Forum:Von Karmas German accents?

So we've all played (hopefully) the earlier Ace Attorney games, and we've seen both Manfred and Franziska von Karma prosecuting.

Yet, here gets me. Both of them were born and raised in Germany. They studied in Germany and they prosecuted in Germany before occassionally prosecuting in America. (Don't know much about Manfred's U.S career, so correct me if I'm wrong).

There is only one recording for each of them, in both Japanese and English, and of course it's the famed ''Objection! ''However, both of them do not have German accents (don't get me started on Manfred's demonic voice) but Franziska's is clearly evident to be a neutral North American tone. I also don't understand how Edgeworth can have a semi-English accent, as did his father, so there should be no problem with having an accent?

Now I know in the Japanese version that both von Karmas' are supposed to be from the U.S and are not German. But I thought it was interesting they NA localization team played up the highly Germanic names and talking about being Franziska's life in Germany... but giving her a North American accent? Another aspect could be that they couldn't find any German voice actors to say Objection! (However, I doubt that), or German would be too difficult to understand for some people? (Again, Objection is written on the screen and Manfred's objection is certainly unintelligible in itself)

Hope you guys enjoyed the article because I doubt I'm the only person who noticed this and wondered... but perhaps maybe someone has some answers.

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