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Translation Chat

J-EN Translations

Translation chat is a podcast on Japanese to English media translation where you"re host, Jennifer O"Donnell, chats with translators and editors in the Japanese to English localization industry about their favorite translations of Japanese media.

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Translation Chat 20 – Janet Hsu chats about Nine...

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2022/12/24

Season 2 - Episode 10/10Janet Hsu localization director that has worked in the video game industry for almost two decades. Janet chats about the English localization of the Nintendo DS Game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors by director Kotaro Uchikoshi from Chunshoft.Localization by Aksys Games with translation by Nobara Nakayama and editing by Ben Bateman. "Nine Hours: You only have 9 hours before Junpei and the other 8 kidnapped drown. Numerology, music composition and logic puzzles are just

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Translation Chat 19 – Wesley O'Donnell chats about...

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2022/12/17

Season 2 - Episode 9/10 Wesley O'Donnell is a freelance Japanese to English translator living in Japan. He's worked on a variety of manga and light novels with penchant towards fantasy and comedy. Wesley chats about the amazing characterization and comedy in the English localization of Nindento's Paper Mario and the Origami King. "The kingdom has been ravaged by an origami menace! Join Mario and his new partner, Olivia, as they battle evil Folded Soldiers, repair the damaged landscape, and try to

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Translation Chat 18 – Taylor Drew chats about Tokyo...

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2022/12/04

Season 2 - Episode 8/10 Taylor Drew is a translator, writer, and manga proofreader based in Tokyo. She writes book reviews for her personal blog A Basket of Words and also does interview translations for Febri. Passionate for all things written and everything to do with Northeastern Japan, she chose to talk about the award-winning Tokyo Ueno Stationby Yu Miri and translated by Morgan Giles. "Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to

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00:46:27

Translation Chat 17 – Erica Friedman chats about...

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2022/11/27

Season 2 - Episode 7/10 Erica Friedman is the Founder of Yuricon and has run the world's oldest and most comprehensive blog on Yuri, Okazu, since 2002. She has edited manga for JManga, Seven Seas and Udon Entertainment, most recently Riyoko Ikeda’s epic historical classic, The Rose of Versailles. Erica is the author of By Your Side: The First 100 Year of Yuri Anime and Manga, out now from Journey Press. She chats with us about the English translation of the manga forWhisper Me a Love Song, by Eku

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Translation Chat 16 – Stephen Meyerink chats about...

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2022/11/13

Season 2 - Episode 6/10 Stephen Meyerink is a freelance Japanese to English translator, writer, and author who has worked on video games, books, albums, manga, and more. He is a massive fan of video game music (in terms of both a historical practice and a listener), loves cooking (and eating) all kinds of food except meat loaf, and Final Fantasy. He joins us to chat about the English localizations of 1998's Final Fantasy Tactics and 2007's updated localization Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the

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01:13:12

Translation Chat 15 – Alexander O. Smith chats about...

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2022/11/06

Season 2 - Episode 5/10 Alexander O. Smith—who goes by Alex—is a translator, writer, and photographer living in Kamakura, Japan. As a translator, he's worked on games like Final Fantasy 12, novels in the fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery genres, and manga. He's written for Magic: The Gathering, DeNA mobile games, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and is currently writing at game studio Camouflaj on an unannounced VR title. Alex chose to chat about the sci-fi novel—which later became a blockbuster movie

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00:59:55

Translation Chat 14 – Keith Spencer chats about The...

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2022/10/30

Season 2 - Episode 4/10 Keith Spencer is a visual artist and translator based in Kyoto. His artwork has been exhibited in the US, Japan, and Canada, while his translations have appeared in artist books, galleries, and numerous art-related online publications. Keith chose to chat about the novel The Emissary (also known in the USA asThe Last Children of Tokyo), by Yoko Tawada and translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the

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Translation Chat 13 – Mercedez Clewis chats about...

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2022/10/21

Season 2 - Episode 3/10 Mercedez (Meru) Clewis (they/their) is a Japanese to English translation and localization editor working primarily with light novels and visual novels, such as Idea Factory’s Cupid Parasite. They’re also a pop culture critic, anime and manga reviewer, and a freelance journalist, contributing to websites like Anime Feminist and the Anime News Network. Mercedez chose to chat about Spring 2021’s Super Cub, an anime produced by Studio Kai based on the Super Cub novel by author

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00:46:50

Translation Chat 12 – Kaylyn Wylie chats about...

