In a message dated 98-07-18 02:39:30 EDT, you write:

Does anyone know where exactly Akari hails from?  Does she have 
any kind of an accent?

Hmm... that's a good question.  I've written about Akari-chan a couple
of times, and in those cases, planted her as being somewhere in either
Hokkaido or northern Honshu (well, you know Ryoga's gauge of location).
I understand they raise dairy cattle in Hokkaido, and sorta drew a parallel
with the state of Wisconsin (heh... now ya know that I run the Ucchan 
Midwest, ne?)  Nobody's ever argued with me on that point, in any case. 
Call it a fanfic convention.  Of course, if somebody *can* correct me, 
by all means, do so...

Itsu mo,
Ucchan  ^_^