140-559: Apollo Justice , known in Japanese as Hōsuke Odoroki ( Japanese : 王泥喜 法介 , Hepburn : Odoroki Hōsuke ) is a character in the 2007 video game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney as its protagonist, replacing Phoenix Wright , who was the protagonist of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy , which takes place seven years prior. Like Phoenix, he is a defense attorney, whose first case, under mentor Kristoph Gavin ,
280-494: A "not guilty" verdict as ransom . Pearl and Maya subsequently each separately channel Mia to allow her to pass information about where Maya is being held to Phoenix, allowing them to turn De Killer against Engarde during his trial and have Engarde plead "guilty", allowing for Maya's release. Pearl additionally displays her athletic abilities in being able to run from the mountaintop Kurain Village to Los Angeles in under five hours,
420-624: A benefit from the in-group to the out-group) means "[I/we] explained [it] to [him/her/them]". Such beneficiary auxiliary verbs thus serve a function comparable to that of pronouns and prepositions in Indo-European languages to indicate the actor and the recipient of an action. Japanese "pronouns" also function differently from most modern Indo-European pronouns (and more like nouns) in that they can take modifiers as any other noun may. For instance, one does not say in English: The amazed he ran down
560-679: A brief cameo appearance in the Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth spin-off title, also appearing in several other Capcom titles, including as an unlockable costume in We Love Golf! and as a collectible card in Teppen: Ace vs. The People . Pearl has appeared in other media adaptations of Ace Attorney . She is a recurring character in the Ace Attorney manga series published by Kodansha Comics , and in
700-409: A case before. He ultimately decided to have defendant Terry Fawles die during court in order for the trial to end without a verdict in order to deal with this. Mia was designed by Tatsurō Iwamoto, who originally conceived her as an older man wearing a geta. They decided to change this after determining that too many of the characters were old men, causing them to change Phoenix's mentor character to be
840-567: A character. Commenting on his appearance in Dual Destinies , Swift felt that Apollo is given the chance to have some development, believing that it allows Apollo to mature where his first title did not. Famitsu writer Kawachi felt that he started off unreliable, but felt he became reliable and cool as he progressed in Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice . GameSpot writer Diego Nicolás Argüello felt that these two games tend to ignore Apollo, as well as his backstory from his first title. He
980-437: A child, Edgeworth aspired to become a defense attorney, following in his father Gregory Edgeworth's footsteps. When they were children, Edgeworth successfully defended Phoenix in a classroom trial, where Phoenix was accused of stealing lunch money from Edgeworth himself. However, upon witnessing his father's death and watching in horror as the suspected murderer was let free, he gained a hatred for criminals and began studying to be
1120-556: A defense attorney again in July 2027. In December 2027, his best friend, Clay Terran ( 葵 大地 , Aoi Daichi ) , is murdered at the Cosmos Space Center. Suspicious of his coworker, Athena Cykes, Justice temporarily leaves the agency in order to investigate the murder alone. However, after Wright proves Cykes's innocence in court and identifies the true culprit (who is immediately shot by an unidentified sniper), Justice resumes work at
1260-563: A distance taking two hours to travel by train. Pearl returns in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations , seeing the Sacred Urn she had previously broken displayed at a department store, before it is stolen by the infamous thief Mask☆DeMasque, a.k.a. Ron DeLite . After Phoenix clears Ron of both his true theft charges and untrue murder charges, Ron's wife Desirée hugs him, leading to Pearl, having just arrived on
1400-414: A distinct language of its own that has absorbed various aspects from neighboring languages. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron ) in rōmaji , a repeated vowel character in hiragana , or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in katakana . /u/ ( listen )
1540-414: A fourth announcement planned, Takumi decided to create a new protagonist and did not plan to include Phoenix. This changed when staff suggested Phoenix be included in some form, leading him to make Phoenix the defendant in the first trial. Takumi had difficulties writing Apollo, feeling like he had used everything in his head when writing Phoenix Wright already. He ultimately made a character whose traits were
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#17331103276211680-436: A fraud. Morgan Fey ( 綾里 キミ子 , Ayasato Kimiko ) is the aunt of Mia and Maya Fey, the older sister of Misty and the mother of Dahlia Hawthorne, Iris and Pearl Fey. Winston Payne ( 亜内 武文 , Auchi Takefumi ) is a prosecutor known as the "Rookie Killer" due to winning cases against novice lawyers. He was Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice's first opponent, and the prosecutor on Mia Fey's second case. Payne appears in
1820-419: A glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant ( っ / ッ , represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda ( ん / ン , represented as N). The nasal is sensitive to its phonetic environment and assimilates to the following phoneme, with pronunciations including [ɴ, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɰ̃] . Onset-glide clusters only occur at the start of syllables but clusters across syllables are allowed as long as
1960-421: A law student, he traveled to Great Britain in an effort to learn from their legal system. Like his descendant, he believes his goal as a lawyer is to find out the truth of any given case. Susato Mikotoba ( 御琴羽 寿沙都 , Mikotoba Susato ) is a judicial assistant who often helps Ryunosuke in his cases. She is described by Capcom as a yamato nadeshiko (a personification of the image of the ideal Japanese woman),
2100-479: A listener depending on the listener's relative social position and the degree of familiarity between the speaker and the listener. When used in different social relationships, the same word may have positive (intimate or respectful) or negative (distant or disrespectful) connotations. Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it
2240-423: A more well-rounded and just prosecutor, instead of just chasing guilty verdicts. Edgeworth's spin-off game Ace Attorney Investigations was originally going to star Ema Skye , another character from the series, but due to fan response, they went with Miles Edgeworth, a more popular character. Maya Fey ( 綾里 真宵 , Ayasato Mayoi ) is a spirit medium and the younger sister of Phoenix's boss, Mia Fey . Maya
2380-515: A physical appearance in the series' fourth entry; however, she is briefly referenced in dialogue by Phoenix in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney . By Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies , set eight years after Trials and Tribulations , Pearl is a high school student, regularly keeping in touch with Phoenix and his legally adopted daughter Trucy Wright , who sees her as her "big sister." After Phoenix's new protégé Athena Cykes
