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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/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.