Sorry for coming into my art blog to talk about this but I’ve literally seen no one talk about this! I recently bought the second BNHA video game and I mained Hawks and I noticed that when he celebrates after a successful mission he speaks in his dialect!!!! Like, he usually refrains from speaking in his dialect in the manga and anime. But here you have him speaking in Kyushu dialect! I love this detail!
[Also, so much character comes out of Hawks in the video game because in the manga/anime story we don’t get much of him outside of his assigned job (to make it vague for the anime watchers). ]
For those who wonder, what I mean by using his dialect: He says: よかね！(Yoka ne!) Which is the equivalent of いいね！(Ii ne!) in standard Japanese. I don’t know how translate it accurately so I will refrain from doing that but feel free to suggest translations, like I said, he says that after a successful mission so it is like a celebratory thing. Ii means good for literal translation.
Last semester I did a research paper on his dialect so I have been looking for moments where he uses his dialect and hearing him use it in the game made me so happy! I love my bird man so much... I wish he spoke in his dialect more~