Why Don't Galarian People Have Accents?

[@TreyC68]

I’m fine with the Masters accents except for Gloria since she isn’t speaking incomprehensible Scottish

[@GatorEX]

Lmao 😂

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Headcanons will forever just be headcanons

[@TreyC68]

@@dirckthedork-knight1201 Curses

[@laurendynes6289]

As a Scottish person, i totally agree

[@Asi-Ender]

Still mad about that honestly

[@hephsforge9236]

Honestly, you could say the same for Alola in terms of game text having the intent of conveying a very particular accent and dialect.

[@GatorEX]

Yep. And also with Kalos before that. Just makes things more noticeable now that Pokémon Masters does voice acting for all characters, making things inconsistent with the anime and web animations.

[@hephsforge9236]

@@GatorEX BW/B2W2 really dropped the ball not having a main character say “ey I’m walkin’ ‘ere, could have joined the club. I’m curious if Japanese region characters keep the dialects consistent across the regions, in particular if there are any different versions of Kamado from Legends that has the two dialects he speaks in that are supposed to relate to Kanto/Johto and Sinnoh respectively and if those dialects are also displayed in other characters.

[@shistershister5654]

I live in Hawaii and I would give anything to hear a Pokemon character speaking pidgin lol

[@hephsforge9236]

@@shistershister5654 same lol, I’m from Hawaii too, love Alola but would have been even cooler

[@pixelatedmess9269]

​@@hephsforge9236 In the Japanese versions of the games a good chunk of characters speak in regional dialects, it's most noticeable in the Johto games since the Kansai dailect is pretty recognizable, but you do see it across the franchise. My favorite being the American Rocket grunt you meet in the postgame for GSC/HGSS that shows up again in Unova. Him, Lt.Surge, and Fantina all speak in broken Japanese mixed with english words and phrases. Dialects are also just used to characterize the different npcs so they don't always reflect what region they are actually from, you mostly see that in the regions not based off Japan. Rika is a good example as she speaks in a Kansai dialect(tho she might just be a native of a different region)

[@chase1146]

they absolutely had accents in the games. the text is written to imply a british (wide term i know) accent to it. prime example of this is marny saying "shut your gob"

[@littlefox_100]

"Lee's *pants* with directions"

[@idledecay]

“im creamcrackered!”

[@diamondynamite]

​@@littlefox_100*what's in Lee's pants*

[@andrewsd.r.7180]

Whenever I read fanfics based on Galar, I tend to imagine them with the Masters VAs with the accents in mind, it's just fun to do honestly

[@DarkEclipse23]

I think that’s the intent because basically each region is based off of an actual country. So it’d make more sense for them to have varying accents.

[@nellymaldonadooyola4606]

The first few Regions are Inspired from Japan

[@pokefan7446]

When it first got revealed that the Galarian characters in Masters would have non-American accents, I know so many people were mad. Especially since, sans Gloria’s original voice actor, Dela Saba, none of the VAs were actually English, and the accents…definitely aren’t the highest quality. However, personally, as a Brit, I really enjoy them. Part of me was mad initially, especially since the Xenoblade series, another Nintendo IP, actually DID use English VAs (Leading to then also technically appearing in Smash Bros due to Shulk and Pyra/Mythra’s inclusion), and some interpretations of the character voices I heard which paid VERY close attention to ensuring accents were as accurate as possible definitely raised my expectations. However, even if they’re DEFINITELY not authentic, I find them very charming regardless…though some voices take some serious getting used to (Hop’s voice can be grating as it is, he doesn’t need to sound like he’s always shouting) Heck, I’d probably argue some of my favourite voices from Masters are the Galarians BECAUSE of the accents. Raihan’s shockingly-posh accent being a particular stand-out for me.

[@toasteroven6761]

Playing into the accents can easily be a strength, even if they are unrealistic or exaggerated----take the legendary Team Fortress 2 for example. I personally would never be mad about the choice to give----any characters accents (as long as it's executed, at the very least, decently well).

[@OmarRodriguez-pj3qy]

Just curious if there's something I'm not understanding here, but is it not the same when an English actor plays a character with an American accent? Have people been upset over say Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland (as the first ones that came to mind) being English actors, playing non English characters?

[@pokefan7446]

@@OmarRodriguez-pj3qy I can imagine so, but it’s not exactly as common to see it happen in video game dubs, which are predominantly made in the US. Some people will just hear a poorly-done accent and take it as a slight against that culture. This comment wasn’t intended as a “Oh, people MUST hire English VAs for English accents or the end result is horrible”. As I said, I find a bit of charm in the accents the VAs ended up using, even if they might not match up perfectly with an IRL English accent most of the time.

