PoT Dialects
For personal reference. Dialectal speech by Niou & Chitose, from the manga volumes.
Niou
vol. 24
”やっぱ本物のレーザービーム は けた違いの威力やの。。。柳生”
"yappa honmono no laser beam wa ketachigai no iryoku ya no...Yagyuu"
”見てみんしゃい アノ顔”
"miteminshai ano kao"
”甘いぜよ！！”
"amai zeyo!!"
”やっぱ怖いべ ウチの参謀はよう”
"yappa kowai be uchi no sanbou wa you"
vol. 25
”よく見てみんしゃい”
"yoku mite minshai"
vol. 26
”赤也の奴。。。今まで戦った相手の技を繰り出してけつかる”
"Akaya no yatsu...ima made tatakatta ite no waza wo kuridashite ketsukaru"
”ウチの参謀じゃけのう”
"uchi no sanbou jake nou"
Chitose
vol. 27
”なんね いまん試合？ 今年の関東はショボかね”
"nanne iman shiai? kotoshi no Kantou wa shobo kane"
”桔平 弱くなったばい。 1年前の方が強かったんじゃなかと？”
"Kippei yowaku nattabai. ichinen mae no houga tsuyokattan janakato?"
vol. 29
”金ちゃん 楽しみばいね”
"Kin-chan tanoshimibai ne"
Chitose seems to speak in the classic Hakata dialect (north west end of Kyushu) so I imagine he's from Fukuoka. Same with Tachibana. (Edit: Tachibana is from Kumamoto, just south of Fukuoka).
Niou on the otherhand, is impossible to place. For some reason, I kept thinking he was from Kyushu too, but looking back now on the instances where he speaks in the manga, it seems this was just something I had picked up from doujins, which usually place him in Kyushu. I've most often read him as having an Oita accent in doujins. But in the manga, he has no continuity. "Minshai" sounds like "minsai," spoken in Hiroshima. Likewise with "jake" also from Hiroshima dialect. On the otherhand, he says "zeyo" which is Shikoku, probably Tosa. Without actually hearing him speak, I can't really tell where he's from. Somewhere south west, at least. But it is also quite possible he uses messed up dialect from all over just for kicks. Interestingly, he refused to answer the question of where he was from, when asked in one of those fan surveys.
Niou
vol. 24
”やっぱ本物のレーザービーム は けた違いの威力やの。。。柳生”
"yappa honmono no laser beam wa ketachigai no iryoku ya no...Yagyuu"
”見てみんしゃい アノ顔”
"miteminshai ano kao"
”甘いぜよ！！”
"amai zeyo!!"
”やっぱ怖いべ ウチの参謀はよう”
"yappa kowai be uchi no sanbou wa you"
vol. 25
”よく見てみんしゃい”
"yoku mite minshai"
vol. 26
”赤也の奴。。。今まで戦った相手の技を繰り出してけつかる”
"Akaya no yatsu...ima made tatakatta ite no waza wo kuridashite ketsukaru"
”ウチの参謀じゃけのう”
"uchi no sanbou jake nou"
Chitose
vol. 27
”なんね いまん試合？ 今年の関東はショボかね”
"nanne iman shiai? kotoshi no Kantou wa shobo kane"
”桔平 弱くなったばい。 1年前の方が強かったんじゃなかと？”
"Kippei yowaku nattabai. ichinen mae no houga tsuyokattan janakato?"
vol. 29
”金ちゃん 楽しみばいね”
"Kin-chan tanoshimibai ne"
Chitose seems to speak in the classic Hakata dialect (north west end of Kyushu) so I imagine he's from Fukuoka. Same with Tachibana. (Edit: Tachibana is from Kumamoto, just south of Fukuoka).
Niou on the otherhand, is impossible to place. For some reason, I kept thinking he was from Kyushu too, but looking back now on the instances where he speaks in the manga, it seems this was just something I had picked up from doujins, which usually place him in Kyushu. I've most often read him as having an Oita accent in doujins. But in the manga, he has no continuity. "Minshai" sounds like "minsai," spoken in Hiroshima. Likewise with "jake" also from Hiroshima dialect. On the otherhand, he says "zeyo" which is Shikoku, probably Tosa. Without actually hearing him speak, I can't really tell where he's from. Somewhere south west, at least. But it is also quite possible he uses messed up dialect from all over just for kicks. Interestingly, he refused to answer the question of where he was from, when asked in one of those fan surveys.