2520-481: A plot to kill Maya. Mia was created by the series' creator, Shu Takumi . Originally, Takumi planned to have Mia's law office consist of a protagonist, helper, and mentor, but this changed when Takumi's boss told him to remove one, arguing that three was too many. Takumi did not want to do this, choosing to handle it by having Mia die and exist as a spirit through a spirit medium, saying that this would end up being two characters. He stated that he considered having Mia be
2660-457: A progressive dreamer, and a lover of foreign mystery novels. In contrast to a majority of assistants in the series, Susato is actually more knowledgeable on law than her older attorney counterpart, having studied the subject from a young age. Herlock Sholmes ( シャーロック・ホームズ , Shārokku Hōmuzu , Sherlock Holmes) is a famous detective who frequently assists Naruhodo in his cases with both his inventions and rapid-fire abductive reasoning . He
2800-538: A prosecutor, eventually serving as such in the final trial of Resolve . Frank Sahwit ( 山野 星雄 , Yamano Hoshio ) was a thief posing as a newspaper salesman, he was the culprit in Phoenix Wright's first case. Misty Fey ( 綾里 舞子 , Ayasato Maiko ) is the late mother of Maya and Mia Fey, she was contacted by the police to solve the DL-6 murder and went missing shortly afterwards due to being falsely accused of being
2940-404: A prosecutor, learning tactics from his mentor Manfred von Karma to always get a "guilty" verdict. This later earned him the name "demon prosecutor". Miles had not lost a case he was involved with until his first trial against Phoenix, after which he felt a need to defeat Phoenix. By the end of the first game, Miles would undergo some self-reflection, and eventually cast aside his traumas to become
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#17331103276213080-424: A protagonist in Dual Destinies . Reception for Apollo in subsequent entries was more positive. Official Nintendo Magazine writer Olivia Cottrell expressed excitement to see Apollo return in Dual Destinies , stating that she never felt he got a fair shot with only one game under his belt before then, compared to Phoenix's three and Edgeworth's two. She felt that he had not been given the chance to shine, and thus
3220-408: A sentence need not be stated and pronouns may be omitted if they can be inferred from context. In the example above, hana ga nagai would mean "[their] noses are long", while nagai by itself would mean "[they] are long." A single verb can be a complete sentence: Yatta! ( やった! ) "[I / we / they / etc] did [it]!". In addition, since adjectives can form the predicate in a Japanese sentence (below),
3360-428: A single adjective can be a complete sentence: Urayamashii! ( 羨ましい! ) "[I'm] jealous [about it]!". While the language has some words that are typically translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies on special verb forms and auxiliary verbs to indicate the direction of benefit of an action: "down" to indicate
3500-447: A spirit from the very beginning of the game, and positive reception during development spurred on this idea. The first trial was intended to be about the murder of Phoenix's mentor with Phoenix as the defendant, but this was scrapped with the idea being that the death wouldn't have an impact if the player had not met the mentor before. Thus, he introduced a new prologue with the mentor assisting Phoenix in his defense. The spirit medium angle
3640-483: A stage play based on the case Farewell, My Turnabout, portrayed by Shiyū Urushibara with understudy Yūna Takano. Pearl also appears in the Ace Attorney anime series , which adapts the events of the original trilogy. Dick Gumshoe ( 糸鋸 圭介 , Itonokogiri Keisuke ) is a homicide detective of the local police department. Despite his occupation, he is a clumsy and forgetful man who is largely seen as incompetent by
3780-418: A valuable quality in all walks of life. Eurogamer writer Jay Castello, while discussing their desire to become a lawyer as a teenager, stated that Mia was the character who drove this desire. They called her "compassionate, dedicated, and hyper-competent," and that she was the kind of person they aspired to be. Fellow Eurogamer writer John Walker called her a "wonderful" character, enjoying her presence in
3920-477: A young woman. The original old man design was repurposed for the Judge's design. When designing Maya in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice , the game's character artist, Takuro Fuse, considered making her resemble Mia now that she is grown up, ultimately coming up with a design that felt similar to Mia's while attempting to not lose Maya's charm. The theme song for Maya and Mia, "Turnabout Sisters Ballad,"
4060-624: Is compressed rather than protruded , or simply unrounded. Some Japanese consonants have several allophones , which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi] , approximately chi ( listen ) ; however, now [ti] and [tɕi] are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī [tiː] "Western-style tea" and chii [tɕii] "social status". The "r" of
4200-421: Is topic–comment . Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender , and there are no articles . Verbs are conjugated , primarily for tense and voice , but not person . Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics , with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of
4340-483: Is Phoenix Wright's adoptive daughter, introduced in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney . She is a stage magician and accompanies Apollo on his investigations. Athena Cykes ( 希月 心音 , Kizuki Kokone ) is a defense attorney and a specialist in analytical psychology. She first appears in Dual Destinies as one of the three player characters. Using her portable computer, Widget ( モニ太 , Monita ) , she
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4480-516: Is Ryunosuke's best friend and a certified lawyer in Japan, having successfully passed their bar exam. He acts as Ryunosuke's co-counsel when he is tried for murder in Japan. He invites Ryunosuke to accompany him on a trip to Great Britain to study their legal system. Unfortunately, an incident aboard the ship they traveled on results in his presumed death. However, he later resurfaces in England, studying to be
4620-798: Is a series of legal thriller comedy-drama adventure / visual novel games created by Shu Takumi . Players assume the role of a defense attorney in a fictional courtroom setting in the main series. Published by Capcom , the series includes Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All , Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations , Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney , Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth , Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit , Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies , The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures , Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice , and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve . Character names for
4760-598: Is able to access the Mood Matrix, detecting emotions from testimonies to uncover obscured facts. She often serves as co-counsel to Apollo or Phoenix, only being in charge of two separate trials herself thus far. Ryunosuke Naruhodo ( 成歩堂 龍ノ介 , Naruhodō Ryūnosuke ) is the protagonist of the Great Ace Attorney games. He is an ancestor of Phoenix Wright who lived in Japan during the Meiji Era . Although not initially
4900-445: Is accused of Misty's murder, Pearl confronts Franziska von Karma over her poor treatment of Maya, rendering her speechless , before once again channeling Mia to help Phoenix in court. In the aftermath of the trial, Pearl returns to the temple in tears to clean up gravy she had spilled on Misty's portrait; Phoenix and Maya then catch up with her, reassuring her that she is not to blame for the events that occurred. Pearl does not make
