"We noticed Chinese citizens were less vocally critical about an area in which their totalitarian government known for penalizing dissent is heavily invested, compared to those in other countries. We hit the streets to find out why." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

You wouldn’t translate a car’s ハンドル as “handle”. You wouldn’t translate a ハイタッチ as “high touch”. So why would you translate 「」 as “”? True facts: 99% of the time, you shouldn’t, and here’s why. Translation theory thread!🧵👇

AI technology that would actually help as a translator+increase speed: 1) Something that can reliably pull text elements off of pages into a document or table, paired with page, panel and order indicators 2) Something that lets me type directly over page elements to test length and visual pairing

Notice Regarding the Translation and Publication Structure of Seven Seas Entertainment and MEDIA DO: English: mediado.jp/wp-content/t... Japanese: mediado.jp/info/15595/

Many have asked about AI and translation following the acquisition announcement. Seven Seas remains committed to human translators and the high editorial standards our readers & creators expect. Nothing about the acquisition changes how we translate our books. More info shortly.

Anyway, for people who don't know the industry, every editor and project manager I've worked with on a translation, both in and out of Seven Seas, has had a clear passion for producing quality work that would make fans happy. I can't imagine a single one of them daring to suggest I stoop to MTL.

It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

Does anyone know how to get Word to not do annoying shit like this when I'm writing fiction and trying to channel an original human thought with rhythmic expression?

1) Zelda II 2) Majora's Mask 3) Original (4 and 5: Wind Waker and Oracle of Ages) I still need to finish BoW and Tears of the Kingdom; they seem like they'd be up my alley, but they came out during my busy adult life.

The Bojack crew are the funniest ancillary Dragon Ball villains name-wise, because we just accept them as Zangya, Bojack, etc. in English, but a closer adaptation of their names would lead to groundbreaking stuff like Naztee and Cruella

Why is this worded like it's an album track from hell

Feeling furious about this; a man in Minnesota with legally protected status has his window broken and gets left stranded states away on release, disrupting his livelihood for no reason other than to appease boot-stepping white America fantasies and panic. ICE cannot be fixed.

fave loc bit in the latest World Trigger: Ikoma's そそそそういうこと 1) It's not stuttering! The first three そs are just rapid-fire for comedic effect 2) My TL emphasizes "this guy" b/c he's pointing at Koala (manga dialogue should jive with visuals) 3) alt was "Yeah what he said" but Option A felt funnier

I don't always feel this way, obviously, as is the case with all creative work, but I'm really cooking on a manga translation right now

Got a manga assignment I'm quite excited to work on, in terms of tone and content, after a fruitful reach out! A super nice pick-me-up! (Along with the arrival of a certain Masterpiece bot, as documented for anyone who also follows my hobby account.)

We setsubunned tonight, turning our ehonmaki to the southeast (+slightly more east), as we stared at the window and consumed a slab of rice and nori in silence Honestly one of the worst traditions in the world

Highly, highly important, inflexible Japanese->English translation rule dealing with any game-themed text: ステータス: Stat(s) 状態: Status The top is numerical attributes; the bottom is whether a party-member is poisoned or asleep The top is literally "status" in katakana, but that's a trap

Yet another reason to continue my daily mourning of Gawker's unjust end

From the hobby account

New York Times' coverage has, as always, been tonally spotty, but this is a heart-wrenching and close-to-the scene piece on what it feels like to be in Minneapolis right now. (Currently halfway across the world, but this is my home state.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

Mood in minneapolis right now

Dragon Ball--the series largely responsible in an oblique way for my current professional track, Japanese proficiency, and three-thousand some fandom and professional followers from back on the Everything Site™--is finally getting the back half of its sequel manga adapted.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

As a Minnesotan (and fan of decency, generally), I am rooting so hard for the home team on this

Serious(?) question - Does anyone know if there's a way to cold-solicit Viz and encourage them to pick up the Beast Wars manga to accompany their G1 Transformers manga from yesteryear, and also that they should hire me to do it as the guy cataloguing it for TFWiki and a professional translator?

I think it is essential in these dark times that Democrats continue to stand for nothing and speak for no one—historically a winning strategy

Bro wut (Not the QRT; the image)

Wine + painting home date with the girlfriend. Mine left, hers right. Spot on.

At least there's this for a bit of levity ("Levity" very relative with Peaks involved, but...)

If there's any action on Greenland, I'm quite certain there will be no actual midterm elections. You can't go brazenly imperialist abroad and remain democratic at home. At the very least, there's no precedent for it I'm aware of.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Favorite thing I watched this year was Chi ("Orb"), easily, and I'll have to finish the manga at some point too. (This is one of the rare cases for me though where the adaptation is as or more successful than the source.) Drew tears multiple times, including its stellar ending.

Next Dragon Ball fighting game, they should just give Hit the MKII arcade AI with extra-priority frame-perfect input read counters unless you pick a stronger character. Most accurate character ability representation.

If you use the phrase "AI" in your marketing copy, I instantly trust your service less, and I feel like I can't be the only consumer to respond this way. We're starting to reach the cusp of a highly embarrassing period in which the most forward-thinking companies will be the ones who avoided it all

Sorry I've been so MIA on here! Between work (including international travel), and my tendency to use social media for fandom things I don't get to talk about much IRL, well...! But hey, here, gf and I are still 'casting our way through Transformers comics for those who care to partake. Previews:

Hi I have been making my way through the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection and honestly fuck Kintaro

See also: being a Japanese translator. "Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm." "They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."

Sssssooo I didn't like Frankenstein. I love the book. This was the perfect moment for a knowing tragedy about a privileged asshole creating something uncontrollable with no thought of consequences, and it was cast aside for a pat familial trauma story constructed entirely of clichés.

Still doing the thing! TF/Dr. Who connections, a surreal and somber sixth story, enough discussions on reverse colonization fears to make canonical lit. analysis essays on Dracula blush, discussion on TF language and gender, and panthers that turn into cassettes.

Been doing an October Biohazard blitz. Finished 6, playing it for the first time, with my girlfriend. Surprisingly had a fantastic time. All in on horror-tinged goofy arcadey action and nailing it. Went back to 1–3 via GOG too. It's crazy what a step up 3 is from the first two. Might be my favorite.

I'm old and barely have time to play video-games, but you still do not want to hear my opinions on using save states in polite company.

It brings me no joy to tell you that I have convinced my wonderful girlfriend (whom some of my followers know in real life) to do a deep-dive podcast run-through of the Transformers' publishing history with me. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7k8u... YT: youtu.be/zZpwncHQc6k?...

Happy international translation day!!! Which I forgot because I was working late 😅 Here's an FAQ for aspiring Japanese to English media translators I wrote for this occasion a few years ago. j-entranslations.com/faq-for-aspi...

So, yeah, the wording of this basically implies establishing local offices to investigate un-American activities broadly including any financial or physical support of protests or even critical rhetoric. And these guys are still rejecting the "fascist" label? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Literally how did anti-vaccine culture even happen? How is that a thing? We finally cured and prevented some of history's most pernicious diseases and a sizeable block of people are now like, "No thanks!"

PDF copies of the Marvel Transformers kickstarter came out. Have them loaded on my ereader. This is a series right up there with Dragon Ball and the original Ninja Turtles for me in that, even when I don't think I feel like rereading it, the second I crack it open I am instantly having a great time.