I'd like to think that Iowa speaks broken engrish as an attempt to speak in both languages effectively while Kongou just legitimately knows jack-all about english.
This actually makes a lot of sense. There was a story one of my Japanese translation professors told me about English in Japanese businesses/media. He had a friend who worked as a professional English speaker for Japanese instructional videos and that sort of thing. One time he had a recording session and spoke the English in the script with perfect native English... and after it was done, the JP people in charge told him that his English was "too perfect" and it needed to be more Engrishy so that the JP people who would be listening could understand better.
From what I've seen in discussions, the Japanese don't really mind that Kongou/Iowa speak in Engrish, and some of them actually feel a bit intimidated by Warspite's almost perfect English since it sounds weird to them, while the feeling is the exact opposite here in the West, where Warspite is a shining example of English speaking from a Japanese seiyuu and Iowa/Kongou are shoddy stereotypes.
Pretty much what Farren said. As someone who frequents both japanese and english fandom forums for Kancolle. I've only really seen complaint about Kongou and Iowa speaking Engrish from the western fanbase.
But Japanese fans just find it moe. Both sides however have noticed Warspites near perfect english for different reasons for. Western fanbase is more happy about it than the japanese fanbase.
Well and surviving for decades after the war well into the period when Japan was a close ally probably. Iowa is old as fuck compared to everyone else really in terms of length of time 'alive' and just getting older and older as time goes on.
This actually makes a lot of sense. There was a story one of my Japanese translation professors told me about English in Japanese businesses/media. He had a friend who worked as a professional English speaker for Japanese instructional videos and that sort of thing. One time he had a recording session and spoke the English in the script with perfect native English... and after it was done, the JP people in charge told him that his English was "too perfect" and it needed to be more Engrishy so that the JP people who would be listening could understand better.
From what I've seen in discussions, the Japanese don't really mind that Kongou/Iowa speak in Engrish, and some of them actually feel a bit intimidated by Warspite's almost perfect English since it sounds weird to them, while the feeling is the exact opposite here in the West, where Warspite is a shining example of English speaking from a Japanese seiyuu and Iowa/Kongou are shoddy stereotypes.
I get some similar first-hand experiences even in a Commonwealth country. I spent some time studying in the US, so by the time I came back my accent veered a bit towards NoCal, causing local people (especially students) to get intimidated slightly when I spoke to them.
This actually makes a lot of sense. There was a story one of my Japanese translation professors told me about English in Japanese businesses/media. He had a friend who worked as a professional English speaker for Japanese instructional videos and that sort of thing. One time he had a recording session and spoke the English in the script with perfect native English... and after it was done, the JP people in charge told him that his English was "too perfect" and it needed to be more Engrishy so that the JP people who would be listening could understand better.
From what I've seen in discussions, the Japanese don't really mind that Kongou/Iowa speak in Engrish, and some of them actually feel a bit intimidated by Warspite's almost perfect English since it sounds weird to them, while the feeling is the exact opposite here in the West, where Warspite is a shining example of English speaking from a Japanese seiyuu and Iowa/Kongou are shoddy stereotypes.
Goddamn uncanny valleys. This "too perfect" thing started from SOMETHING.
...I'm, not good at Japanese...Kongou, does the admiral hate me, I wonder...?
Whenever I talk to him he starts frowning, and runs away immediately...Ah~ ...Well, that's because the admiral isn't good at English... I don't think he meant any offense.Is that so?This conversation is in English.That's why I recommend you to speak English in a more broken manner, you know? Just like what Iowa and I did.