[@rocksterphang7985]

Pretty sure Bede's voice actor is a British lol. Most people don't remember Bede has a British voice actor oof Galarian characters are lucky that they have accents, even if most of them are not authentic. Look at Kalos oof, only Viola has a french accent.

[@pokefan7446]

@@rocksterphang7985 Can’t disagree with you there. A real shame, I find Viola’s accent very adorable. It’s funny that there’s technically an equal amount of Kalos and non-Kalos characters with French accents, since Fantina has one.

[@mushroomdude123]

I really hope that when the SV characters show up in the Horizons Dub/Masters that they have Spanish accents.

[@GatorEX]

Feeling like the anime will just be the usual, while Pokémon Masters will have Spanish accents.

[@flickyfkosstitcher8547]

@@GatorEX If Nemona appearing in a Horizions teaser from the other day on the JP KZbin channel is anything to go by, it's just a matter of time will tell.

[@Mockingbird0014]

It would make sense if they did. Nemona literally says Spanish words in her dialogue from what I can see and tell. I could be wrong on some of it since I don't know that much Spanish, but that does seem to be the angle that the games were going at.

[@nesradub360]

Except Penny, she should have a British accent since she's from Galar. And Giacomo should sound like an Italian from Brooklyn.

[@fubukifangirl]

Doubtful. The Kalos characters didn't have them.

[@nh-thfc]

As a brit, I feel as if they should have added more variety to the accents, maybe using Scottish, Welsh, Cockney, Midlands and MLE accents since those are much more common nowadays than the actual 'British'' accent, although that is still used a lot by the upper classes.

[@Sorrowdusk]

Americans have the expectation of so called "Received Pronunciation". In addition in a game like Overwatch, Tracer is British. The voice actress on her on time speaks English with a *REAL* cockney accent. However when auditioning for the role, and in her playing Tracer she gave a "Hollywood cockney" accent. It's different, but it's what Americans expect it to sound like. It happens with other things too, for example Russian accents in American films are often actually Bulgarian.

[@Joe11924]

@@Sorrowdusk In my experience, Americans tend to expect a sort of Victorian cockney accent seen as most of the Americans that I've met seem to think that that's the only British accent that exists. I've never met an American that expects received pronunciation as that would mean that they can't mock us for not pronouncing our Ts.

[@angeldude101]

@@Sorrowdusk In your experience, how authentic would you say Eunie's cockney accent is from Xenoblade 3? That series is localized in the UK, so the British accents are probably more authentic than they would be if it was localized in the US.

[@TankEngine75]

As a non Brit who is knowledgeable about Great Britain, I headcanon that Nessa has a Scouse accent (as Hulbury is based of Liverpool)

[@nellieturner5390]

I was at a anime convention panel i think a year or two ago where some of the Pokemon VA's for the anime were present. Someone did bring up this question for the different voices between the anime and the mobile game. If I remember right it was the VA for Leon who answered that a different company/agency handles the hiring/directing process for that game versus the show. The VAs for the show have no influence/connection with whatever the Masters EX game is doing, they are entirely seperate.

[@GatorEX]

Yep, that would make a lot of sense.

[@maganhassan2627]

Bang zoom I believe handles pokemon masters English voice acting correct me if I'm wrong

[@gabrielevalentini4438]

As an Italian, Rika's Kansai accent adaptation into the Roman one (which imo is one of the funniest to read and listen to) in my language was nuts... I sure hope they'll do it again in future games, because this one totally killed me the first time😂

[@komarunaegi7460]

Dang, I wish the English version did a better job conveying Rika’s different accent and speech patterns, because I didn’t notice anything like that about her when I played in English. xD She just came off as really cool and kinda tomboyish, and talks casually normally, but switches to coming off more formal when she puts on her glasses and does the League interview, but that’s it. It makes for a cool personality, but no accent from what I remember.

[@Riolu1209]

That’s funny to hear she speaks the Roman dialect in the Italian version since the Kansai dialect is representative of the Johto region. Should Johtonians speak like Roman’s in Italian lol

[@ennmoon]

Effettivamente è stata una sorpresa che parlasse romanesco 😂😂

[@josiahpurtee1156]

