everyone he meets up with. The kid can even lift up ''small motorcycles'' with his bare hands, for crying it loud!
** On the other hand, this is subverted with the Oshitari cousins. Both [[Creator/HidenobuKiuchi Yuushi]] (from Hyoutei) and [[Creator/JunFukuyama Kenya]] (from Shitenhouji, meaning he's Kintarou's sempai) are from the Kansai area and use the accent... but they're fairly smart and more-or-less serious guys. Lampshaded when local PluckyComicRelief Hikaru "Dabide" Amane tries to get Yuushi roped ino the [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine typical Osaka humor routines]] with him, but Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny is VERY peeved]]. (Though it's highly likely that Yuushi was just playing along, as the ''[[StraightMan tsukkomi]]'' to Dabide's ''bokke''. And on the ''other'' other hand, Atobe ''does'' treat Yuushi as The Idiot from Osaka quite often (for instance, when he overheard Yuushi and Kenya getting into an extremely silly argument over the phone). In the spirit of fairness, other times Atobe turns around and acts as if he [[{{Tsundere}} (grudgingly)]] respects Yuushi's intelligence.
** Two of Kintarou's sempais, [[BadassBookworm Data player]] Koharu Konjiki and his partner Yuuji Hitouji, actually [[InvokedTrope use the "Osaka jokester" stereotype to their advantage in the courts]]; with their "Comedy Tennis" tactics, they manage to disrupt their rivals' concentration and get the upper hand.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ukyou Kuonji has the accent but few idiotic tendencies, rather being a {{bifauxnen}} workaholic (itself a Kansai stereotype, but a different one) with possible {{yandere}} tendencies.
* ''Manga/RealBoutHighSchool'': Shizuma Kusanagi is a pompous, HotBlooded showboat and is actually a little dim... however, he's a GeniusDitz music virtuoso, being particularly talented at guitar and piano but capable of playing almost any instrument competently. And the fact that he's from Kansai only comes up once.
* ''Manga/YakitateJapan'': Kyousuke Kawachi is occasionally referred to simply as "Kansai-ben" ("Kansai dialect") and is at one point openly mocked as being a comical side character only good for being excessively shocked at every little surprise.
* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'': Joker.
* ''Manga/GetBackers'': Emishi Haruki, the "Fresh Blood Joker". Also Natsuki Amon, who, it is explicitly mentioned, fakes an accent to come off as a cheerful buffoon.

* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'':
** Ken-chan and Meirin. The two even have a LampshadeHanging moment over how great it is to meet other Kansai people, even though neither of them comes from our actual universe.
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Oosawagi Natsumi (Lotta Hart in the localization) is a fiery tabloid photographer. Reportedly she was so much of an Osaka stereotype that one of the Osaka-born staff members took mild offense to her. In the localization she is from 'The Heartland' and speaks with an appropriate accent. Natsumi/Lotta often [[LampshadeHanging outright admits]] the fact that she is the walking embodiment of this trope and always fiercely tries to defend her homeland and de-power the stereotype by claiming that she's the only one who really fits the trope in Osaka/Rural America.
* ''Manga/AiKora'': Tsubame, the boisterous, hard-drinking, and slightly irresponsible HaremNanny, has a Kansai accent.
* ''Alien vs. Ninja'': Nezumi is a textbook example, albeit a live-action one.
* ''Anime/BeastWarsII'': Thrust and Dirge, a comedy duo. Also Diver.
* ''Anime/BurstAngel'': Takane Katsu and the other Osakan characters. A southern accent is used for the English dub.
* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'': Mostly averted by Makoto Souda, who is NOT an idiot but a CombatPragmatist. He ''does'' play up the HotBlooded and arrogant side of the stereotype, however. [[spoiler: And pays ''dearly'' for it when Napoleon provokes him into getting himself kicked out of the Japan vs. France game.]]
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': Zigzagged by Osaka detective Heiji Hattori, who is just as brilliant as the Tokyo-dwelling main character, and also has a number of special skills, such as sword-fighting skill. He's also portrayed as a lot more amiable and prone to perpetrate practical jokes than the main character, though he is oftentimes a very serious character. Even so, Hattori and his prospect girlfriend Kazuha are ''BOTH'' prone to occasional fits of stereotypical Osakan obnoxiousness. The Creator/VIZMedia translation of the manga gives Hattori, Kazuha, and the rest of their family and friends from Osaka stereotypical Southern U. S. accents. In the [[CulturalTranslation English dub]] of the anime, they're from Alberta.