5040-445: Is also seen in o-medetō "congratulations", from medetaku ). Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan ("bread") and tabako ("tobacco", now "cigarette"), both from Portuguese . Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese,
5180-500: Is also the titular star of a series of mystery novels based on actual cases he has completed. He often puts his reasoning to the test during investigations, which Ryunosuke ends up correcting during the "dance of deduction" segments of the game. Sholmes is also roommates with Naruhodo and Susato during their stay in Great Britain, with them occupying the attic in his flat. Iris Wilson ( アイリス・ワトソン , Airisu Watoson , Iris Watson)
5320-519: Is also used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms) in Japanese writing. The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals , but also traditional Chinese numerals . Proto-Japonic , the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages , is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period ), replacing
5460-440: Is appropriate to use sensei ( 先生 , "teacher"), but inappropriate to use anata . This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status. Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect. The noun hon ( 本 ) may refer to a single book or several books; hito ( 人 ) can mean "person" or "people", and ki ( 木 ) can be "tree" or "trees". Where number
5600-474: Is arrested, Pearl visits Phoenix on her regular route to clean his office and deliver him a letter from Maya, before accompanying him in proving Athena innocent of her mother's murder, and comforts Athena after Phoenix breaks the black Psyche-Locks on her subconscious mind, representing repressed memories of secrets. In the game's DLC case, set several months earlier, Pearl is visiting Shipshape Aquarium with her summer camp before being questioned by police after
5740-684: Is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ). Dialects of Tōhoku and North Kantō are associated with typical farmers. The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands (administratively part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages. However, in contrast to linguists, many ordinary Japanese people tend to consider
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5880-462: Is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms (for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ). Among other sound changes, the sequence /au/ merges to /ɔː/ , in contrast with /oː/ ; /p/ is reintroduced from Chinese; and /we/ merges with /je/ . Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending - te begins to reduce onto
6020-509: Is correlated with the sex of the speaker and the social situation in which they are spoken: men and women alike in a formal situation generally refer to themselves as watashi ( 私 , literally "private") or watakushi (also 私 , hyper-polite form), while men in rougher or intimate conversation are much more likely to use the word ore ( 俺 "oneself", "myself") or boku . Similarly, different words such as anata , kimi , and omae ( お前 , more formally 御前 "the one before me") may refer to
6160-417: Is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word ) or (rarely) by adding a suffix, or sometimes by duplication (e.g. 人人 , hitobito , usually written with an iteration mark as 人々 ). Words for people are usually understood as singular. Thus Tanaka-san usually means Mx Tanaka . Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through
6300-742: Is introduced as the sheltered younger cousin of spirit medium and investigative assistant Maya Fey and a member of the Fey clan, a family of spirit mediums living in the isolated mountain town of Kurain Village. A spirit medium herself, after her mother Morgan Fey attempts to have Maya framed for murder in order to have Pearl succeed Maya as the Master of Kurain, Pearl channels her deceased cousin and defense attorney Mia Fey so she can guide Phoenix Wright in clearing her cousin's name and exposing Morgan's crimes. Afterwards, Pearl often accompanies Phoenix and Maya, whom she views as each holding romantic interest towards
6440-490: Is introduced in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , in which she is accused of her sister's murder and defended by Phoenix. She becomes his legal assistant and investigates cases with him in the first three Ace Attorney games. Maya cheerily banters with Phoenix during investigations, and can channel her sister's spirit when Phoenix needs her help. She does not appear in the fourth and fifth games, but returns in
6580-722: Is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility , a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tōhoku dialects ) to students from Greater Tokyo were the Kiso dialect (in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture ), the Himi dialect (in Toyama Prefecture ), the Kagoshima dialect and the Maniwa dialect (in Okayama Prefecture ). The survey
6720-547: Is murdered and her sister, Maya Fey , framed for the crime. Phoenix successfully defends Maya, and learns of both sisters having spirit channeling powers, with Maya managing to channel Mia. Mia is channeled through Maya and later their cousin Pearl Fey at various points during the series' story. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All , Mia again assists Phoenix in proving Maya's innocence after their aunt, Morgan Fey, frames Maya for murder in order to have Maya replaced as
6860-487: Is often a counterpart to him with a similar design and appearance. Apollo Justice ( 王泥喜 法介 , Odoroki Hōsuke ) is the main protagonist in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and is a major playable character in Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice . He is a defense attorney and was Phoenix Wright's understudy in the three games in which he appears. He was born in 2003 to Jove Justice and Thalassa Gramarye (thus also being Trucy Wright's biological half-brother), though after
7000-420: Is often called a topic-prominent language , which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the subject, and that the two do not always coincide. The sentence Zō wa hana ga nagai ( 象は鼻が長い ) literally means, "As for elephant(s), (the) nose(s) (is/are) long". The topic is zō "elephant", and the subject is hana "nose". Japanese grammar tends toward brevity; the subject or object of
7140-489: Is preserved in words such as matsuge ("eyelash", lit. "hair of the eye"); modern mieru ("to be visible") and kikoeru ("to be audible") retain a mediopassive suffix - yu(ru) ( kikoyu → kikoyuru (the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period) → kikoeru (all verbs with the shimo-nidan conjugation pattern underwent this same shift in Early Modern Japanese )); and
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#17331103276217280-440: Is the assistant and adoptive daughter of Herlock Sholmes. She is a child prodigy, most notably penning 'The Adventures of Herlock Sholmes' and holding a medical degree at the age of 10. Like Sholmes, she frequently assists Ryunosuke in the investigative portion of his cases, and even once stood alongside him in court. Barok van Zieks ( バロック・バンジークス , Barokku Banjīkusu ) is a feared prosecutor in Great Britain. He has earned
7420-646: Is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people . It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan , the only country where it is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language . There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as
