Wow what a literally perfect holiday movie. Porco Rosso levels of "i wish I could forget this and immediately rewatch this" and "why have I waited so long to watch this holy shit"

the US government, after grossly underfunding programs: see? these govt programs suck. we should just get rid of them. loc companies, after grossly underpaying teams: see? these human localizers suck. we should just get rid of them.

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

actual quote from a language company executive: “Why should we pay for higher quality translations when people will happily pay us for poorer quality translations?”

"Oh Man I need to pick a seat for my movie" The ever faithful cinema seat selection:

Person who is learning japanese: I now have renounced the English language.... I will check out every single work in japanese to enlighten myself on the true meaning of the work Person who speaks japanese fluently +10yrs: imma read it in English I'm too lazy for this

If anyone's open to a New Year's resolution suggestion, please try volunteering for a non-profit! It doesn't necessarily mean showing up in person to do physical labor. Just think about a cause that is important to you and consider what skills you have. 🧵

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Just landed at LAX. The bathroom at the international baggage claim is filthy, paper strewn everywhere, and 3 of the 6 stalls have broken doors and don’t close properly. Women are gently warning each other as they leave. Welcome to America, lol.

Hi! Here's every manga I lettered in 2025. 40 volumes, maybe 43ish if you count omnibuses. This was a recovery year for me "technically" but I still ended up pretty overloaded. I have about the right workload, but time management is a tricky beast. Will try better next year!

🙃 could our flight stop getting delayed, i would like to be back in la by new years

our flight is delayed so my husband is playing rune factory guardians of azuma and every time he's in a cutscene the font color and stroke is so bad you can barely read the subtitles... 🙃

this is AMAZING localization!

This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.* Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.

AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT: ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!! Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text. Translators translate, of course. But!

Oh, and incidentally. Those other writers, they are not your competition. They are your colleagues, and the kinder, more generous you are to them the better things will go for you.

I genuinely have never understood seeing fellow writers as competition. They’re colleagues and friends; they get the struggle. Players or readers generally like more than one writer, so we can help each other get discovered :)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1749

me, when after 15 years of learning japanese, i hear an old anime OP for the first time and the smear of mouth sounds i memorized becomes words for the first time:

One of the single best things you can do for yourself as an intermediate or above Japanese learner is to revisit pieces of media that you've enjoyed. You may not think you're making progress, but when you realise how much of it is just clicking this now, you'll realise how far you've come.

- did over 13 interviews during a grueling 8-month job search - wrote my first official dub for an anime! - landed a job at a major game company in japan - MOVED TO TOKYO with husband and two cats!! - spoke at a record number of events - was invited as an official con guest for the first time!

ET TU, AUDACITY

still my favorite christmas post

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your friends at Yen Press! 💝 📖 Girls' Last Tour buff.ly/QQM3sDJ

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

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Merry Christmas from Japan!

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having feelings about capitalism again

he is a good dog

You heard him. No AI.

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

Here's how the joining process works behind the scenes at the union. In case you're wondering, "Ben.... Where did you get this information? I've heard other things before...," my source is the Executive Director of Customer Experience at SAG-AFTRA.

I'm not sure what you mean by "separately" making them eligible, but you have the gist of it. When a non-union performer works their first union project, they become eligible to join the union in the future if they so choose. And now, brace yourself for a WALLLL of text (I'm so sorry.)

i don't know who needs to hear this, but you need a style guide. yeah. yeah, even for that. no, you can't wing it. yeah, you gotta make it yourself. c'mon. let's do it before everything gets confused.

Crunch is a failure of project management and production to make realistic deadlines, prioritize tasks, keep track of their teams’ progress, etc., etc. It’s not an easy job. But if crunch is expected, then they are certainly doing a poor one.

me this week (yes, an essay is incoming. if you translate 「」as "" every time without thinking, i am coming to destroy you(r bad translation practices))

why is it always about “reducing current costs” and not ever about “investing in future profits” 🫠

I'm sure a peer has already made this joke, but the opposite of a translator is a cis-earlier

oh boy, i can't wait to play the new patch of xiv--- aaaaaaand it's a 90k ....twice... in the same dungeon.... 🙃

love is getting home late from work at 8 PM then immediately holding your cat's butt down so it doesn't raise up while he pees, thus spraying all over the floor you cleaned this morning

When you create things, the end result is often the reward you get for the process. You cannot be rewarded without going through the process to get there.

Hi everyone, it's new article day. 🥰 This week, we have an article by Amal Hasan, who explores the history of the Spacetoon TV channel, and the impact that it's had on Arabic anime fandom and pop culture. It's a great read, and we hope you enjoy it. #anime #fandom

me when i first moved to japan: oh hell yeah i can go to donki! me having lived here for 2 years: shit. we could go to donki i guess. bring your earplugs