My own Pokémon universe: 1. Victor - Cornish/West Country 2. Gloria - Glaswegian/Glasgow 3. Victor/Gloria's Mom - either Cornish/West Country (if Victor's mom) or Glaswegian/Glasgow (if Gloria's mom) 4. Hop - Cockney/Informal London 5. Bede - Brummie/Birmingham/West Midlands 6. Marnie - Slightly more formal Yorkshire 7. Nurse Joy of Galar - Posh English accent 8. Sonia - Any Formal accent 9. Professor Magnolia - Posh English accent 10. Milo - Cornish/West Country 11. Nessa - Staffordshire 12. Kabu - Black Country with a Japanese element (since he's originally from the Hoenn region) 13. Bea - Liverpudlian/Liverpool 14. Allister - Manchester 15. Opal - Aristocratic/Any Overly Formal accent 16. Gordie - Geordie/Newcastle 17. Melony - Geordie/Newcastle 18. Piers - Rough working class Yorkshire 19. Raihan - Essex/Chav 20. Leon - Any Formal accent 21. Team Yell Grunts - Yorkshire accent 22. Macro Cosmos people - Any British accent 23. Chairman Rose - British-Indian 24. Oleana - Any Formal accent 25. Sordward - Irish 26. Shielbert - Irish 27. Klara - North Welsh 28. Avery - South Welsh 29. Mustard - Manx accent with a Chinese element 30. Honey - Manx accent 31. Hyde - Manx accent 32. Peony - British-Indian 33. Peonia - 2nd generation British-Indian 34. Jack - Irish 35. Ball Guy - East Anglian 36. Cara Liss - Hungarian 37. Watt Traders - Cockney

[@TheWanderingNight]

What does Manx with a Chinese element sound like?

[@pokefan7446]

Wow, very in-depth list. I can’t even recall off the top of my head what a Manx accent IS: I also didn’t know how much I needed to hear Irish Sordward and Shielbert. Also, I’d enjoy the idea of Leon having the same accent as Hop but more faint, as some public speakers often need to lessen their natural accent so that they’re, well, understandable. In addition, I’d like the added detail that Oleana’s accent would be VERY over-the-top formal, as she does put up a facade most of the time.

[@WelshGiraffa]

I’d argue Milo should be Welsh along with Marnie and Pierce purely because the way Marnie speaks some of her choice of words are extremely common in wales

[@Frogboyaidan]

I agreed

[@josiahpurtee1156]

@@Frogboyaidan 😁👍

[@Zactoshi]

SONIA!?! 👁👄👁

[@Ditto.007]

Lmao, I read that in your typical deep voice too 😂

[@krookodilegang6192]

Why did I know this was coming the second the video was announced lol

[@GatorEX]

BOOK? 📕

[@friendlyotaku9525]

I wish there had been more British accents in the main anime, the closest thing to a British accent in the Journeys dub is Opal, who sounds *vaguely* British, specifically posh British. And interestingly there is some British terminology that is kept for the dub of Journeys, well more specifically Sonia referring to Magnolia as "Gran" (like she does in the games) which is British for "Grandmother"

[@IcySlavKat]

Yeah it sounds weirdly out of place for someone who speaks with an American accent call their Grandmother, "Gran" especially since I have never heard anyone here in America who calls their Grandmother that, we usually say things like "Grandma", "Grammy", or "Nanna" etc, but "Gran" is pretty much never used

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@IcySlavKat yeah it definitely sounds very odd. At the very least, Hop doesn't go around calling people "Mate" like he does in the games, that would sound even *stranger* to me!

[@oniondesu9633]

they don't sound british even slightly, no one speaks like that

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@oniondesu9633 I said vaguely, the pronunciations are wrong but it is the closest we got

[@Joe11924]

Gran isn't British for grandmother, it's just short for it

[@GarnetBlazeAnimator]

Something I heard is that in US dubbing is that it's tough to get authentic British VAs unless they live in the US. I also know at least a few of the Masters VAs aren't actually British.

[@pikachu0Z]

This is kinda ironic, considering back when 4kids was dubbing Pokemon, some of the one off characters were given accents.

[@GatorEX]

Yep, a lot of that was because in the original Japanese audio, some characters used a different dialect. But then the dub also just gave accents to some characters because 🤷‍♂️

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@GatorEX 4kids liked to give characters accents based on their appearance like if a character wears a cowboy hat you'd know they'd be talking like a cowboy in the dub

[@bearzdlc2172]

@@friendlyotaku9525 They had unique cool voices that were memorable. Modern voice acting is so disgusting and bland and boring.

[@pikachu0Z]

@@GatorEX That's true heck I remember the episode Hocus Pokemon, the witch character Lily had a British accent, so she could be from Galar

[@MagillanicaLouM]

@@friendlyotaku9525 Southern Belle Nico Robin is still the most genius take on a dub voice that resulted from some guy on 4kids seeing her with a cowgirl hat in her first couple outfits and going "Yeah that'll work"

[@somewhere367]

The memes always made me think it was Scottland based.

[@HyouVizer]

Then main character trainer default designs and starting town are scottish based so you aren't wrong there

[@danielsolano330]

Scotland is part of the UK...

