I had the chance to interview Japanese adult voice actor Kitaro Ushigaeru (he's not on Bluesky yet 😭) about eroge, BL, and more! It's the newest article on @junelovejoy.bsky.social's site, Tokyo Love District! Hope you enjoy reading, and check out his work! 💗 tokyolovedistrict.com/voice-actor-...

During lockdown some friends and I watched the dub for the original Sakura Wars and we had a running gag pointing out all the ways they pronounce Sumire's name, usually wrong. We had a great time watching the whole show. For the finale - I put together a compilation of them saying her name.

Idea: translating ほんまに or マジで as "deadass"

If you never ever seen two vintage Tamagotchis breeding, there you go! Warning: they are really loud when doing it!

aftermath.site/steam-itch-p... Genuinely the most well thought, well written, and well researched article on the topic I've seen. THIS is journalism

@subheartjp.com CONGRATS ON YORU GA KURU RELEASE!! 🎉

今日から使える鳥知識：マイタケは英語でHen of the woods（森の雌鶏）

Went to a fun Hinamatsuri party the other day! 日米協会のひな祭りお茶会楽しかった～

I call this shoehorning a translation. If you find yourself doing linguistic gymnastics to make your TL work, you likely haven't properly understood the source text. Read your TL, and when you notice a weird leap in logic, go back to the source and re-assess the meaning.

So as a blasian (lmao), I just want y’all to know that this is gonna be the very first ACTUAL Japanese Manga having mixed Black and other mixed and Japanese main characters, and it’s about them experiencing being mixed in Japan. This is amazing and I really want y’all to support this manga.

【拡散希望】Please repost/like if you can! 🙏 Remade my website from scratch! I'm a Japanese-to-English localization editor/translator/writer specializing in niche and adult media! 🌈💋✨ 新HPです！日英翻訳や英訳編集、執筆などをしてます。専門はオタクコンテンツや成人向けコンテンツです！よろしくお願いします！ 💖 subheartjp.com

From @subheartjp.com New website! I'm a JP-EN loc editor/translator/writer specializing in niche and adult media! 新HPです！日英翻訳や英訳編集、執筆などをしてます。専門はオタクコンテンツや成人向けコンテンツです！よろしくお願いします！ 💖 subheartjp.com

ICYMI: Travelers to Japan speak a variety of languages. That makes addressing their diverse needs challenging. Maid cafe At Home will deploy a new technology from a Japanese company that it hopes will bridge the gap, as well as provide support for its deaf customers.

In gamedev, we joke about how we shouldn't care so much because "we ain't curing cancer" so chill, right? But you know what? These last few weeks reminded me that the Arts, esp accessible Art like videogames is incredibly important because games have a big place in sculpting cultural norms.

So yeah, this thing is awesome. For one thing, it now lets us track when terms like "translation" and "localization" first cropped up in the industry and how their meanings shifted over time. Let's take a look, shall we?

Updated my website! I'm a freelance JPN-ENG localization editor/translator/writer specializing in niche and adult media! HPを更新しました！日英翻訳者や翻訳編集者、フリーライターをしてて、専門はオタクメディアや成人向けコンテンツです！よろしくお願い致します。💖 subheartjp.com

🏳️‍⚧️‼️ TRANS FOLK IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY‼️🏳️‍⚧️ If you are in need of work, please share your portfolio here! If you are not trans but you see this - donate $5 to Trans Lifeline and I will match your donation! translifeline.org

Best Magfest cosplay goes to @chairgtables.lamedimension.moe without question

This is why we don’t say “consensual sex work.” Because nonconsensual sex work is sex trafficking.

Don't make me tap the sign

Manga lettering, like composting in animation, is a job that's often overlooked despite its importance to translating a work of art. I spoke with some manga letterers about what the job entails and challenges the mostly freelance pool of typographers face. gizmodo.com/being-a-mang...

Random word of the day: 脱皮（dappi）literally means to "shed one's skin," as a snake does, but also means to "break free" of something, such as convention, or transform oneself. In the Year of the Snake, some people see a chance for reinvention. As I saw on TV this morning, Dappy New Year!

Updated my website! I'm a freelance JPN-ENG localization editor/translator/writer specializing in niche and adult media! HPを更新しました！日英翻訳者や翻訳編集者、フリーライターをしてて、専門はオタクメディアや成人向けコンテンツです！よろしくお願い致します。💖 subheartjp.com

A friend talked about a mobile game he was playing that had weird translation issues. That got me to thinking about what the cause of those issues could be, and considering the wider question of how many factors can influence a translation before even considering an individual translator's merits. 🧵

Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.

Hi, new followers! I'd really appreciate it if you shared the post below. Yoru ga Kuru is a game that means a lot to me. Please look forward to the English release. Thanks!

I'm really proud of this article that I wrote earlier this year for Tokyo Love District (site covering 18+/queer events and services in Japan) on the new Japanese AV law. Thanks to @junelovejoy.bsky.social for the opportunity! Hope to see TLD on Bluesky soon! tokyolovedistrict.com/campaign-to-...

🥳THE FIRST BIG FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR🎉 After the New Year celebrations there is barely time to catch your breath before Kyōto's first festival arrives, and this one is particularly important for businesses and those hoping for a prosperous year ahead. The 'Tōka Ebisu Matsuri' begins on January 8th.

Kaiji faces his greatest challenge yet

My project manager said I edited/proofread over 4 million moji worth of translated text in 2024! Here's to the next few million in 2025! 🥳 ...Is this meme dead yet?

Not my meme but evergreen

And if you’re looking for manga letterers, I made a starter pack for that👇 go.bsky.app/8XNn7Eu

PLEASE WATCH ORB PONDER THE ORB THE OTHER AOTS BESIDES DANDADAN IS IN NETFLIX JAIL, VISIT IT!!!!!

If you stopped masking - please start again. The period between Christmas & New Years is one where people travel, gather & tend to get sick Masking up could ensure you stay healthy & prevent infecting someone else Even if you don’t care if YOU get sick - many of us can’t risk it. Mask for us.

Someone did anti-AI glaze for audio!

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

I love meeting coworkers ahh! So happy to work in an industry with so many cool people! 😤✨

I haven’t gotten any furniture for my sylvanian families house yet, so my guys are just kind of male living space -ing it

shout out to all my fellow contractors working through the holidays

How it started: How it's going:

As a reminder: you should never forget when the extreme right wing talks about "banning porn" that the mere existence of anything LGBT is "sexual" to them and will thus be conveniently labeled as "porn" to be banned too

One of my pet peeves when playing games is bad subtitles. Tiny text, illegible fonts, no speaker names, poor line breaking, the list goes on! Movies and TV have standardized style guides, so why don't games?! Anyway, so I decided to rant about it. j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...

NHK has located and interviewed the elusive Nasir Gebelli, the genius Iranian-American programmer of Final Fantasy I to III. Gebelli dropped out of the public eye for many years, and even Sakaguchi went to Twitter in 2012 to ask if anyone knew his contact information. www.famitsu.com/article/2024...

Hi, I'm Youge, a translator from Japan. I will introduce you to notable Japanese indie games. Give it a try. #indiegame 1. Senchu Short, strange, and unpredictable work by solo dev, YSI . This work will take you to a world you can't even imagine. store.steampowered.com/app/3130670/...

Just a useful website for finding similar words in Japanese (I recommend this if you're trying to write something in Japanese yourself but don't know how to phrase it. Or vocab mining for studying.) renso-ruigo.com/word/%E3%82%...