[Question] About Spain's speech.

[nananeechan.livejournal.com]

He has this weird speech, which I don't know where it's from btw, but he always say 'akan' in doujinshis, what does it mean?

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[sngaara.livejournal.com]

Spain speeks the kansai dialect, which can be heard mostly in Osaka

"akan" can mean "not good" but as my japanese sucks maybe you should trust another person translation XD

[hagane-no-mame.livejournal.com]

Kansai-ben encompasses all the western dialects of Japan so it's not only spoken in Osaka but all of Japan's west in one form or another. The kansai-ben spoken in Osaka, named Osaka-ben, is just a branch of kansai-ben.

Comedians in Japan usually speak in the kansai dialect and most of the famous ones are from the Osaka area so sometimes people think that's the only place kansai-ben is spoken but it's not true ^ ^;

[carmencaboodle.livejournal.com]

"akan" is like the phrase "dame"
It essentially means "Do not"
Is it used to express what one should not do.

[mitsukirox101.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you very much! I wouldn't know much about dialects except for the ending -han that's like -san i think

[nananeechan.livejournal.com]

I see, thank youz :3

[mitsukirox101.livejournal.com]

OMG YES! in 1 doujinshi where he was 'getting it on' with Romano he kept saying "akan! akan" and Im like does it mean good? but some parts that would make no sense XDD

[valeriehearts.livejournal.com]

oh yes sexy spain... lol it gets me to think that he most likely would say "mierda" (which means shit in spanish) in spanish rather than akan!

[gargargarrick.livejournal.com]

I think it's something like "it's hopeless!" given how I tend to see it used.