[@Frogboyaidan]

The crown tundra is based on Scotland and the starting town is also somewhat Scotland based

[@flaregamer64]

As somebody from the UK my opinions on Masters' voice direction for the Galar cast are pretty mixed. Gloria (the original one), Hop and Sonia are pretty spot-on, A+ for authenticity. Victor, Melony, Bea and Gordie are also quite decent. Then there's weird ones like Leon and Nessa who could've been done better overall and some which have incorrect accents (why is Piers... Australian?) and some who don't really bother with the whole "Bri ish" thing like Raihan, Allister and Bede. What's interesting is that they gave Viola a French accent but nobody else from Kalos sounds as French as her. Apparently there was backlash for this at some point? It's kind of annoying that most of the Galar voices are done by Americans. I get it's easier to do it this way but it doesn't sit well with me. Gloria's alts had her voice actor changed from Della Saba to the person who does Lyra's voicelines and it's never quite felt the same :(

[@Avarith]

I mean, did you wanted Ash to sound japanese ? At this point just watch the sub version of where they are, problem fixed. (I get that since it's the English dub they could have brought British people, but if you do it with one, why not every other dub ?)

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

@@Avarith Koga has a Japanese accent. So clearly that’s not out of the question.

[@Avarith]

@@AverageEggmonEnthusiast i haven't played pokemon masters in a very long time so i just checked his voice and yeah he does have a japanese accent (apparently, the voice actors is specialist to do japanese and Indian accent but i haven't checked that out yet) But i randomly check Calem voice and he doesn't have a french accent, neither does Serena and Professor Sycamore. Language barrier is always gonna be a problem, i remember tekken 7 where every characters speak their language but it doesn't work well when they speak to each others. Accent can be annoying too, it can be bad for the accent or in general : for the Mario movie, people were mad at Chris Pratt for no legit reason, people said the french version accent has better but guess what ? They don't know what they talking about... his voice was a bit higher and that it.

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

@@Avarith I think the problem with mario was A) Mario has had the same VA for a very long time who was supposedly cast IN THE FILM as someone else. B) the clip used in the trailer was just badly acted. It sounded super flat. The movie was better.

[@Pikatwig16]

The ironic thing about Bede is that his English VA in Masters is actually British.

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

Executives: British accents will confuse children and we need American accents to make the characters relatable Peppa Pig:

[@kacywatson6314]

They do have accents, they just gave them American accents. Also, it’s very common these days for cartoons that have an English dub to get both an American English dub, which is done with American voice, actors, or Canadian voice actors as well as a British Irish dub, which is done with British and Irish voice actors. The reason why this is done is because for a couple of years, no right up until recently, British kids were growing up with American accents and were learning the American words for things and we are really struggling to communicate with their own British parents. The British parents son ended up putting a personal household ban on all American TV programmes to prevent the Americanisation of their own children. There’s also apparently a thing with American censorship and also teaching American ideals in children’s TV that just some of it isn’t suitable for British kids. So I haven’t seen the newest Pokémon anime at all last amazing Pokémon was the diamond pearl series. Anyway I think what they’re doing is they are making an American dub of Pokémon in a British dub for the British Isles. Either that, or we just accept the fact that the English dub of the Pokémon anime has always been done in the United States and Americans. Trying British accent. Sound really terrible unless you hire a professional voice actor and that is going to be incredibly expensive.

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

In the games' Japanese versons Johto natives traditionally speak in Kansai dialect. Bill, Bebe, Valerie and commander Kamado are examples. I wonder if they did that for the Johto characters in masters aswell I'd also like to point the games imply in multiple instances that regions have distinct languages. In BW there is a former team rocket member from Kanto that can barely communicate, and detective Looker has unique weird speech patterns in all of his appearances except for X and Y, implying Kalos' language is his mother tongue

[@ravioli_826]

In black and white there are character speaking French

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

You’d have listend to the Japanese audio. A few other characters have accents in English. So maybe?

[@Tenko72]

The grunt is actually from Unova, so he was speaking bad Japanese in Kanto, but this gets changed to broken English, because how else will we know he's the same grunt?

[@Clearance04]

Not gonna lie, I thought the title of the vídeo was "Why don't Galarian people have ACCIDENTS" I guess it made i bit of sense since Sonia was in the thumbnail and has a "troubled" history with driving

[@bebopblue]

Before I played SW/SH, I already knew it was heavily implied that Galar was based on the UK, as I think it was specifically mentioned officially. But I was surprised the dialog had also used British terms. As a American I'm somewhat caught off guard at first when reading the dialog in my head, forgetting accents until I see a British term, then I read the line over again.

[@SJrad]

Regardless sonia is best girl also what’s interesting is that pokemon masters is inconsistent for kalos. Like only viola has a french-sounding accent while everyone else has an American accent

[@orangegalen]

Also Fantina has a French-sounding accent, which actually fits with the fan theory that she’s from Kalos. But yeah, no other Kalosian person has an accent.

