We will be having a Manga Loc (and more!) Meetup on June 5th in the evening! These casual meetups are open to people working in manga, light novel, game, etc. localization. Aspiring folks are also welcome to join! If you’d like to attend or want more information, feel free to DM me.

‘PEN Translates x SALT is open to publishers anywhere outside South Asia. The program provides grants for new books in translation from any language of South Asia’ www.englishpen.org/translation/... Deadlines: May 31 (UK Spring), November 30 (UK Autumn) #xl8

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

Just submitted the last bit of work required of me (probably) for a project I've been working on since the summer. Feels strange for it to be off my schedule now after spending so much time with it. It was a challenging situation, but I learned a lot! Very grateful for the experience.

Very heavy cognitive load for my translation today. I've been jumping from social science discipline to social science discipline since I woke up this morning and there's a lot yet left to do. I also had to learn a little bit about the disposal of industrial waste. What's next? 🥴 #AmTranslating

It's time for another review! Thanks to #NetGalley and @solarisbooks.bsky.social for the copy! What a wonderfully complex and hopeful little book that sounds like it's about zombies, but isn't. Can't complain about a book told in multiple POVs either. Highly recommend. #AmReading #BookReview

💐情報解禁💐今年もやります #難民・移民フェス 。ワイワイと回を重ねて第７回！いつも応援ありがとうございます。今回は都会の真ん中でにぎやかに。詳細は追ってお伝えいたします。 第7回　難民・移民フェス 日時　2026年6月6日（土）13時〜16時 場所　聖アンデレ教会（東京都港区）

Introducing my newest comic book font, Trinketry! It's mixed-case, hand-drawn, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's a cutie with high charisma, and would be perfect in any comic. You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b7e9497fed

Long time no post! I finally came up for air long enough to finish a novel I got through #NetGalley and review it for my blog. This one deals with love, list, misogyny, sexual, Frankenstein (kind of), and more. Really, really good book. #booksky #AmReading #BookReview taylordrew.me/love-and-oth...

In case folks are in Tokyo at the end of March… We will be having Manga Loc meetups on the evenings of March 24 and 26! If you’d like to attend or want more information, feel free to DM me.

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians by Ada Palmer "Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historian’s craft..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

maybe we shouldn't be laying the blame at the feet of contractors for the poor pay maybe people take jobs that pay poorly because they need the work and money, even if it's not ideal. not everyone has the clout to push for better without threatening their livelihood.

I think we should take our time translating 🤷🏻‍♂️ More time than we have been expected to take, more time than we even think it should take.

Back from my unplanned #ReadingLog hiatus to report on the... two books I read in February. Everything being on fire + being up to my eyeballs in work has really had a negative impact on my reading. Hopefully the warmer weather improves things. I miss reading LOL #AmReading #booksky

Just spent two days at a client's office (for easier access to reference materials) and it's always nice to be reminded that clients who treat freelancers like human beings do in fact exist. It was a nice confidence booster that's making the task much easier and more enjoyable. #AmTranslating

三浦美和子さんの新連載『私たちはつながっている』 第１回：「ジェンダーは、やるな」 《この土地でジェンダーについて語るとき、私は臆病になります。できるだけ反発を受けないように、と身構える習性が顔を出します。 》 d4p.world/34472/

【講演会告知】 「海外に出るには　 ～世界に挑むクリエイターへ　最初の一歩の踏み出し方～」 日英翻訳者ジョセリン・アレン氏による講演 【代表翻訳作】 伊藤潤二『死びとの恋わずらい』（アイズナー賞受賞） 池田理代子『ベルサイユのばら』 📍場所：としま区民センター　402会議室 🕒日時：3月6日 10:00〜 📝参加方法：事前申込（無料） 参加希望フォームこちら　 forms.gle/EEdHftovCoxV... ※この講演会は独立行政法人日本芸術文化振興の文化活動基盤強化基金（クリエイター等支援事業（育成プログラム構築・実践））による助成をうけたプロジェクト「GOMA」の一環として行われます

Survived another work grind and finally had time to rewrite a #BookReview I wrote and lost to browser failure a few weeks ago. Hate to say it's a timely book, but given *gestures at everything*, thinking about the themes this book tackles felt extremely appropriate. #AmReading #NetGalley #booksky

Eiko Kadono's Kiki and the New Magic (tr. me) is coming out Aug. 25 🐈‍⬛ 🧹 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813082...

Excited to announce that @scriptingjapan.bsky.social's slang dictionary is available on the new Jisho! Wes' dictionary, blog posts and videos are deeply researched and entertaining, and a vital resource for anyone who studies Japanese. Thank you Wes! All entries here: four.jisho.org/search/%23sc...

On the gift of the most-repeated phrase in The End of August, and how no translator is an island: allwrongsreversed.net/2026/01/06/i...

Begging on my hands and knees for clients to stop sending lines from DeepL and just use their Japanese words to explain what they want! I can read them, I promise. It's literally my job! DeepL isn't helpful! Stop it!