7560-402: Is the version of Japanese discussed in this article. Formerly, standard Japanese in writing ( 文語 , bungo , "literary language") was different from colloquial language ( 口語 , kōgo ) . The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary. Bungo was the main method of writing Japanese until about 1900; since then kōgo gradually extended its influence and
7700-407: Is to defend Phoenix for murder. He subsequently appeared in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice , where he is one of three playable protagonists, alongside Phoenix Wright and Athena Cykes . He has the power to detect tells using a special bracelet, and during Apollo Justice , he faces off against prosecutor Klavier Gavin . Apollo
7840-471: Is used for the present and the future. For verbs that represent an ongoing process, the -te iru form indicates a continuous (or progressive) aspect , similar to the suffix ing in English. For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. For example, kite iru means "They have come (and are still here)", but tabete iru means "They are eating". Questions (both with an interrogative pronoun and yes/no questions) have
7980-405: Is why some linguists do not classify Japanese "pronouns" as pronouns, but rather as referential nouns, much like Spanish usted (contracted from vuestra merced , "your ( majestic plural ) grace") or Portuguese você (from vossa mercê ). Japanese personal pronouns are generally used only in situations requiring special emphasis as to who is doing what to whom. The choice of words used as pronouns
8120-555: The Ainu , Austronesian , Koreanic , and the now-discredited Altaic , but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered
8260-455: The Japonic language family, which also includes the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands . As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate . According to Martine Irma Robbeets , Japanese has been subject to more attempts to show its relation to other languages than any other language in
8400-504: The Philippines , and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. As a result, many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil , with 1.4 million to 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than
8540-716: The United States (notably in Hawaii , where 16.7% of the population has Japanese ancestry, and California ), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao Region and the Province of Laguna ). Japanese has no official status in Japan, but is the de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard : hyōjungo ( 標準語 ) , meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo ( 共通語 ) , "common language", or even "Tokyo dialect" at times. The meanings of
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#17331103276218680-794: The de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect , especially that of Kyoto . However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages—such as German, Portuguese and English. Many English loan words especially relate to technology—for example, pasokon (short for "personal computer"), intānetto ("internet"), and kamera ("camera"). Due to
8820-406: The "Lamiroir" name as a cover. Apollo reappears as one of three playable characters in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies , alongside Phoenix Wright and Athena Cykes . He defends multiple people in court, ultimately defending someone accused of murdering his childhood friend, Clay Terran. He becomes suspicious of Athena due to his bracelet reacting to Athena's denial of not having seen
8960-518: The 1.2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 12% of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12.6% of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008. Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru , Argentina , Australia (especially in the eastern states), Canada (especially in Vancouver , where 1.4% of the population has Japanese ancestry),
9100-477: The English release of the series were changed significantly from the original Japanese release. Phoenix Wright ( 成歩堂 龍一 , Naruhodō Ryūichi ) is a defense attorney and the main character of the franchise, and the protagonist in all games in the main series, except for Apollo Justice. Mia Fey ( 綾里 千尋 , Ayasato Chihiro ) first appeared in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney as Phoenix's boss and mentor at Fey and Co. Law Offices, assisting him before she
9240-482: The Japanese language is of particular interest, ranging between an apical central tap and a lateral approximant . The "g" is also notable; unless it starts a sentence, it may be pronounced [ ŋ ] , in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects. The phonotactics of Japanese are relatively simple. The syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), that is, a core vowel surrounded by an optional onset consonant,
9380-450: The Kingdom of Khura'in, she is greeted by Pearl, who unsuccessfully pitches the concept of allowing clothing stores to set up in the town. In the non-canon DLC case Asinine Attorney , Pearl appears on vacation in the Kingdom of Khu'rain, briefly impersonating royal priestess Rayfa Padma Khura'in to prevent them from being kidnapped. Outside of the main Ace Attorney series, Pearl makes
9520-724: The Old Japanese sections are written in Man'yōgana , which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct morae . Texts written with Man'yōgana use two different sets of kanji for each of the morae now pronounced き (ki), ひ (hi), み (mi), け (ke), へ (he), め (me), こ (ko), そ (so), と (to), の (no), も (mo), よ (yo) and ろ (ro). (The Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87. The distinction between mo 1 and mo 2 apparently
9660-488: The Ryūkyūan languages as dialects of Japanese. The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time, most likely the spoken form of Classical Japanese , a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period , but began to decline during the late Meiji period . The Ryūkyūan languages are classified by UNESCO as 'endangered', as young people mostly use Japanese and cannot understand
9800-543: The addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi , but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company". A group described as Tanaka-san-tachi may include people not named Tanaka. Some Japanese nouns are effectively plural, such as hitobito "people" and wareware "we/us", while the word tomodachi "friend" is considered singular, although plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which
9940-458: The agency. In April 2028, he meets Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, who is now a prosecutor, for the first time in fourteen years. Justice successfully defends Trucy Wright against Sahdmadhi; however, one month later, after successfully defending Dhurke Sahdmadhi in a civil case against Phoenix Wright, he returns to Khura'in and is once again reunited with the prosecutor. There, he successfully defends his foster father against two counts of murder. However, during
10080-513: The aquarium's owner is apparently murdered. Subsequently, Pearl runs into Phoenix and Athena, introducing herself to the latter before recharging Phoenix's magatama , it having finally run out of spiritual energy after she had first charged it for him upon meeting him nine years prior. After an orca and subsequently their trainer are accused of the murder, Pearl assists Phoenix and Athena in their investigation, retrieving forensics equipment Phoenix had previously received from Ema Skye . Months after