[@pangoldie]

Gloria's og voice in masters (the one she has in her normal sync pair) is really cute and fits her pretty well, also im not sure but I think her voice actress was British as well. And then for some reason they changed it for a fake accent in the Inteleon/Urshifu Sync Pair.... Which I guess is because none of the Galar Sync Pairs have actual British Voice Actors voicing them.

[@pangoldie]

Also Viola is the only Kalos character with an accent in Masters for some reason

[@VenkataB123]

They changed the accent because Glora's original VA was no longer voice acting. So, if she continued, I bet her Summer and Dojo outfits would've had the same accent.

[@rocksterphang7985]

Bede's voice actor is actually British lol

[@simonepellegrini8791]

and last we have Rika in scarlet and violet who speaks with the dialect of the capital, in my case being Italian she speaks in Roman dialect, when I saw her speak for the first time I laughed too much, it was nice of the trackers to give her this particularity, I hope they adopt the accent in the Japanese dialect in the anime

[@SwedishSeacon]

I can mention that in the Swedish dub of Pokémon, the VA for Tracey gave him a Stockholm accent and he adds "seru" (you see) at the end of a lot of sentences in his first few episodes. This fades away over time in the show though. I can't think of any other characters having any Swedish region accents in the dubbed version of the show, outside of Fantina and her French accent.

[@crazygalemt]

0:32 you should have also mentioned how some fanart shown her as a alcoholic because of another Scottish video game character. Who happens to also possesses explosive weapons. Aka the demoman from tf2

[@robynbrown1154]

‘Why don’t galarian people have accents?’ Because the showrunners were too lazy and didn’t care about the accents 😭

[@Syiepherze]

Tfw the standard American accent is so widespread in the English VA industry that it isn't considered an accent itself when compared to other accents like British ones lol

[@surrealia]

Masters never gave French accents to the Kalosians but gave one to Fantina

[@rocksterphang7985]

Except for Viola... some reason. I love her for that tho lmao

[@Taijirai]

I don't know about you guys, but when I played through Sword, I did the voices and the accents. Hop is basically Harry Potter to me, but without the money and talent. And Sonia is definitely better with an English accent.

[@SegaMario]

4:17 Oh, I *WILL* @ you. The main Pokémon anime's English Dub just has a lot of "samey" voices for many characters, as well as unfitting or bizarre voice choices for certain characters, like Lillie sounding like a grown woman rather than a young girl and Nanu sounding like freakin' *DR. EGGMAN* since his VA occasionally lends his voice here and there, yet we all expected him to just have the average unenthusiastic, cynical man voice to match his character, not the same voice as a mad scientist who turns animals into power sources for his robots.

[@ctv186]

I'll be curious to see if Geeta will sound Spanish or Indian (in something like Masters) whenever we get a VA for her.

[@jcdeton72]

My Ekans always evolves into Arbok everytime I see Sonia

[@vedantmahajan8794]

They don’t have accents because British people don’t exist 🙄 I thought everyone knew that

[@FTChomp9980]

Just like how the Queen of England doesn't exist.

[@vedantmahajan8794]

@@FTChomp9980 woah bro 😳 i hope a british person doesn’t see that comment (they don’t exist so its fine)

[@arty.man10]

​@@vedantmahajan8794 oi bruv shut you gob, wanker

[@harvesterman5210]

@@vedantmahajan8794 I saw it and laughed

[@Pomerasian]

There is no Easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, AND THERE IS NO QUEEN OF ENGLAND

[@Ma121Hunter]

The anime has never been consistent with accents for the most part, so it doesn't surprise me that they didn't bother with obviously british accents for the obviously british region... but it still disappoints me.

[@GatorEX]

They’ve done accents for character who were supposed to have a different dialect in the original Japanese audio. The old dub would translate that as a different English accent. Like with Bill. Find it interesting 🤔

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

Scottish Gordie is not something I expected to hear, but it fits him

[@arcyarcanine]

"They had no accents" Everyone that can talk has an accent, she had a generic American accent.

[@alexmabey7791]

I dislike when things like the "no one in the USA can understand British accents" thing happens, because it ruins stuff like Bob the Builder!

[@ethanmacdonald8568]

So main anime it probably easier to just get another popular dub VA and use an American accent, plus i can fully believe its a separate canon to the games However i need to throw a small wrench into this logic: explain ash, jessie and james Unlike a basic rocket grunt they gave jessie and james thier own unit to pull for, and they use the same VA as the main games, similarly ash while part of an anniversary event also has voiced lines from his dub VA and was shown to be in the middle of his gen 8 adventure when he "suddenly" shows up on the island of pasio(in all honesty im pretty sure the hoopa owned by the leader of the island is responsible, but im 99% sure it can't pull from multiple universes)

[@WarmLillie]

Accents, for me I don’t mind but the lack of it does give lack or personal flavor. While exploring a new region it’s like exploring a new culture for well me at the very least. I know it might sound strange but I do speak and have a range of accents. But as English speakers mine is more American and bring out a bit of a British tone to sound older and even sophisticated. But even in text what can be something that added to make word a bit more interesting. To me Sonia has both, She’s lovely don’tcha agree. I’ll end off with this: “Let's give it our all out there today! And no matter what, stay positive!" "My cheers will really get you goin'!"

