@ekg what nonsense does Yashiro speak? Shibuya ben??
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I don’t think that makes much sense. Tokyo dialect is known for the lack of distinction between shi/hi and no character in Death Note speaks like that. Frankly, they don’t really have a dialect that I know of. They just do the “no obvious dialect” thing that is really common in anime as a standard dialect. Not sure what it’s called? Standard Japanese??
Just because something takes place in Tokyo, doesn’t really mean that’s the dialect of the characters.
(we have the concept of “rikssvenska” in Sweden, so something similar to that)
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Let me get back to you on that one…gotta run now! ^^
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Tokyo has two main dialects, Yamanote and Shitamachi. You sound like you’re referring to the Shitamachi dialect here - one of the other most noticeable factors is ～ない ＞ ～ねー.
Yamanote dialect, on the other hand, is Standard Japanese. For all intents and purposes. (More specifically, Standard Japanese is based on Meiji-era Yamanote dialect, though there’s some differences, among which is the whole keigo system comes from Kyoto dialect, since the Yamanote dialect lacked it at the time. For example, ～ください was ～あそばせ in Meiji Yamanote dialect, while ございます became ざます or even ざんす.)
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A good anime for the Shitamachi dialect of Tokyo is Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
All of the rakugoka in it speak it, and it’s a pretty good representation of it. This is an older reddit post discussing it:
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Thanks for clearing that out. I just remembered hearing a voice actor talking about Tokyo dialect as not distinguishing between shi/hi - he was himself talking Tokyo-ben. But, yeah, I get the picture that what voice actors in general use in anime is standard Japanese, not necessarily a clear dialect. Kansai-ben gets used quite a lot, as it’s a clear contrast. Or Osaka-ben. Other dialects are much more rare. 
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