Thread: Nanoha - Q&A
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Old 2009-05-04, 23:52   Link #1263
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Suzuka's voice sounds like she should be speaking pretty formally, but her speech is actually a little more informal than I would have expected. Normal girl of her age, maybe a bit on the soft-spoken side.

There aren't actually that many speech quirks. Nanoha's essentially normal-little-girl. Arisa is a type A but too young for any of the constructs that would really bring it out. Nanoha's family is all more or less standard. Fate's just quiet. Hayate has the Kansai accent, but it's not emphasized the way that many shows do (like, say, Saku from Hayate the Combat Butler). The only character from A's with a real speech affectation is Signum, and that's mostly word choice (even lighthearted Signum is pretty serious). Zafira to a lesser extent, but he's quiet too, and talking tough-man language rather than formal-warrior, so the effect is kind of Kenshiro with wolf ears.

I'd have to watch StrikerS again before talking about any speech (except Rein's, which is, of course, cute... and Agito's, which is affected like a female gangster or an old-style yakuza.)
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