Why Don't Galarian People Have Accents? 

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

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

SONIA!?! 👁👄👁

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"

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The memes always made me think it was Scottland based.

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

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😂

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

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"

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.

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

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 :(

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

BAW’AW’O’WAH’AW!!

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

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

I always imagine Sonia having a cockney accent in the game

My Ekans always evolves into Arbok everytime I see Sonia

Can I have Sonia book? I love devouring them.

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'!"

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

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

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 💀

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.

Scottish Gloria memes are the best

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

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

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.

Oh snap! At him bois!

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

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

Pokewaifus are life.

2:57 “galah”

GORDIE MENTIONED‼️‼️

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.

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

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

Masters really goes above and beyond for it's characters.

The anime has had British characters before

4:13 - 4:20 man spitting facts

Gloria is just fab service at that point

3:25 nice pun

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Exactly 😭 other regions too!

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

We have moved on since Victorian London chimney sweeps yaknow

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

Game Freak wanted to add British accents after playing Xenoblade 3

We need a mainline pokemon game with voice acting.

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.

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

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.

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)

I like the British accent for sonia and gloria.

The only one I pictured with an accent was hop nobody else

Amazing

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

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

Accents, except that Gloria NEEDS to be so Scottish she's incomprehensible

A wa''er type poekeymon

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

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

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

0:59 But French and Spanish exist in detective Pikachu.

Because they do all the casting in America Also different universe different rules