10220-449: The backstory he was given in it. She particularly felt that he evolved from being a rookie to coming into his own through the events of the game. VG247 writer Alex Donaldson compared the situation between Apollo and Phoenix to the one between Rey and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars , believing that both Phoenix and Luke were "impossible" to follow up with new protagonists. He felt that he did not manage to come into his own, believing by
10360-402: The defense if they present incorrect evidence, at times even increasing the severity of the penalty. If the player incurs too many penalties, the game will end and their client will typically be found guilty. He is easily swayed by arguments, which both the defense and prosecution will use to their advantage. In spite of his foibles, he is said to always hand down the correct verdict, earning him
10500-564: The effect of changing Japanese into a mora-timed language. Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period , respectively. The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries; and thus there
10640-524: The end of the trilogy that he felt "short-changed." He believed that Takumi's involvement in Apollo Justice made the title feel more "confident," while the other two, which he was not involved with, returned to the status quo of Phoenix. Donaldson begrudged that he did not get more importance in these two games, though felt that he was a great character regardless. Japanese language Japanese ( 日本語 , Nihongo , [ɲihoŋɡo] )
10780-493: The first case of the first four mainline games. Larry Butz ( 矢張 政志 , Yahari Masashi ) is the childhood friend of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth who always causes trouble. He was the defendant in Wright's first case as a lawyer. He later reappears in various other cases across the series, often accidentally stumbling upon significant clues which help decide the trial's outcome. Manfred von Karma ( 狩魔 豪 , Karuma Gō )
10920-455: The flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, and words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative , mora -timed language with relatively simple phonotactics , a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent . Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure
11060-569: The former's death in 2005, he was adopted by Dhurke Sahdmadhi, a defense attorney at the time, and was raised alongside Sahdmadhi's son Nahyuta in the Kingdom of Khura'in. In 2012, Justice was sent to a boarding school in America, where he met his best friend Clay Terran, an aspiring astronaut. In April 2026, he defended his first client, Phoenix Wright, in court under the supervision of his mentor Kristoph Gavin; however, this trial ended in Gavin's conviction as
11200-500: The fridge," stating that she remains "strong, powerful, and utterly unfazed by her own murder," as well as a superior lawyer to Phoenix. Miles Edgeworth ( 御剣 怜侍 , Mitsurugi Reiji ) is Phoenix Wright's long-time friend and first rival in the court room. He is temporarily playable in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations and the main player character in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit . As
11340-479: The game while expressing that he had a lot of affection for her as a female video game character. Game Revolution writer Joe Dodson discussed her sexuality, particularly noting that her breasts were particularly large and commenting on how weird it is that she can possess Pearl, an eight-year-old, giving her breasts. Nintendo Life writer Kate Gray also commented on Mia's design when channeled by Pearl, calling it creepy. On Mia's character, she felt that Mia's death
11480-466: The game's design, though the reason for these features went through significant changes across the game's development. The jacket was originally intended to tie into Apollo's birth father, with another concept being that it belonged to an organization Apollo joined. Another concept for Apollo's story in this game was to have him seduced by a female prosecutor to the dark side of the law, a concept repurposed for another character interaction with Apollo, though
11620-609: The genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech. Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period , from 794 to 1185. It formed the basis for the literary standard of Classical Japanese , which remained in common use until the early 20th century. During this time, Japanese underwent numerous phonological developments, in many cases instigated by an influx of Chinese loanwords . These included phonemic length distinction for both consonants and vowels , palatal consonants (e.g. kya ) and labial consonant clusters (e.g. kwa ), and closed syllables . This had
11760-447: The intricacies of the wristwatch's design, people believed the item was significant, leading Takumi to create the perception mechanic. The accessory was originally conceived as an eye-shaped wristwatch before it became a bracelet. When designing Apollo and his role in Dual Destinies , they wanted to make players ask what happened to Apollo between Apollo Justice and this game. His stoic attitude, jacket, and eye cover were made early on in
11900-430: The language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese . Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords . The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo ) in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid 19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853,
12040-453: The languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language . Because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence, and anything that can be discerned about this period must be based on internal reconstruction from Old Japanese , or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects . The Chinese writing system
12180-449: The languages. Okinawan Japanese is a variant of Standard Japanese influenced by the Ryūkyūan languages, and is the primary dialect spoken among young people in the Ryukyu Islands . Modern Japanese has become prevalent nationwide (including the Ryūkyū islands) due to education , mass media , and an increase in mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration. Japanese is a member of
12320-427: The large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between [tɕi] and [ti] , and [dʑi] and [di] , with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has also been spoken outside of the country. Before and during World War II , through Japanese annexation of Taiwan and Korea , as well as partial occupation of China ,
12460-534: The master of the spirit channeling technique by Pearl. Mia appears again in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations , where her backstory is explored, particularly her defending Phoenix for murder and proving a woman named Dahlia Hawthorne was the true culprit. It is later revealed that Dahlia was involved in her first trial, causing the death of her defendant and getting away with her crimes before also poisoning her lover, Diego Armando . She later assists Phoenix in defeating Dahlia after Dahlia attempts
12600-504: The moniker 'Reaper of the Bailey' with a majority of those he prosecutes dying after the trial, regardless of whether or not their guilt was proven in court. A thoroughbred aristocrat, van Zieks often tosses bottles of wine and flashes the heels of his high end boots in court. He is notably bigoted towards the Japanese, though he grows to respect Ryunosuke during their many trials against each other. Kazuma Asogi ( 亜双義 一真 , Asōgi Kazuma )
