Osaka people speak a dialect of Japanese with the vocabulary and the accentuation different from the standard Japanese.
Moreover, Osaka people love jokes and always watch for a chance of being popular.
That causes Osaka people a trouble with other district Japanese people.
For example, if an Osaka man tells a Tokyo woman that he will go back to Kyoto the next week and she asks him why he will go, the Osaka man might say "I will go to the Shrine with the Chain of Six Small Gates."(Osaka dialect: Roku-Turane no Torii no Hokora he ikun ya.)
Immediately she will rage at his words, if she knows the meaning of the Chain of Six Small Shrines.
In the meantime, Osaka people will laughed at the joke with the following words: "Stick to it!"(Osaka dialect: Ganbari ya.), "Give Kenshin my respects!"(Osaka dialect: Kenshin ni yoroshiku.), "You must be joking!"(Osaka dialect: Mata Aho-na Koto iu te.)

Now the Osaka people lose interest in provocation.
What does "Sakakibara-Seito" have in his heart?
On the one hand the criminal told us he detested compulsory education, on the other he butchered the weaker.
His written challenge without a profound thought made us unmoved.

It is thought that this "Sakakibara-Seito" as well as the famous creators of "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series is non-political generation and has not experienced political strife by university students in 60's and 70's.
Their generation has not experienced investigating thoroughly and being worried about appealing to arms.

The generation animated an established theory about mankind's frets. That is the Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The criminal might act theoretically, caused this result, and could not get Osaka people over his side.
Osaka people do not sympathize with a fake Robin Hood.


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