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Near the beginning of the second episode of _Hitori no Shita: The Outcast_ ,
Baobao reads out details about her new identity as a student supposedly from
Taiwan to Zhang Chulan. In the Chinese version of the episode that I saw,
Baobao's Mandarin Chinese pronunciation in this specific segment sounds very
non-standard. (Elsewhere, her pronunciation sounds normal.) Zhang Chulan in
fact remarks that she is speaking 四川话 (i.e. Sichuanese).

Is there any mirroring of this use of a regional language variant in the
Japanese dub? If I remember correctly, the subtitles on Crunchyroll, which
broadcast the Japanese dub, only have Zhang Chulan indicate that Baobao is
lying, but which makes me suspect not. However, as I do not know Japanese, I
would like for someone to perhaps confirm this.


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In the Japanese dub, is there any parallel to Baobao's use of Sichuanese?


I watched the first three episodes of _Hitori no Shita_ , and can confirm that
Baobao speaks plain old standard Japanese ( _hyoujungo_ ), with not a hint of
any regional lect. In episode 2, Chulan indeed only states that the details
she's reading out are obvious lies.

(It came as a surprise when I learned that she spoke a non-standard variety in
the Chinese audio version. Kinda strange that they wouldn't similarly pick a
non-standard variety of Japanese for the Japanese version.)


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