Kasuga Ayumu

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Ayumu Kasuga is a transfer student from Osaka. Tomo, expecting her to act like the stereotypical Osakan (loud, exuberant and fond of jokes), quickly chose for her the nickname "Osaka", although Ayumu's behavior could not be more different from the "typical" Osakan.[1] Ayumu considers her label "slow" and "spacey", but she lacks the energy or motivation to dispute it. Her nickname sticks so well that she becomes known as "Osaka" by the teachers and even in the class roster. After a while, no one remembers her real name (Yomi has a similar problem). In the manga, Osaka mentioned that she lived in Kobe when she was in elementary school and was born in Wakayama. Tomo, who says she doesn't know where Wakayama is, tells Ayumu to "just be Osaka". The English dub by ADV Films equates her Kansai dialect to a Southern United States accent from around ADV's home city of Houston, Texas, "which shares the business-oriented attitude with Osaka as well as the country image that color both the Southern and Osaka accents" (as said by ADV translator notes). In the manga, which was translated first, her accent was rendered into a New York City one, which is a small tradition for anime characters with Osaka accents, such as Naru/Molly from Sailor Moon. This drew criticism because it caused Osaka to use more profanity. Osaka often acts like a "dim bulb": slow, inattentive, and stuck in her own world. Although she seems slow and easily distracted, she merely has a mind that works quite different

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