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Franz, known in the Japanese version as Vance (バンス、bansu), is a dolphin-like demi-human who serves at the Yggdrasil's radio, radar and sonar operator. He is capable of determining the nature of all sorts of complex and abstract noises. He resembles Hans, the First Officer of the Thames.
Concept art of Franz
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Franz and Vance appear to have swapped names in the English localization. This breaks the naming scheme between the three dolphin demi-humans, Franz (バンス, bansu), Hans (ハンス, hansu), and Lance (ランス, ransu), all being one kana or dakuten apart. This also in turn breaks the joke of Hans being mistaken for Franz, in how aside from slight sprite color changes they look exactly the same and have nearly the exact same name.