12740-415: The murder weapon before. This caused Apollo to wear a bandage over one of his eyes to prevent himself from being able to see any of Cyke's tells. During his defense, a bomb was found in the courtroom, exploding and injuring Apollo. He took a leave of absence after the case involving the bombing, with Phoenix proving his client's innocence using evidence that ended up implicating Athena. Apollo accused Athena of
12880-513: The murder, prompting Phoenix to prove him wrong, which he ultimately does. Together, they prove who the true killer is. The three protagonists reappear in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice , where he defends Trucy for murder, once again working with Ema, who had become a forensic technician. He faced off against prosecutor Nahyuta Sahdmadhi , whom Apollo had met 15 years prior. After proving Trucy's innocence, he confronted Nahyuta, saying that he had changed since they last met. During
13020-512: The nickname, "The Great Judgini." While this is true in his onscreen trials, it is usually thanks to the attorneys rather than himself. He has a younger brother, also a judge, who behaves similarly and uses Canadian slang. The Judge is a fixture of the Ace Attorney series, appearing in every mainline game, being the only character except for Phoenix to do so. Even in the spinoff games where he does not appear (such as The Great Ace Attorney ), there
13160-425: The only strict rule of word order is that the verb must be placed at the end of a sentence (possibly followed by sentence-end particles). This is because Japanese sentence elements are marked with particles that identify their grammatical functions. The basic sentence structure is topic–comment . For example, Kochira wa Tanaka-san desu ( こちらは田中さんです ). kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by
13300-506: The opposite of Phoenix's, making him "aggressive, passionate, and youthful." He was designed by Kazuya Nuri, and was the first protagonist Nuri had designed. His goal was to create a character who can be both cool and easy to get attached to with his expressions. He borrowed elements from Phoenix's face and incorporated them in Apollo's. His bracelet was originally a wristwatch, added due to his arms feeling empty due to his rolled up sleeves. Due to
13440-650: The original Japanese version of the game, she lived in the United States rather than Germany. Ema Skye ( 宝月 茜 , Hōzuki Akane ) is the younger sister of Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye and has hopes of becoming a scientific investigator . She first approaches Phoenix 's office to obtain a defense attorney for her sister, Lana. Though he ignored most of the cases he received during Maya 's two-month absence, he took Ema's due to her resemblance to Maya in personality and appearance. The kanji for her Japanese surname, Hōzuki , translates to "treasured moon" or "jeweled moon". She
13580-535: The other (as their "special someone"), because of her sheltered upbringing. At one point, they take Pearl to the Berry Big Circus. Nine months after her mother's arrest, Pearl, Maya and Phoenix are invited to an awards show at the Gatewater Imperial Hotel, where Maya is kidnapped by notorious hired hitman Shelly de Killer and Phoenix is made to defend his employer Matt Engarde and have him receive
13720-470: The out-group gives a benefit to the in-group, and "up" to indicate the in-group gives a benefit to the out-group. Here, the in-group includes the speaker and the out-group does not, and their boundary depends on context. For example, oshiete moratta ( 教えてもらった ) (literally, "explaining got" with a benefit from the out-group to the in-group) means "[he/she/they] explained [it] to [me/us]". Similarly, oshiete ageta ( 教えてあげた ) (literally, "explaining gave" with
13860-415: The particle wa . The verb desu is a copula , commonly translated as "to be" or "it is" (though there are other verbs that can be translated as "to be"), though technically it holds no meaning and is used to give a sentence 'politeness'. As a phrase, Tanaka-san desu is the comment. This sentence literally translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mx Tanaka." Thus Japanese, like many other Asian languages,
14000-404: The pianist for singer Lamiroir, before defending someone for murder as part of a test of the jurist system . It is discovered that this case is connected to the case where Phoenix lost his badge, and Apollo successfully gets Kristoph convicted of the murder after the jury finds Kristoph guilty. Unbeknownst to Apollo, he and Trucy are half-siblings, with their mother being Thalassa Gramarye, who used
14140-477: The proposed larger Altaic family, or to various Southeast Asian languages , especially Austronesian . None of these proposals have gained wide acceptance (and the Altaic family itself is now considered controversial). As it stands, only the link to Ryukyuan has wide support. Other theories view the Japanese language as an early creole language formed through inputs from at least two distinct language groups, or as
14280-580: The prosecutors, frequently resulting in his salary being lowered. As a result, he lives in poor circumstances. Despite this, he is a friendly man who is determined to find the killer and is fiercely loyal to Miles Edgeworth, and eventually comes to be a trusted ally of Phoenix Wright as well. Franziska von Karma ( 狩魔 冥 , Karuma Mei ) is a prosecuting attorney and the daughter of Manfred von Karma . Franziska first appears in Justice for All as an antagonist to protagonist Phoenix Wright , specifically in
14420-441: The protagonist and defense attorney to former series protagonist, Phoenix Wright , who was no longer a defense attorney after an incident seven years ago. He is mentored by Kristoph Gavin , an associate of Phoenix's. During a cross-examination, Apollo discovers an ability to focus on tells in significant detail, allowing him to use them to get more information from witnesses. Eventually, Phoenix presents evidence of Kristoph being
14560-459: The same structure as affirmative sentences, but with intonation rising at the end. In the formal register, the question particle -ka is added. For example, ii desu ( いいです ) "It is OK" becomes ii desu-ka ( いいですか。 ) "Is it OK?". In a more informal tone sometimes the particle -no ( の ) is added instead to show a personal interest of the speaker: Dōshite konai-no? "Why aren't (you) coming?". Some simple queries are formed simply by mentioning
14700-546: The scene, knocking Phoenix out, after mistakenly believing him to have been cheating on Maya. Sometime later, after visiting her mother in prison and travelling with Phoenix and Maya to a mountain retreat, Pearl is tricked by her mother into attempting to channel her deceased half-sister Dahlia Hawthorne to have her kill Maya, only to be saved by her aunt, Misty Fey , who had disappeared many years prior, and Mia's former boyfriend Godot , who had been rendered comatose many years prior. Later, while Pearl's other half-sister Iris
14840-537: The second episode. She is a prodigy prosecuting attorney, becoming an attorney in Germany at the age of 13, going undefeated until she was 18. She seeks to get revenge on Phoenix, who presumes this to be because he defeated her father, Manfred von Karma. She is typically seen holding a whip and using it on others, in and out of court. She tends to use the word "fool" to describe others, and has a cold personality. Phoenix defeats her in two trials, causing her great frustration. In
