Did you watch it with the Japanese voice acting? Typically when I watch an anime or something foreign and the characters sound awful, I find the source material is usually less forced/terrible sounding than the localization
It's the affectation, it's not the voices or the acting, it's just the way the dialog is written, it would bother me on mute as well.
It's the standard anime trope of the character being a complete fish out of water and also being a complete moron about it. Being
absolutely flabbergasted by every new piece of information that is common knowledge in that universe, being incredibly astonished by everyday occurrences, and repeating every new keyword or phrase they hear in total and complete bewilderment, allowing others to elaborate and infodump, or just look like the character is weighing a completely new and hitherto unknown word such as "
candy".
The "audience surrogate n00b" trope is useful to introduce viewers to the cartoon universe and its rules and mechanics, but it makes
absolutely no sense when the character is supposed to be a local, or supposed to be an expert on the subject. It is a proud Pokemon tradition, started by Ash who didn't know
a single Arceusdamned thing about Pokemon and was completely fucking
stunned to learn
anything, which happened about three times per episode. "Huh? Starter Pokemon?" "Huh? Rattata?" "Huh? Bicycle?" Yeah, okay, we're introducing kids to the world of Pokemon, but isn't Ash supposed to be some eager beaver who's been devouring every bit of Pokemon info in preparation for his journey? Nope, he's an idiot who ran out blind and has to be told what a fucking Pokedex is.
And even if he needed to have everything spelled out for him, they could have handled it better than the "huuuuh? Ubiquitous everyday object?" affectation.
So it's a proud Pokemon tradition and it's been getting on my tits.
By the time the spa owner said "concierge" and the girl repeated it in that tone of idiotic astonishment, I was about ready to throw the remote at the TV.
I did manage to finish the show and it does get better by the end but eh.
At least it looks nice.