This is so funny I JUST turned in a paper about this topic for my anthropology class and reading the comments is just proving my point that people do not care about the cultural representation/attempt at a deeper story through the audio, they just wanna watch pretty Japan show
'WITCH HAT ATELIER' English ADR Director Emily Fajardo used accents to build the world and tell a story
"There is a clear class divide. There are a lot of social differences between these groups of people, and I wanted that to be immediately audible, and accents are a very good quick way to do that"
"In English, we automatically associate different history and class structures with these sounds, and so Coco and all the outsiders that she lives with all have the standard American accent."