14980-488: The seduction was significantly more subdued. When localizing Apollo Justice , localizer Janet Hsu stated that the name Apollo was chosen due in part to Phoenix being named after the legendary bird of the same name . Hsu named him after the god Apollo , feeling that the god's connection to the sun and truth fit Apollo's personality. The name "Justice" was chosen to reflect his pursuit of justice as opposed to Phoenix Wright's aspiration to defend his clients' rights. His surname
15120-610: The sixth, reuniting with Phoenix in Khura'in as she prepares to complete her channeling training. Maya also appears in other franchise media: the manga, film , anime series , and the spin-off games including the Professor Layton crossover and Ace Attorney Investigations . Maya, alongside Phoenix, also makes cameo appearances in several games across other genres. Pearl Fey (綾里 春美, Ayasato Harumi ) first appears in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All , where she
15260-439: The speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters , known as kanji ( 漢字 , ' Han characters') , with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters: hiragana ( ひらがな or 平仮名 , 'simple characters') and katakana ( カタカナ or 片仮名 , 'partial characters'). Latin script ( rōmaji ローマ字 )
15400-797: The state as at the time the constitution was written, many of the elders participating in the process had been educated in Japanese during the South Seas Mandate over the island shown by the 1958 census of the Trust Territory of the Pacific that found that 89% of Palauans born between 1914 and 1933 could speak and read Japanese, but as of the 2005 Palau census there were no residents of Angaur that spoke Japanese at home. Japanese dialects typically differ in terms of pitch accent , inflectional morphology , vocabulary , and particle usage. Some even differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although this
15540-476: The street. (grammatically incorrect insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte itta. (grammatically correct) This is partly because these words evolved from regular nouns, such as kimi "you" ( 君 "lord"), anata "you" ( あなた "that side, yonder"), and boku "I" ( 僕 "servant"). This
15680-518: The third episode, Phoenix learns that Apollo and Nahyuta were foster brothers, and their father was Dhurke Sahdmadhi. Apollo was later visited by his foster father, who he assisted in finding an item called the Founder's Orb. After securing it, Apollo visited the Kingdom of Khura'in, his childhood home, and was forced to defend Dhurke for murder. During the trial, Apollo discovered that Dhurke was actually dead, with his spirit being channeled by Queen Amara, who
15820-555: The topic with an interrogative intonation to call for the hearer's attention: Kore wa? "(What about) this?"; O-namae wa? ( お名前は？ ) "(What's your) name?". Negatives are formed by inflecting the verb. For example, Pan o taberu ( パンを食べる。 ) "I will eat bread" or "I eat bread" becomes Pan o tabenai ( パンを食べない。 ) "I will not eat bread" or "I do not eat bread". Plain negative forms are i -adjectives (see below) and inflect as such, e.g. Pan o tabenakatta ( パンを食べなかった。 ) "I did not eat bread". Nahyuta Sahdmadhi Ace Attorney
15960-451: The trial of Will Powers. She tends to give lengthy speeches and irritate both Wright and Edgeworth. She has been known to crush on younger men including Edgeworth, and the deceased actors, Jack Hammer and Juan Corrida. Will Powers ( 荷星 三郎 , Niboshi Saburō ) is an actor under Global Studios, best known for the tokusatsu show, Steel Samurai. He was one of Wright's clients, having been accused of murdering Jack Hammer. He later served as
16100-533: The trial's conclusion (the death having been proven to be accidental in nature), Pearl revisits the aquarium with Phoenix, Athena, Trucy, and Apollo Justice . In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice , Pearl briefly appears in Kurain Village after Apollo visits it with his deceased adoptive father Dhurke Sahdmadhi (channeled by Maya), providing them with directions to a cave they were searching for. After Maya finally returns from her medium studies in
16240-528: The trial, he learns that Dhurke was actually murdered himself just days prior, and was being channeled by Maya Fey in the intervening time. The trial results in Queen Ga'ran's deposition, and Justice decides to stay in Khura'in to run Dhurke's old law office, now known as the Justice Law Offices. Trucy Wright ( 成歩堂 みぬき , Naruhodō Minuki ) , born Trucy Enigmar ( 奈々伏 みぬき , Nanafushi Minuki ) ,
16380-548: The true killer, leading to Kristoph's confession, though Apollo learns this evidence was forged, making Apollo angry. Apollo eventually accepts work under Phoenix, where he meets Trucy Wright , Phoenix's daughter. While defending another client, he meets Kristoph's brother, Klavier Gavin , a prosecutor and musician, and Apollo's opponent for all subsequent trials in Apollo Justice . Trucy teaches Apollo that his power of perception comes from his bracelet, and he ultimately proves his client not guilty. He and Trucy defend another client,
16520-543: The true perpetrator of the crime. Two months later, he joins the Wright Talent Agency, which is then renamed the Wright Anything Agency, and defends three more clients against his former mentor's brother, prosecutor Klavier Gavin. While defending the last of these clients, Justice proves that Kristoph Gavin was behind the forgery that led to Wright's disbarment, allowing Wright to retake the bar exam and become
16660-419: The two consonants are the moraic nasal followed by a homorganic consonant. Japanese also includes a pitch accent , which is not represented in moraic writing; for example [haꜜ.ɕi] ("chopsticks") and [ha.ɕiꜜ] ("bridge") are both spelled はし ( hashi ) , and are only differentiated by the tone contour. Japanese word order is classified as subject–object–verb . Unlike many Indo-European languages ,
16800-577: The two methods were both used in writing until the 1940s. Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers (many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo , although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language). Kōgo is the dominant method of both speaking and writing Japanese today, although bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect. The 1982 state constitution of Angaur , Palau , names Japanese along with Palauan and English as an official language of
16940-472: The two terms (''hyōjungo'' and ''kyōtsūgo'') are almost the same. Hyōjungo or kyōtsūgo is a conception that forms the counterpart of dialect. This normative language was born after the Meiji Restoration ( 明治維新 , meiji ishin , 1868) from the language spoken in the higher-class areas of Tokyo (see Yamanote ). Hyōjungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications. It
17080-407: The verb (e.g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the -k- in the final mora of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form (e.g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ , where modern Japanese just has hayaku , though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu "good morning"; this ending
17220-548: The world. Since Japanese first gained the consideration of linguists in the late 19th century, attempts have been made to show its genealogical relation to languages or language families such as Ainu , Korean , Chinese , Tibeto-Burman , Uralic , Altaic (or Ural-Altaic ), Austroasiatic , Austronesian and Dravidian . At the fringe, some linguists have even suggested a link to Indo-European languages , including Greek , or to Sumerian . Main modern theories try to link Japanese either to northern Asian languages, like Korean or
