Meh well I think anyone in the US would find Miles Edgeworth stranger than Reiji Mitserugi or Phoenix Wright stranger than Ryuuichi Naruhodou.
I always kinda thought Edgeworth would have had a british accent for some reason… probably due to his frilly clothes and all...
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The Fey clan is now over the whole Misty debacle and is getting business again. Maya would be more than a little busy as the Master, and I doubt Pearl would want to leave her side.
I miss Gumshoe. Larry can rot.
von Karma was probably executed from what we can gather in game 2, and Godot didn't have long to live either way. It's never explicitly stated, but they lean towards it. There's really no need to revisit them, anyways. They need to focus more on the new characters. Possibly fleshing them out so they don't completely suck.
Not in the case of Apollo Justice.
What about Edgeworth and Fransizka though? We never really find out whatever happened to them.