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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/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