17360-501: Was a ruthless perfectionist prosecutor who maintained a perfect trial record for 40 years. He is the mentor of Miles Edgeworth and father of Franziska von Karma. He serves as the prosecutor in charge of the final case of the first game, and makes appearances in the Investigations sub-series during flashbacks to the past. Wendy Oldbag ( 大場 カオル , Ōba Kaoru ) is an elderly security guard first seen working for Global Studios during
17500-423: Was a shallow one. GamesRadar+ writer Carolyn Gudmundson felt similarly lukewarm about Apollo in his debut game, noting that while she may be biased due to Phoenix "[setting the bar] impossibly high" for him, she felt he lacked charm and depth. She felt that Klavier was both deeper and more likable. Waypoint writer Steven Wright felt that the backlash to Apollo being the protagonist prompted Phoenix to return as
17640-535: Was based on 12- to 20-second-long recordings of 135 to 244 phonemes , which 42 students listened to and translated word-for-word. The listeners were all Keio University students who grew up in the Kanto region . There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island , whose dialects are descended from Eastern Old Japanese . Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular
17780-441: Was created by Shu Takumi as a new protagonist, meant to be "aggressive, passionate, and youthful" in contrast to Phoenix, and he was designed by Kazuya Nuri. His design in Dual Destinies was meant to make players question what happened to him between Apollo Justice and this. His English name comes from the god Apollo and his belief in justice. Apollo received generally mixed reception, with multiple critics feeling that Apollo
17920-420: Was critical of Apollo's handling in Apollo Justice , believing that he and Trucy Wright lacked chemistry despite spending so much time together. He felt that the duo was a case of the blind leading the blind, as Apollo was new and Trucy was "unconcerned." He also felt that, because the story was so centered around Phoenix, Apollo wound up upstaged by him, preventing Apollo from developing or establishing himself as
18060-461: Was critical of both entries for introducing new backstories involving an old friend and family in the country of Khura'in instead of expanding on the plot involving his family introduced in Apollo Justice . He argued that these new plots bore "little thematic relevance to his character, if any." Game Informer writer Elise Favis considered Apollo her favorite character in Spirit of Justice , appreciating
18200-522: Was decided on by a collaboration between the Japanese and American divisions. Apollo has received generally mixed reception, particularly for his role in his debut game. Adventure Gamers writer Kim Wild found difficulty investing herself in Apollo as a character, feeling he lacks the same impact as Phoenix in his trilogy of games. She felt that he never got a chance to shine due to being in Phoenix's shadow, believing he had room to grow but that his introduction
18340-718: Was imported to Japan from Baekje around the start of the fifth century, alongside Buddhism. The earliest texts were written in Classical Chinese , although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text, the Kojiki , dates to the early eighth century, and was written entirely in Chinese characters, which are used to represent, at different times, Chinese, kanbun , and Old Japanese. As in other texts from this period,
18480-452: Was included in the video game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney due to the developers' desire to bring back some familiar faces to it, where she became a homicide detective after failing to qualify for her dream job. As a result, she became moodier and addicted to a chocolate treat called "Snackoos." In Spirit of Justice , she finally passed the test to become a forensic investigator and lightens up. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
18620-465: Was lost immediately following its composition.) This set of morae shrank to 67 in Early Middle Japanese , though some were added through Chinese influence. Man'yōgana also has a symbol for /je/ , which merges with /e/ before the end of the period. Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no )
18760-476: Was meant to teach players not to take anything for granted, comparing this scene to a later case where Phoenix's client turns out to be guilty. She felt that this twist was written with the idea that you'd grown complacent. On Mia, she discussed whether Mia falls under the women in refrigerators writing trope, where women are killed, abused, or otherwise harmed as a motivation for the player or protagonist. She argued that while she fit this trope, she doesn't "stay in
18900-501: Was not as popular in the Ace Attorney fandom. She hoped that his appearance in Dual Destinies would help him become more popular, hoping that he isn't made to be a side character in this game. Rock Paper Shotgun writer Katharine Castle felt that Apollo spent the Apollo Justice Trilogy in Phoenix's shadow, arguing that his character suffered from Capcom not knowing what to do with his character. Paste writer Stephen Swift
19040-487: Was originally to star Ema Skye, but due to the response from the fanbase, they chose to replace her with Miles Edgeworth, who was a much more popular character. Instead, she was featured as a secondary character in both Investigations games. The unnamed Judge ( 裁判長 , Saibanchō ) presides over the vast majority of trials shown in the Ace Attorney series. He is a naïve older man whose age and poor hearing lead to him misunderstanding statements in court. He will penalize
19180-399: Was originally written to be cheerier, but once Mia's death was written, the song was changed by adding a semitonal chord shift to the main part of the song to express sadness. Mia Fey has received generally positive reception. Dengeki writer Ayana felt that her words to Phoenix, to reverse his way of thinking, resonated with her, feeling that being able to change one's way of thinking was
19320-532: Was overshadowed by Phoenix in his own game and that it prevented him from having time to develop his own character. Phoenix's return as a playable character in Dual Destinies was believed to be due to fan response by a writer from Waypoint . Apollo's role in the subsequent entries was met with more positive reception, with multiple critics feeling that he was given more time to shine, though some critics still felt that he should have had more time to develop. Apollo first appears in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney as
19460-454: Was planned to be used only in the first game, but expanded this aspect in the second and third games, where the third entry became centered around spirit mediums. Takumi expressed worry, when designing her younger self for Trials and Tribulations , about pulling it off properly. When designing the fourth episode of Trials and Tribulations , Takumi wanted Mia to face off against Edgeworth, but experienced complications due to both having not lost
19600-428: Was thought dead. He is able to prove both the murder was done by the current queen, Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, as well as proving she was the one to kill his birth father when he was young. Apollo Justice was created by Shu Takumi , creator of the Ace Attorney series. After the completion of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy , he believed that Phoenix's story was complete, ending the series. Years later, with
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