* ''Manga/DagashiKashi'': Played with and subverted in one episode, in which Hotaru pretends to be from Osaka as part of one of her OnceAnEpisode [[CloudCuckooLander rambling rants]] about dagashi. She's even able to affect the accent, albeit only sporadically. The fact that she's an idiot to start with (or at the very least a CloudCuckooLander / [[TheDitz Ditz]]) makes it a very believable charade.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[GeniusDitz Misa]] [[Creator/AyaHirano Amane]] is from Kansai. Subverted because she doesn't speak in Osaka-ben, despite having lived in Osaka before she came into the plot; not that surprising since many people from the Kansai region learn to speak in the "Tokyoite accent" so as to fit in or at least to not stand out, and in Misa's case it's a ''vital'' necessity since she's a TeenIdol and needs to have a broad appeal.
* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'': The shopkeeper Shilleka.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Tasuki. And his {{Expy}} in ''Manga/AbsoluteBoyfriend'', the salesman Gaku Namikiri.
* ''Manga/GaiGin'': Mentioned when Gin is planning to meet some netfriends in Osaka. According to her sources they [[KansaiRegionalAccent talk with a weird dialect]] and "Oh yeah, they are all ''completely insane''." When we meet him, though, the Kansai-born Pyon is perfectly intelligent and nice, despite a childish sense of humour (he takes delight in learning the meaning of the English word "boogers").
* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'': The Osaka team takes the "idiot" in the trope to the logical extreme. Almost all of them are AxCrazy TriggerHappy [[HumansAreBastards bastards]] that behave more like {{Eagle Land}}ers, and [[spoiler: their complete lack of TeamSpirit gets them brutally slaughtered]].
* ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'': Minoru Uesugi, aka Green Racer, is depicted as hailing from Osaka. Similar to the ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' example above for Philip, this may be an ActorAllusion as Minoru's actor, Yoshihiro Fukuda, is also from Osaka.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': Invoked by Jameson, the CEO of a company that specializes in cloning organs for transplants, has a very exaggerated Osaka accent and "good old country boy" mannerism (rendered as a corny Texas accent in the English dub) that the Major immediately notes as being absurdly fake.
* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'': [[Creator/RyoHorikawa Tadao Yokoshima]].
* ''Anime/GingaEKickoff'': Erika is from Osaka, and proud of it. She's a loud {{tomboy}} and a natural comedian.
* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'': The brash and talkative Naniwa Tiger Takeshi Sendo. He's from Osaka, has a thick accent (and is voiced [[Creator/MasayaOnosaka by an Osaka native]]), boxes because he loves to fight strong men, and used to be a gang leader in high school... to protect other people from harmful gangs. His grandmother's nickname for him is "idiot".
* ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'': Maido-kun/Howdy is the lower-class, goofy, practical joker of the group. He speaks with a Kansai dialect in the Japanese version and with a Southern American accent in the English version.
* ''Manga/HanaKimi'': Shuichi Nakatsu and his garishly dressed mother who is absolute comic relief.
* ''Manga/TheHatingGirl'': Ryouji's ex, Towa Naoko. She's rather boorish and overbearing, and seems to enjoy taunting Asumi in the chapter where they first meet.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Sakuya Aizawa sees life as one huge BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** [[Creator/GoInoue Spain]] speaks and acts like this. Although he's definitely not from Osaka.
** Actually ''averted'' with the guy who represents the Osaka prefecture, who is kind of a keet but ''not'' an idiot.
* ''Music/HypnosisMic'': Sasara Nurude and Rosho Tsutsujimori of Dotsuitare Honpo, ''boke'' and ''tsukkomi'' respectively (and Sasara is ''boke'' to Samatoki during their time as Mad Comic Dialogue). Sasara is the one who fits the trope best, having the most overt KansaiRegionalAccent, his occasional tendency to play the fool to lighten the mood and his beckoning cat/''koban'' speakers bringing to mind the concept of someone who likes to make money. Rosho also has the accent when angered.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': Rika may count, consider her StalkerWithACrush tract on Ishinose Kazuya.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Kintaros isn't actually from Osaka, but speaks the dialect. And while he's not an idiot, he is kind of TheDitz; in his spotlight story arc, his contractor wanted to become the best karate-ka he could, so Kintaros trained his body...with Sumo. And didn't realize it until a couple of preteen boys told him.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': Akiko Narumi, whose foolishness comes more from being somewhat sheltered and being the AudienceSurrogate, emigrating to Fuuto in the first episode. Her father [[HardboiledDetective Sokichi]] thoroughly averts this, though it's unclear if he was Osakan or if his family simply lived there. Making it even funnier, a MonsterOfTheWeek puts Akiko in an ImagineSpot which transplants the plot to Osaka, including [[TheSmartGuy Philip]] and [[SixthRanger Ryu Terui]] transformed into stereotypical lazy Osakans while [[TheHero Shotaro]] is the FishOutOfWater transplant from the big city. In Philip's case it may be an ActorAllusion, as Masaki Suda actually ''is'' from Osaka.
* ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'': Nishiki from TheMovie, in keeping with the five movie Riders' Location Theming.