>The problem with the English is not exactly bad pronunciation - it's very, very clear that it was originally Japanese that was translated due to the use of phrases
>and such that are common in Japanese but don't occur in English. On top of that, the problems in pronunciation are mostly accent and stress rather than
>classic "Japanese pronunciation" issues (inability to pronounce certain consonants, adding vowels between consonants and at the end of words, etc.). >
>It's clear that they are trying but absolutely never thought of hiring an actual fucking native English speaker, despite the fact that they could find
>literally hundreds of them in Tokyo alone who would probably be willing to work for peanuts.
>
>Honestly, I hate to say it, but this show is a great example of Japan's "occidentalism" of the West.
>
>I want to go over there and yell, "Meet some fucking gaijin, they live in your cities for christ's sake, they aren't that hard to find!"
>But Hollywood does the same shit with every "eastern" thing it ever touches too, despite having a Chinatown AND a Little Tokyo AND fucking every
>single ethnic group living nearby.
