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Episode Game Center Shoujo to Ibunka Kouryuu • Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl - Episode 1 discussion

Game Center Shoujo to Ibunka Kouryuu, episode 1

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of Japanese people will be watching this anime to learn English alongside Renji.

The language barrier between Renji and Lily will undoubtedly lead to more misunderstandings, but it’s a fun dynamic!

You know that Lily is from a proper British family, given that mom asked her daughter to join her for a cup of tea.

Despite being an American, Sally Amaki (Lily’s VA) has pulled off a British accent relatively well. A part of me did wish that Lily had been given a thick dialect from Northern England instead of a posh one.

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u/Frontier246 Jul 06 '25

I love how the first emphasis that she's British is her uttering a "Bloody Hell!" because there's nothing more British than that (well, other than drinking tea).

This show is picture perfect proof that a language barrier isn't a barrier against flirting or falling for that special someone.

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 06 '25

because there’s nothing more British than that

I mean, she still hasn’t pulled out a knife. So maybe Lily isn’t all that British after all?

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u/Tppcrpg Jul 07 '25

She doesn't have a knife loicense

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u/carlosrarutos3 Jul 07 '25

But she has a lolicense

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u/Slepnair Jul 07 '25

not like she's supposed to be a jordie

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u/linkinstreet Jul 07 '25

Either that or "Oi wanker!"

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u/ThrowCarp Jul 07 '25

I love how the first emphasis that she's British is her uttering a "Bloody Hell!" because there's nothing more British than that (well, other than drinking tea).

It reminded me of the British girls from KanColle lmao

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u/Mudders_Milk_Man Jul 07 '25

This has no romance tag anywhere I'm looking, only comedy.

Do they actually have a romance? I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. The guy is an 18 year old college student, and the girl is 13. So... yikes.

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u/edliu111 Jul 28 '25

Welcome to anime? Not that I endorse it but yeah it's relatively common 😭

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u/bakaa_ningen https://myanimelist.net/profile/Otaku_Agent008 Jul 06 '25

I believe Garnt said that connor(cdawgVA) helped her practice the English accent, maybe we would see a more refined brit accent in the later episodes

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u/IanAndrewsFTW Jul 07 '25

i mean if she was taught by Connor she's going to end up more Welsh then anything.

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u/bakaa_ningen https://myanimelist.net/profile/Otaku_Agent008 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Tbh he's just welsh by ethnicity but english at heart, and most people are talking in english there since ages now

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u/mianghuei Aug 02 '25

They just talked about it in the latest Trash Taste podcast when they had her in as a guest again!

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u/Past_Distribution144 Jul 06 '25

I fully expected it to be the usual Japanese person speaking English, always trying their best but still it's always so botched.. Unexpected surprise to hear proper English, and with a British accent no less.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

I fully thought it WAS a Japanese person, etc. The accent is awful. You're not British, are you?

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u/Past_Distribution144 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Well, it very obviously is meant to be a British accent, everyone can hear it's meant to be a British accent.. therefor, they are infact doing a great job.

Give it a couple more episodes; she has barely spoken yet.

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u/fakeport https://myanimelist.net/profile/Fakeport Jul 07 '25

It sounds like exactly what it is, an American doing what they think a British accent sounds like. Probably perfectly acceptable for the Japanese and American audiences, but unfortunately an actual Brit it sounds uncanny and offputting as fuck.

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u/wloff Jul 07 '25

It sounds like exactly what it is, an American doing what they think a British accent sounds like.

To me, it sounds like she's intentionally trying to speak English with a Japanese accent. Maybe it's that she's trying to make her English sound more... familiar? palatable? to Japanese audiences, or maybe it's because she's doing her kawaii anime voice which makes it sound kinda funny.

(When she speaks English normally, her voice is at least half an octave lower than when she speaks Japanese, which is normal and very common but always interesting.)

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u/RuddyPeanut Jul 07 '25

This was this impression I got. The English accent was occasionally lost, occasionally emphasised and overall there was the tone of a Japanese person speaking English in the way of a student who hasn't yet learned you can slur all the consonants and vowels and syllables together. Also some odd inflection.

I do not blame Sally Amaki for this at all - I expect she will have been directed to sound like this for the reason you mentioned: so Japanese viewers can better understand the English parts as they are closer to how native Japanese people would learn to speak English in their classes.

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u/chowellvta Jul 07 '25

as much as I love the VA Sally in her other english-speaking roles, I agree it would've been better to have someone who can do a natural-sounding accent from SOMEWHERE in the UK. Heck, even if they're american but grew up watching a lot of Monty Python and Top Gear (this is what I did). I've read elsewhere that CdawgVA is "instructing" her on how to improve her accent, but there's only so much you can do

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u/Freakjob_003 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

I'm late to this show (and it's cute as heck!) and I only learned about Sally's credentials fairly recently, so, honest question:

Are there any bilingual British/Japanese VAs this could have gone to? From what I understand, Sally is kind of a rarity? If not, how often would a Japanese production company outsource to an external VA for this type of show?

I know there's that one VA from Girls Und Panzer who's fluent in both Russian and Japanese, Uesaka Sumire(?), but I'm otherwise unaware of any shows or characters that have a similar language barrier dynamic.

