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INTEREST: Learn the Basics of Conversational English with Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic

he cover illustration, showing the cast in (allegedly) British school uniforms

...Britain presented in the anime that might have gone over the viewers' heads, like the correct pronunciation of "Alice" (Arisu in a Japanese accent), summer festivals in Britain, and what that British picture book was that Alice and Shinobu were reading.

I don't know... that looks quite similar to a British school uniform. The design here also looks similar, just changing the color palette.

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will explain parts of the English dialogue that are difficult for Japanese speakers to understand

Frankly, I never understood why japanese studios use Japanese voice actors who can't speak English to speak in English.

AJ (LordNikon) wrote:

Frankly, I never understood why japanese studios use Japanese voice actors who can't speak English to speak in English.

1) Because the target audience can't tell (or care for) the difference between british english, east coast english, australian english and gibberish (sometimes they just say "pera pera").

And that's why Hollywood does the same thing!
(Also for other languages like Spanish.)