[@Bailanat0r]

Just imagine…. We could have had Clement with a stereotypical Parisian accent.

[@Sailor11Sedna]

There’s a fan dub of Piers that’s British and sounds like my headcanon. It’s bizarre to get a voice that I don’t expect. Changing accents for the sake of censorship? I may be American, but I know people in the UK still consume American dubs. What, is it not possible for my American brain to understand the Xenoblade Chronicles voices, or to watch the Harry Potter movies? Kids are smart, they’ll figure out that it’s a regional speaking pattern.

[@AlexxxMYLSince2013]

Im currently watching Pokémon Horizons, its futile to expect that they would give the Pandean Characters like Liko a Spanish accent in Japanese, but it would be cool if they had it in the dub, We don't know from what part of "Spain" is Liko but we know for sure that Nemona is Andaluza it would be funny to hear her with that accent xD Maybe they'll do it in masters

[@supremeseregios6810]

On the topic of the games and accents, I remember one guy from ORAS on the SS Tidal who claimed to be from Unova, and his textbox made him speak in a way which made him have an accent.

[@delclo4043]

As a Brit, I'm happy that they tried to give them accents in masters, it's just a shame that the accents aren't great 💀

[@kurukurushuffle]

I can't stand the Masters accents because a lot of them feel like an American's stock idea of a "British" accent that sounds nothing like a real person in any part of the UK. With us having such varied accents from place to place, it's impressive to have a total misfire.

[@MysticMylesZ]

3:00 and the thing is, I remember these voices way more than the twilight wings voices.

[@MysticMylesZ]

Chairman rose and his assistant tho, I somewhat remember thier voices

[@FTChomp9980]

Sonia sounds much more beautiful with a British accent I'm a sucker for accents in general her sounding like a American just sounds wrong she ain't Unovan she is a Galarian.

[@HyouVizer]

Everyone has an accent, so a sucker for the sound of human voices lol

[@IronDino]

I can understand the main anime not having accents as it's harder to keep an accent consistent over hundreds of episodes (though they could have just as easily hired voice actors with the relevant accents). But it would have been nice to see (hear) the proper accents in the spin-off series.

[@Ideabro]

I wonder if people in galar eat "Beans on toast" and drink out their "Water bottle"🤣😂🤔😏

[@ElectroBlastLuigi]

I miss when the English dub had anime characters speak in certain accents. This was put to a halt since Diamond and Pearl with Fantina.

[@tempertenchi]

OH GOD SOMEONE SAID GALAR. HI. it actually did personally bother me. Bede is a huge comfort character for me, during my first play through of Sword, I ALWAYS consistantly imagined him with with a British accent bc Galar itself is extremely British aesthetically. Bede wasnt really in the anime, but was in Twilight Wings. I was very sad when he had a American accent. bc for me, imagining him as British only to have them give him an American accent was like? idk it just felt off. GOD BLESS masters EX for having an actual British VA, Beau Bridgland voice him. I personally prefer the masters EX voice acting over the anime bc it feels more authentic, and I would like to see more of that going forward. if a region is based on a certain part of the world, go all out. also I know you stated its not your personal opinion but like, kids dont care about stuff like that? Ive never known a child like my siblings, friends kids ect that have not liked a character bc of an accent and in fact its the opposite. my little sisters and brother LOVED peppa pig for example and my youngest sister even said "I love the way they talk" and from what ive from my friends kids they love Bluey, and the Australian accents as well.

[@Axecon1]

I was going to make a Xenoblade joke on having UK voice acting but it’s full of beans

[@CoralReaper707]

I am actually still kinda mad they didn't give them accents in the amime.

[@laurasohn8332]

I always imagine Sonia having a cockney accent in the game

[@JWHSHK]

I think what could of happen would be to add UK idioms/naming conventions into the dialog so it comes across that Galar is slightly different then other regions. Like how in the US a softdrink can be called pop, soda, or sodapop depending on which part of the US you are in.

[@Maxidos]

I think that in the games different regions are meant to speak different languages but they can’t make them do it because the player needs to understand since in the school in scarlet and violet when you do the language classes the teacher talks about needing to understand people in different regions.

