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Anime characters that speak English well.
Most, if not all, of us here are familiar with Engrish in anime. There's plenty of examples of anime characters who mix in this very halting Engrish with a much more natural-sounding Japanese.
But on the flip side, there are some anime characters that speak English well.
Angel Beats! had a character that spoke very little, and what he did speak was usually (always?) English. That character was TK. A lot of TK's English statements were English pop culture references, and/or made no sense grammatically, but the English words themselves were clearly spoken and natural-sounding.
More recently there's Shinobu in Railgun S. Shinobu's use of English seems to suggest that the Japanese really do see English the way English-speakers tend to see French (as this inherently beautiful, exotic, poetic language). Shinobu randomly starts some pieces of dialogue with specific English words or phrases, usually ones that fit the situation very poetically. Shinobu says the English words with a real touch of flamboyance, but at the same time the English words are enunciated well (just with a theatrical slowness for greater impact).
What other examples of good English-use can people think of in anime?
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