Well, Okinawan Girl, which is just a strong regional dialect and was on my radar, which I now need to check out because this dynamic was adorable.

Quick edit: I was double-checking her history and saw that she voiced Chloe, the American girl that Kanna saves from being kidnapped in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Perfect fit!

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u/chowellvta Jul 12 '25

I wish there were. I'm sure there's bilingual VAs OUT there, but the fact that anime production companies tend to draw from the same pool of VAs (and the general wariness to foreigners in Japan) probably makes it hard for them to break into the scene. The only one I know is Connor Colquhoun (CDawgVA), but he rarely voice acts anymore, and if anything is more on the video game side of voice acting. It's a shame, I've ALWAYS wanted to know what an authentic British accent sounds like in Japanese. I loved Sayaka Ohara putting on an accent for Carol's mom in Tomo-chan Is A Girl, but I'm pretty sure it's still just an impression of a British accent

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u/aetkas001 Jul 15 '25

Shu Uchida is in this show and she's Australian/Japanese.

Yes Australian isn't British but it's bloody closer than an American

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u/IceSmiley Jul 07 '25

I thought she was supposed to be American until they said she was from England :P

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u/DeadLazy_Vanguard Jul 25 '25

For me, it was the accent constantly changing between that cutesy-anime-American and posh British that was hard to tell where she was supposed to be from.

She did okay, but I would definitely not say she did a great job.

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u/shewy92 Aug 05 '25

Sally Amaki is American so that's probably why you thought her accent was weird.

Sally was Carol in Tomo-chan is a Girl and did both the Dub and Sub voice since her and the character spoke both languages.

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u/derekschroer https://anilist.co/user/RareKumiko Jul 06 '25

Lily's mom is voiced by the same VA that voiced Alice Cartelet in Kin'iro Mosaic, who was also Blond and British

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u/entinio Jul 06 '25

Didn’t she actually spend most her time in Australia?

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 07 '25

I’d thought so at first too, but couldn’t find anything about this when I checked her wikipedia page. We might’ve been confusing her with Shu Uchida.

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u/LegendRazgriz Jul 07 '25

No, that was Shu Uchida (Mia from Love Live Nijigasaki)

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u/ThrowCarp Jul 07 '25

You're thinking of Shu Uchida (best girl btw).

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u/chowellvta Jul 07 '25

ITS FUCKING SALLY???!?!?!?!? FUCK YEAH HELL YEAH I LOVE HER PERFORMANCES IN TOMO-CHAN IS A GIRL AND I HAVENT SEEN HER VOICE ANYTHING SINCE

agreed tho, wish they gave her more "bugger off"-s and "cor blimey"-s as well

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u/Shantotto11 Jul 07 '25

Sally Amaki

By any chance, was English her second language? There was just a way that she spoke that seemed a little stilted, similar to Vegeta’s VA doing Hattori Heiji’s English dialogue in Detective Conan. Just the way she delivered certain lines felt distracting to the ear, but that might be because she’s also trying to imitate a UK accent on top of it?

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u/p1zzashark Jul 07 '25

Yeah sounded super stilted to me. Her English sounds quite good in podcasts like pretty much completely natural but I don’t know what they are doing for voice directing.

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Jul 07 '25

I don’t know what they are doing for voice directing.

Sally was probably instructed to sound “cute”, hence that it comes across as a bit forced at times. That said, I didn’t think it was bad by any standards.

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u/HeliosAlpha Jul 07 '25

It's most likely done to match audience expectations. Lily seems to be done as a Japanese person's idea of the idyllic British girl. That also makes it come off as weird to English speakers

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u/zadcap Jul 07 '25

Born and grew up in America, moved to Japan in her teens. I think she was struggling more with the accent than the language, yeah.

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u/linkinstreet Jul 07 '25

Watching her youtube videos were funny because the Japanese subtitles underneath mosstly glossed over what she's actually saying in English

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u/Freakjob_003 Jul 12 '25

I'm late to this show (and it's frigging adorable), but I wanted to shout out Sally's podcast: Anime English Club with Sally Amaki. It's been very fun to listen to!

Anime English Club is a podcast, where we use anime as a bridge to help connect our listeners to the English world.

Each episode we explore a different line or scene from an anime and discuss how you would say it in English.

This show is hosted by Sally Amaki, a voice actor and idol born in the U.S. and lives in Japan. Hope it can also be a tool for everyone to learn and enjoy English!

So far, she's focused on Haikyuu!!, Ouran High School Club, Oshi No Ko, and now Tokyo Revengers.

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u/athrun_1 Jul 08 '25

Born and grew up in america. She wanted to be a VA, so she goes back to Japan to practice her Japanese there.

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u/ThrowCarp Jul 07 '25

Despite being an American, Sally Amaki (Lily’s VA) has pulled off a British accent relatively well. A part of me did wish that Lily had been given a thick dialect from Northern England instead of a posh one.

I was literally about to ask who the VA is, but now that you point it out, I can kinda hear Cotton Candy's voice here and there.

And you're right, she nailed that British accent despite being from Los Angeles.

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u/Glittering_Tax4979 Aug 04 '25

I just watched it in dub and sub and it was earlier to watch in sub because it makes more sense when they're an actual language barrier than one character starts speaking an a different an accent.