Digimon Xros Wars 15th Anniversary Talk Corner excerpts digi-lab.blog/digimon-xros...

Digimon Expo 2025 Digimon Adventure 02 stage reading digi-lab.blog/digimon-expo...

...oh, it was "Tenth", wasn't it...🤦 (It's now been corrected.)

Digimon Expo 2025 Digimon Xros Wars stage reading digi-lab.blog/digimon-expo...

Yes, I'm aware that there were stage readings.

Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING movie pamphlet interviews and comments digi-lab.blog/digimon-adve...

DigiFes 2023 Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING stage readings digi-lab.blog/digifes-2023...

As promised, we've removed the links to our version of Hurricane Touchdown in light of the new official release. However, we are still keeping the script file up for preservation, so if you'd like it for any reason: hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/d...

If ever Retrospring will be shut down (like from here... 7 months actually), what do you plan to do? — That is a fantastic question that I still have not figured out the answer to! Currently the best idea I have in mind is to b… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING (The image depicts how we felt when we saw that the official subtitles were dubtitles.) hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/d...

Got a translation project I've been working on for the last few months that may finally be seeing the light of day this weekend. Stay tuned.

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 9 hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/d...

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 8 hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/d...

There was also more planned (all 02TB-related), but some delays happened and all of them will have to be postponed to after August 1, so I'm sorry about this year's offerings being less impactful in comparison 🙇‍♀️

The Road to Becoming a Digimon Producer digi-lab.blog/the-road-to-...

Otona Anime Vol. 18 interview with Riku Sanjou on Digimon Xros Wars digi-lab.blog/otona-anime-...

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 7: Snow White’s Mirror hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/07/12/dream-eater-guide-dream-7

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 6: Mermaid Drops hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/d...

I've had a draft translation of Producer Shimomura's "The Road to Becoming a Digimon Producer" article series in my files for a while now, but it doesn't seem like it's ever going to finish (it stopped at Part 6). Maybe I should just post it anyway...

Kazari vs. catching a sudden cold, round 2 (no, this kind of thing doesn't usually happen). I'm not letting this get the better of me!!

I want to ask about the special drama of digimon adventure 02 the beginning if you could please give me the audio version I… — I'm afraid to say I'm not at liberty to provide that! The same audio was included with the Japanese Blu-ray that released a … retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

(clicks tongue disapprovingly)

Sometimes, when I translate something that was previously translated, I notice previous TLs all toned the content down, not intentionally, but out of thinking "surely it couldn't be THAT unhinged" as they tried to straighten it out... ...but no, it really *was* that unhinged.

Seeing just one example of a questionable localization choice and going "see this is why localization is bad" is like seeing someone get food poisoning and deciding that this is why we should all stop eating food.

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 5: Cinderella's Ribbons hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/d...

Six months of work on a mid-nineties magical girl series getting me in the habit of looking for extremely difficult-to-catch wording parallels and seemingly irrelevant details being helpful for Digimon translation? It's more likely thank you think!

Up until now, we've been releasing a Dream Eater Guide chapter around once every week, but we're going to be a bit busy over the next few weeks, so I can't guarantee we're going to keep up that exact pace. (But we'll also try not to fall too far behind!)

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 4: Ice Lenses hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/d...

How do you pick the projects you work on? — There's a lot of different factors. I already have a wide range of interests, so sometimes it's something I happened to like… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 3: Wish Upon a Star Candy hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/d...

Dream Eater Guide — Dream 1: Rapunzel’s Shampoo hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/d...

One and Two and Three/A Perfect Catch in Midsummer (Saint Tail volume 7 extras) hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/03/14/o...

Seems like Canadian screenings of 02TB still used dubtitles for the subs. We really just can't win, can we? One thing improves about the translation, another thing gets messed up. It's at least better than Kizuna's subtitles, but this is just sad.

Are you planning on translating any more novels? — Well, see...I've actually had an in-progress translation of another Rider novel in my drafts for almost two years now 😅 I st… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

I realized (after way too long) that my email address is confusing because it has only one "n" when I use two "n"s everywhere else, so I'll be changing my address to the two-n version going forward.

Saint Tail anime voice actor commentary (eps. 1-2 and 43) hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/s...

Something I wish more people would realize is that "human edited MTL" is actually harder and *more* time-consuming than doing it from scratch. I see people dropping the pitchforks when an exec goes "we're ~streamlining~ the process with MTL" -- but that's not how it works!

I really wish people would stop assuming that if someone translates something that was translated before, it means they dislike the previous translation(s). If I want to do something enough, I'll do it, regardless of whether someone else has done it or not.

A 16-Year-Old's Tiara/The Day the Whale Went Around (Saint Tail volume 6 extras) hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/a...

By the way, yes, I am still working on Digimon stuff, it's just that most of it is 02TB-related and I'd like to put it out when I know enough people have *seen* the movie, so I'm eyeing the Blu-ray date. Worse comes to worst, expect a huge batch of offerings this August? 😅

As someone who got into translating via Digimon Adventure PSP and Cyber Sleuth, I owe a lot to Producer Habu's work, so I'm grateful for everything he's done for the IP thus far. I wish him the best of luck in future prospects, and to the current Digimon producer(s) and teams!

I'm open to people disputing my translation choices or articles about translation theory, but any comments that are clearly just to insult or mock me rather than doing anything constructive will be instantly sent to the trash. Please find something better to do with your time :)

This is just a personal thing, but when I translate something older than 10 years old, I don't think it's a bad idea to account for temporal context differences even if it has nothing to do with Japanese culture or language, like putting extra clarity in words like "camera film".

Portrait of a Morning Glory/The Music Box That Brings Forth Spring (Saint Tail volume 1 extras) hudiesubs.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/p...

JP musing: Kanji isn't always the be all, end all. Take 入れない. It can be either いれない (won't put/allow thing/person inside) and はいれない (can't enter). It's an example where hiragana'd be better suited, unless the context is obvious.

If you're seeing this page for the first time, hi, I like translating things and talking about translation and localization in general, so I'll be hanging around here doing the usual. Nice to meet you all ✌️

What do you mean about not wanting to be a "fandom translator"? — I get the impression there are people who get into translating specifically because they want to service a particular fandom… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

Which one is harder to translate for, Digimon or Saint Tail? — They're challenging in different ways. Saint Tail had a lot of abstract symbolism, metaphors, and wordplay all over the plac… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...

English is a low-context language, so if you don't specify something, it's usually assumed that you're refraining for some reason, but Japanese is high-context, so omitting something is very normal and the speaker is probably assuming that the information is obvious already.

Hello. Something I've begun to notice when watching anime is that, it often feels like the word 親友 comes up a lot when it… — By itself, the word doesn't have any romantic implications per se, so just because you see the word 親友 doesn't necessarily m… retrospring.net/@kazarinn/a/...