Take the tour ×  In this question, it seems to me it was clearly
established that , at the end of a sentence, is decidedly
feminine. There was talk of a kansai-ben with slightly different
implications, but still within a range of femininity.  So, I'm
reading Tintin in Japanese, as I do, and I come across the
character Captain Haddock using :  Haddock saying wa  The
situation is that he is on a plane that has dropped altitude
suddenly, so his ears were plugged. They just popped, and he
feels スッキリ("refreshed").  For those who don't know Captain
Haddock, he is a gruff old sailor, who is not at all given to
feminine speech. Quite the opposite. This expression really
stands out.  Also, to the best of my ability to detect it, he
does not use kansai-ben, which I only mention because of the
discussion of kansai-ben in the other question.  So why did the
translator opt to have the Captain use to end the sentence here?
Is it an ironic use of feminine speech? Does it have another use
I'm not aware of?  share|improve thi