[@Candyy248]

Well, after all, these are just fictional regions, they can be inspired from real places but they are still fictional places v:

[@UltravioletNomad]

Even if the language of the pokemon universe originates from a common place, regional dialects are unavoidable. We often think that language is only discint because people originate from other places, but language is constantly evolving, and the priorities and mannerisms of shared groups are reinforced by the language itself. I mean we aren't even talking about an accent from people who speak a different language when referencing Galar, these are BOTH English, and we're talking about the differences just between that.

[@eertikrux666]

Imagine a region based on South East Asia where people speak like Uncle Roger As a South east asian, I find that idea horrifying

[@Maxidos]

2:57 “galah”

[@ClefairyFairySnowflake]

I had the same complaint about professor Sycamore. His lack of a French accent was very disappointing.

[@904funny]

In Pokémon Masters, Gordie basically has Reyn’s voice Seems so natural for him to also say “buncha jokers”

[@someteennamedcharles2035]

4KIDS: (pops out of their grave) you wanted accents!? Then why did you abandon us!?

[@ImmortalAbsol]

There's lots of differences between the games and the anime, I'm glad it's consistent between the main game text and the Masters game. We need a fan dub for the tie-in anime haha

[@WarmLillie]

Can I have Sonia book? I love devouring them.

[@Boamere]

Trust me they have accents, just american ones

[@Goat81093]

I love Gloria's voice the most. They kinda gave her a raspy voice just like the fans though she'd have

[@BarryMcockiner-no8qd]

3:11 hmm.. wonder who gordie sounds like... 🤔

[@acidsugar385]

Idk but he sounds familiar

[@XavierHyena]

**Reads title** What, are all the characters mute? How do they not have accents?

[@SerenaAndCo]

4:13 - 4:20 man spitting facts

[@Sakachi18]

I like the Masters EX voices. But for some reason Emmet (an American character) kind of sounds like he has a bit of a British accent. Which is weird since his twin sounds like a normal American.

[@mikeva1683]

I prefer the voice acting in Masters: especially since Game Freak still has no voice over for the characters in the games. After Gen 8 and 9, they really need to add it in to future games.

[@nmikk10]

Imagine a mobile game having voice acting and a switch game not. Oh wait…

[@SupermanMFL]

Sonia is a exceptionally talented professor I think she’s cute

[@yellowcaballero]

I actually love the VA of Gloria, Victor, and Bede. They sound adorable in pokemas

[@thesplatooanima8231]

I wonder, why they couldn't get the Person, who dubbed over the Scottish Pokémon Trainer Memes to Voice Gloria in Masters? It's the Same VA, who does Uzi in Murder Drones or that one Character in Poppy Playtime?

[@zoa1-99.......]

0:50 Of course they have an accent, every person on Earth speaks with some sort of accent lol. What you mean is, it isn't a UK accent.

[@tseantan]

Other languages exist in the games, as shown by the language teacher Salvatore in Scarlet and Violet.

[@loves6368]

Personally, I like Sonia without an accent because the accent for Masters Sonia doesn't really fit her (in my opinion). It sounds more middle aged instead of young adult. It also sounds more academic and professional. While even though Sonia is now a professor, she still likes more trendy things. If Sonia had a higher voice that suited her younger and more immature personality and look while still keeping the accent, I would've liked it better.

[@TornadoHyenyaku]

The first thing that popped out of my mind when seeing this video is "BO'OH'O'WA'ER" :v

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

Scottish Gloria memes are the best

[@furinahydroerm]

Tbh,Sonia when we hear the British accent in the spin-off game she kinda sounds like mommy pig from pepper pig

[@novaduck_iv]

2:53 I thought I was watching a video about xenoblade 3 for a second there lol

[@Davanthall]

BAW’AW’O’WAH’AW!!

[@benedictdakirby9919]

I hope that in the sv dub in spanish (Latin-américa variations of spanish included) that the characters talk like in the games in spanish (that weird translation) just for make a funny reference

[@Joshi_ForReal]

I understand not putting a french accent for kalos because they would be speaking a different language anyway,but galar? The people who invented the language? You'd think theyd put on an accent

[@edenanimates1465]

We didn’t get a Wallace and gromit reference in the galar region

[@madnessarcade7447]

The anime has had British characters before

[@AzureGreatheart]

Honestly, having people with different accents in different areas is a detail I really like, and even in the US release, Galar pretty much stops just short of straight up using British English spellings anyway, so I prefer the accents here.

[@oyoo3323]

And by British spellings, you mean international English spellings. There hardly any spelling convention for any words which are unique to Britain, they are for the most part, just standard international English spelling, used in basically all countries with English as an official language, and even nearly all other countries too, where English is taught at schools, with a few special exceptions, like former US colonies, like the Philippines. They often forget about it, but the US, both in its choice of English spelling, and many other ways too, is an outlier, not the standard.

