Got to wonder why he was unloved and unwanted, though, haven't you? His parents might well have known something when they ditched him at the orphanage. I'm guessing there's not much mental health care available.
Kansai accents - yeah. Standard Tokyo Japanese sounds very flat when it's spoken. Kansai in contrast is much more varied, with a more sing-song sound that comes from more tonal variation of the words, plus more strongly stressed syllables. It is rough and slang-filled - it uses a lot more contractions than standard Japanese and misses words out as routine. A native eastern Japanese speaker friend of mine tells me Kansai sounds like the Japanese language has been cut off at the knees! It's also normal to be less formal when speaking Kansai - women are allowed to use casual male speech patterns instead of almost always being polite XD.
To be honest, Nightow has said that Wolfwood isn't 'really' speaking Kansai, he's just using Kansai to indicate that Wolfwood has some kind of strong accent. Your best plan for the drabble is probably to imagine it as some type of accent that you are familiar with.
I believe Kansai accents in Japanese media are traditionally associated with gangsters (Osaka being yakuza central) or with morons. So when Wolfwood turns up speaking Kansai, that's a tip-off that he's either the comic relief or someone to keep a very close eye on. In that respect it's kind of similar to a Cockney accent in English films - that has the same associations with mobsters and amusing idiots. Maybe a Sicilian accent in US terms with its Mafia associations?
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Kansai accents - yeah. Standard Tokyo Japanese sounds very flat when it's spoken. Kansai in contrast is much more varied, with a more sing-song sound that comes from more tonal variation of the words, plus more strongly stressed syllables. It is rough and slang-filled - it uses a lot more contractions than standard Japanese and misses words out as routine. A native eastern Japanese speaker friend of mine tells me Kansai sounds like the Japanese language has been cut off at the knees! It's also normal to be less formal when speaking Kansai - women are allowed to use casual male speech patterns instead of almost always being polite XD.
To be honest, Nightow has said that Wolfwood isn't 'really' speaking Kansai, he's just using Kansai to indicate that Wolfwood has some kind of strong accent. Your best plan for the drabble is probably to imagine it as some type of accent that you are familiar with.
I believe Kansai accents in Japanese media are traditionally associated with gangsters (Osaka being yakuza central) or with morons. So when Wolfwood turns up speaking Kansai, that's a tip-off that he's either the comic relief or someone to keep a very close eye on. In that respect it's kind of similar to a Cockney accent in English films - that has the same associations with mobsters and amusing idiots. Maybe a Sicilian accent in US terms with its Mafia associations?
That's about as much help as I can be, I think!