>>I guess it's a bit easier with ships like
>>Ryūjō, who speaks in
>>Kansai-ben, because most translators decided ages ago that the English
>>equivalent is a Southern accent.
>
>Hang on, isn't that the Osaka dialect? I thought the pop analog for
>that was the Bugs Bunny/Groucho Marx/Harley Quinn Bensonhurst accent.
>I'm so out of touch.

I've often thought it was a shame that anime is dubbed into American and not British English. Translating the Tokyo accent as RP, and Kansai-ben as Scouse or Geordie, would be much more accurate...