I was going to write a post about all my 2025 work, but then I realized that despite being the most interesting year I've professionally ever had, it was also the most demoralizing and dehumanizing. And there's too much heartbreak in that to fit in a single social media post.

Finishing off 2025 with one last #NetGalley review with a queer, cyberpunk retelling of The Great Gatsby by @kmfajardo.bsky.social. This book was everything. There was absolutely nothing for me to dislike other than the consequences of my own wishful thinking. #AmReading #BookReview #booksky

In 2025, Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) had 14 meetups!! This is a bit early, but our first meetup of 2026 will be on Jan. 27 at 7:00pm. (Location to be determined.) If you are in the Tokyo area and would like to attend, just let me know!

Today's translation problem: figuring out if the child in this book with 小児麻痺 has polio or cerebral palsy, since apparently this is a shorthand for both. I'm pretty sure it's polio, but I'm going to have to do some research to confirm! Would be an embarrassing mistake to make. #AmTranslating

Seems like a good time to remind people that you can be critical of exploitative practices/companies without (directly or indirectly) poor shaming. I know a lot of people are under a lot of pressure, I am too, but lashing out at others who are just frantically trying to survive is not the answer.

Currently feeling bitter that Veggie Town is almost certainly trademarked in some form and therefore can't be used as the *perfect* translation for the book I'm currently working on. #AmTranslating

My monster project kicks off today. Earlier this year, I wrote a review for Metal Gear Solid Delta, questioning why we remake games. To answer that, I spoke to five major studios about how and why they remake games. First up is, of course, Metal Gear. www.inverse.com/gaming/konam...

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“The discussion about the words we use took a troubling turn: Instead of being an opportunity to engage deeply with harmful attitudes, people—predominantly white people—are instead focusing on the superficial use of words themselves.” By @sesmith.lol for Bitch Media, repub by @theflytrapmedia.com.

Sometimes finalizing a rough draft is a breeze because past you was a genius. Other times, finalizing a rough draft is a kind of written warfare between you and the past and you and the present. I experienced both types today. Humanity is full of multitudes. #AmTranslating

I wrote my #ReadingLog for November a few days ago, but I forgot to post it on this website. I've been working on catching up on my magazine subscriptions in between frantically working, so it's a short one. Still fun to write though, so enjoy if this is your thing! #AmReading #booksky

A little old man just passed me chanting “Sayuri, Sayuri” to the slow rhythm of his cane clicking on the pavement and I asked if Sayuri may have gone to Arakawa cuz I could look there but he didn’t know & now I am broken everyone get out and find his dog right now especially you @katch.bsky.social

Always nice to get a message on LinkedIn from a recruiter from some company or other asking me if I would like to help them do quality assurance on data sets that they're trying to use to replace me. How about no? I would rather launch myself into the sun.

Please donate! All donations TODAY will be matched. Please help this important cat rescue group continue their life saving work. #cats #catrescue #japan

Reminder to freelancers that you really need to read your contracts before you sign them. Reading contract language, especially if in a different language, isn't easy, but doing so may save you the potential future harm of overly broad clauses in the contract. You need to be careful.

Look for RJL’s 2026 list of new and upcoming releases from Japan later this week. In the meantime, enjoy a sneak peek of what’s already available for pre-order!

【お知らせ】TVアニメ『とんがり帽子のアトリエ』のティザーPV &キャストがついに解禁されました！ ココ：CV #本村玲奈 さん キーフリー：CV #花江夏樹 さん アニメの公開日は2026年4月より放送開始です。 みんな、魔法の世界に旅立つ準備はできたかい？ #witchhatatelier #とんがり帽子のアトリエ youtu.be/dkJNqHgTxwI?...

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Didn't expect to lose hours of my life today attempting to learn how to write believable Early Modern English for two throwaway lines that will definitely never come up again in this series I'm translating. A solution has not yet been found. I am suffering. #AmTranslating

October was a bit lackluster for reading because I was so busy, but I finally managed to get my #BookLog for the month written. I hope anyone who actually reads these things enjoys the small excited rant I go on at the end of this one. #AmReading #booksky

Hi! Big update today! It’s been more than four years since we launched as Azuki in June 2021. Today we’re excited to announce a new name for our manga reading platform and publisher: Omoi

Started my day with a DM asking me to do professional translation work for free because "I promise I'm a good person and I've always advocated for paying creatives." Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me. #AmNotTranslating

The second book in Kenji Ueda’s Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop series (tr. me) came out this week. www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-978...

The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Reviewed another book courtesy of #NetGalley. Kind of hard to read near future speculative fiction that takes place in the United States right now, but this book was really good. I really enjoyed the calm chaos. Highly recommend. #AmReading #BookReview #booksky

It cannot be understated how important a good editor and proofreader are to ensuring project quality. But people in these roles who lack a strong attention to detail/can't articulate their issues, can bog a project down. Your translators can't read minds. Be clear and articulate in your comments.

Do any of my followers read #Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and want to help me confirm the official translation of a quote for an article I'm translating? It's: "人間の寿命は短いってわかっていたのに…　なんでもっと知ろうと思わなかったんだろう" Something like "I knew humans had short lives... Why didn't I get to know him better?"