History Main / AnimeAccentAbsence

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* More HumongousMecha accent weirdness: In ''Anime/{{Xabungle}}'', Jiron's voice sounds like it's supposed to be something other than standard Japanese, though it's hard to say what. In the FanTranslation of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Gaiden'', most of the Xabungle characters' dialogue is rendered into English as a sort of generic Southwestern American dialect to fit the series' Wild West theme. The strange thing is that, at least according to SRW, ''Xabungle'' takes place in former Eurasia & Africa, while the two AfterTheEnd ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' shows (''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' & ''Anime/TurnAGundam'') take place in North America with X in the northern US & Canada (despite being the one with a secondary character named Tex) & Turn A south of the Mason-Dixon.

** Also generally averted in the dub of season 1, where most of the characters are given the appropriate accent. However, Stroheim has an Austrian accent instead of the German one he's supposed to have. Played straight in the dub of Stardust Crusaders, however, where Joseph lost his accent.

** In the English cast commentary for the movie, they explain at least why they decided not to attempt German accents, and it can be assumed that they chose not to go with British or any other sort of accent for similar reasons.
*** In the final episode of the first anime, one German character who appeared in the movie ''does'' have the accent, as a matter of fact.

** A completely unintentional SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}: Father Anderson's Japanese voice actor. The fact that he doesn't speak with an accent can be lost on someone not fluent in the language, but when he first confronts Alucard he tries to ''speak English with an Irish accent'' with an inconceivably thick Japanese accent overtop of it. The badassery of the moment devolved into fits of laughter... At least until he got to the [[CatchPhrase AAAAAAMMMEEENNNNN!!!]]

* In ''Anime/MassuguNiIkou'' Jack is an English dog who supposedly is only just learning Japanese. Not only does he speak it well (though he has some grammatical issues), when he speaks English he has a Japanese accent so thick you could cut it with a knife, as well as mixing up his grammar (using "me" when a native English speaker would use "I," for example). Jack, however, has a noticeable accent while speaking Japanese.

* In ''Massugu ni Ikou'' Jack is an English dog who supposedly is only just learning Japanese. Not only does he speak it well, when he speaks English he has a Japanese accent so thick you could cut it with a knife, as well as mixing up his grammar (using "me" when a native English speaker would use "I," for example).

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-->'''Terriermon:''' Wallace was always with that Japanese person.

** A completely unintentional CrowningMomentOfFunny: Father Anderson's Japanese voice actor. The fact that he doesn't speak with an accent can be lost on someone not fluent in the language, but when he first confronts Alucard he tries to ''speak English with an Irish accent'' with an inconceivably thick Japanese accent overtop of it. The badassery of the moment devolved into fits of laughter... At least until he got to the [[CatchPhrase AAAAAAMMMEEENNNNN!!!]]

* Despite LightNovel/{{Baccano}} taking place in Prohibition-era New York and including characters that have French and Eastern European names among others, all the characters in the original speak fluent Japanese. One of the reasons the dub is considered so [[SuperlativeDubbing universally good]] is that it provides a variety of accents to the characters, including an impressively broad array of regional accents from New York and other East Coast states.

** Also generally averted in the dub of season 1, where most of the characters are given the appropriate accent. However, Stroheim has an Austrian accent instead of the German one he's supposed to have.

* In ''PowerStone'', a series of [[FightingGame fighting games]] for Dreamcast (and later PSP), the characters are from different countries and nationalities, but they speak Japanese.

** This gets particularly {{Egregious}} in an episode featuring a group of foreigners living in Japan. They all speak flawless Japanese, aside from the [[OccidentalOtaku Israeli otaku]], who doesn’t just speak with a foreign accent, it sounds ''nothing'' like an Israeli accent.

* ''{{Freelancer}}'' is an interesting reversal of this trope, where Junko speaks perfect English despite being [[strike:Japanese]] [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Kusarian]].

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has several British characters employed by [=MI6=]. November 11 in particular speaks perfect Japanese, which is fine, but when he says something in heavily Japanese-accented GratuitousEnglish, it's... jarring. Thankfully, TroyBaker went and fixed that with an excellent FakeBrit accent in the dub.

The use of accents was significantly cut back in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and completely (and jarringly) eliminated in ''MetalGearSolid4'', which is set in a number of worldwide locations where absolutely everyone speaks completely unaccented Japanese/American English. When playing through such RippedFromTheHeadlines locales as "the Middle East" and "South America", this starts to feel especially weird.

* Played straight in ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'', where Alice, who's lived in Japan for longer than Karen, is more fluent than her, although Karen's fluency often depends on whether or not it's relevant to the sketch. Whenever either of them speaks in English, however, it's amusingly terrible.

* In ''ShamanKing'', the entire cast outside of a rather minimal amount of characters are not Japanese, even more so when they move for the majority of the series to America. Despite characters being from a great deal of countries, and despite covering a great deal of specific dialects within that, there is little effort made to distinguish them with voice. Foreign characters speak in fluent, if not at times refined, Japanese except for random sprinklings of their native languages (consisting of perhaps a word or two, maybe a sentence; though this is mostly used for minor characters, and is dropped when the character becomes more important plot-wise). This wouldn't have been such a point of contention were it not for the fact that the vast majority of said international cast had only about a week to realize that they needed to learn Japanese at all; and even then would only have had to use it for a period of maybe 2 weeks.

* In ''Videogame/BlackAndWhite'', every character in the game, regardless of their assumed tribe (ranging from Norse to Aztec to Japanese) speaks in [[BritishAccents one of several delightfully varied accents from the British isles]].

** [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari]] who is part-British, doesn't have an accent either. Then again, since little is known about her backstory and she is more comfortable thinking in Japanese (which is why she had the EVA's interface set to Japanese in her first battle), [[JustifiedTrope she might've spent more time in Japan or something like that.]] However, she does get to speak English briefly in one scene, and depending on you much you're willing to suspend disbelief, you could kinda convince your brain that it sorta sounds like a British accent.

** The English release of the manga, however, goes ''too'' far to avoid this trope: All characters who were not born on English soil speak with accents so thick and indecipherable that that they make [[ArchieComics Mr. Svenson]] sound like Tony Jay. Since something like 80% of the rather expansive cast qualify as "foreigners" to some extent or another, this makes reading the English releases a rather interesting experience.

* Eri and Sarah of ''SchoolRumble'', who are both from Britain. Eri may be an aversion, since she occasionally mixes up Japanese homonyms.