[@AzureGreatheart]

@@oyoo3323 Sir, it originated in Britain, it’s represented by the British flag whenever language selection screens have flags on them, and it got spread around because Britain conquered large swathes of the world. The only reason the US has a separate form of English is because the nature of our country caused the language to change over time to the point where it’s technically considered a different language.

[@oyoo3323]

@@AzureGreatheart firstly, not a sir. Secondly... Yes, and....? You aren't really contradicting me in any way. You are right. But your point is... what exactly...? All English originates from there, so of course that's going to be the case. It is only logical to represent a language by the flag of its origin point, so either the Union Jack 🇬🇧 (or the English flag in stead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, which is my preference, but both make sense). It then follows that is makes sense to use the flag of any outliers by the the outlier's flag. The fact of the matter is, how does any of what you said contradict what I said? It just adds to it. My gripe is that yanks, and basically no one else, call ALL other English: British English. When really it's just normal English. It was never called "British English" spelling before that, and even now, no one in the countries in question calls it "British" spelling. Whether it be Australia, Jamaica, Singapore or (my own country) Aotearoa, no one there and here calls our spelling "British" spelling, it's just normal English spelling, sometimes called "standard" or "international" if necessary to specify. So it rubs us (non-UK English speakers) quite the weird way when yanks see how we (by which I mean nearly EVERYONE ELSE) write, and call it "British English". It also has the negative side-effect on them themselves, as many of them, due to this terminology, end up with the misconception that ONLY the UK uses it, as worse yet as I've often seen, they think that the way THEY write is the norm taught all over the world, often fueling their over bloated hyper nationalistic ego even further than it already has.

[@unleafed5038]

Of course her American accent sounds cuter, the british accents are so forced - I never hear like anyone actually speaking like that

[@kingdoingstuff]

My problem is that masters isn't evem what British people sound like anymore Ik bc i live here in london💀

[@benjaminacuna8013]

I think Pokémon is just lazy about this shit, cause Kalos and Paldea both don’t have accents either it’s so weird

[@GatorEX]

Definitely on the anime side. Cause I’ll bet Nemona will have an American accent in the anime, but watch her have a Spanish accent in Pokémon Masters.

[@benjaminacuna8013]

@@GatorEX that takes you out of the immersion cause even people from the same countries sound different region to region

[@EliteTrainerKenway]

Plot twist: They DO have accents. You just cant tell because you watch a lot of BirdKeeperToby.

[@SonplaysMinEcraft]

Game Freak wanted to add British accents after playing Xenoblade 3

[@omegav1252]

I understand why they didn't but bri' ish memes aside the voices are great

[@Falconwing51]

I like both of the accents, but it would've been nice to hear the same kinda mannerisms in the anime as they had in the SwSh dialogue. As a Bri'ish myself, as much as I hated SwSh as games, it was a nice change seeing certain words used, like saying "mate" more often or talking about how Leon is *pants* with directions. Some of the time it was a bit awkward, but iirc it was mostly good. Could've been interesting for them to go even further with the accents though. Hammerlocke was apparently based on Birmingham, so it would've been funny if Raihan sounded like a Brummie. Also obviously Gloria and the heavy Scottish accent memes that've been around basically since her design was revealed.

[@tax_evasion5592]

Gloria is just fab service at that point

[@Hamantha]

Bro the American washed almost all the regions 😭

[@joshpohlner8716]

As someone from England, I hate the "British" accents they gave them in Masters, other than Gordie. He's the only person who actually has an accent that isn't clearly an American person doing the stereotypical English accent. All of the characters (other than Gordie) sound like they come from various areas of the South of England, with Gordie being the only character who deviates from that, taking a lot of inspiration from Geordie accents which are from a similar area to where I'm from. With virtually all of the accents being pretty much the same posh southern accent, the entire thing seems less like they actually took inspiration from the UK, and more that they googled what the stereotypical British person sounded like and said "yeah that'll do, the entire country is like that", which is incredibly lazy and stupid. It would be like if the Unova series has all of its characters speaking in thick Boston accents, or the stereotypical Texas cowboy accents because they're two of the most well known American accents, even if they are exaggerated. I just feel like if they wanted to do British accents properly, they should have rejected everyone in the actual voice cast of Masters and got some actual British people to do the voices. Except Gordie. He was good. But if they didn't want to do that then just go with the American accents because at least it wouldn't have ended up with the terrible "British accents" of Nessa and Sonia, both of which really distract me from my experience in Masters. Yes, I know this is incredibly petty and doesn't matter in the slightest. No, I do not care.

[@rentor9230]

I feel the same. Also, the accents they gave them seem really forced and "offish", except for Gordie's.

[@joshpohlner8716]

@@rentor9230 I know exactly what you mean. I think it's probably down to them getting American voice actors, who arent good at British accents, to do British accents. At least that's what I think happened.