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2022/10/10

Season 2 - Episode 2/10 Kaylyn S. Wylie (she/they) is a Japanese to English media localization specialist working primarily with video games. You can see her work most recently in Ender Lilies and Artesnaut. If you’d like to catch what she’s up to, you can find her on Twitter where she gushes about Quagsire, shares her gaming hyperfixations, and frequently talks about the topics of accessibility and equality in the industry. "Welcome to a new world! Take on the role of a hunter and slay ferocious

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00:36:34

Translation Chat 11 – Christina Rose chats about...

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2022/10/01

Season 2 - Episode 1/10 Christina Rose is a video game and manga translator who enjoys demystifying the J-E media translation industry and its practices for people new to the field or looking to break in. Final Fantasy XIV is a sci-fi/fantasy MMORPG that has been running in some form or other since 2012, making it nearly ten years old! The most recently released expansion at the time of this podcast is Endwalker, and the expansion right before that is Shadowbringers. Christina discusses the

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00:43:50

Translation Chat 10 – Daniel McCalla chats about The...

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2022/02/13

Season 1 - Episode 10/10 Daniel McCalla is a Japanese to English video game translator and (occasional) editor. During his four years as a freelancer, he worked on titles such as Phantasy Star Online 2, Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, Dragon Quest XI S, and Ender Lilies. He now works in-house at Capcom as part of their localization team. In this episode he chose to chat about The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, which was released in English (and sadly English only) for the first time on the

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00:43:55

Translation Chat 09 – Gavin Greene chats about...

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2022/02/06

Season 1 - Episode 9/10 Gavin Greene is a freelance localization director, translator, and interpreter specializing in video games. In his ten years in the industry, he's translated more games than he can count (he's better at writing than math), many of them for well-known franchises such as Final Fantasy and the Tales of series. As a localization director, he organizes multilingual teams bringing fun and games to various corners of the world. And as an interpreter, he talks and sometimes people

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00:39:04

Translation Chat 08 - Morgan Watchorn chats about...

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2022/01/29

Season 1 - Episode 8/10 Morgan Watchorn is a manga translator for Seven Seas Entertainment. Titles she’s worked on include Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire?, Desire Pandora, and Call to Adventure! Defeating Dungeons with a Skill Board. She chose to talk about the English dub adaptation for the 2005 animeBlack Cat, which was translated by Masako Ollivier, then adapted by Andrew Rye and Eric Vale for dubbing. "Completing every job with ruthless accuracy, Train Heartnet is an infamous assassin with no

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00:35:52

Translation Chat 07 - Wesley Bishop chats about Final...

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2022/01/15

Season 1 - Episode 7/10 Wesley Bishop is a localization director at video game developer and publisher Capcom. Wes grew up in Indiana in the USA. After earning his degree, he went on to work at the Japan-American Society of Indiana, an NPO dedicated to strengthening the bridges of friendship between the Japan and the USA. Wesley moved to Japan in 2013 to become an English teacher on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. In 2016 he began work for Fukuoka Prefectural Board of Education in

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00:34:40

Translation Chat 06 - Rook chats about Spy x Family

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2022/01/09

Season 1 - Episode 6/10 Nathaniel Hiroshi Thrasher, also known as Rook, is a wildly successful light novel and manga translator who's worked on titles such as Torture Princess, The Eminence in Shadow, Spy Classroom, and High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World. Rook chose to chat about the popular Shonen Jump manga Spy x Family, written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endoand, and translated through Viz Media by Casey Loe. Rook (Nathaniel Hiroshi Thrasher) Twitter:

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01:09:36

Translation Chat 05 - Andrew Echeverria chats about...

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2021/11/28

Season 1 - Episode 5/10 Andrew Echeverria is a Japanese-to-English media translator with a focus in games. He's been in the industry for half a decade, in which time he has had the opportunity to work on manga, tourism, tech, and games such as Phantasy Star Online 2 and Ender Lilies. He also loves all things horror, especially the more surreal, cerebral, and phantasmagoric entries in the canon. Andrew chose to chat about the 2001 survival horror game Silent Hill 2 which was localized by Jeremy

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00:33:04

Translation Chat 04 - Liz Bushouse chats about Final...

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2021/11/21

Season 1 - Episode 4/10 Liz Bushouse is a Japanese to English video game translator and has worked on titles such as Phantasy Star Online 2, STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town, and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. She has a masters degree in translation and loves to talk about translation theory. Liz shares her insight from her excessive research into the Final Fantasy localizations by talking about how the Final Fantasy VII Remake localization was handled. The English of which was translated by Ben

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00:45:56

Translation Chat 03 - Katrina Leonoudakis chats about...

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2021/11/14

Season 1 - Episode 3/10 Katrina Leonoudakis is a professional translator and localization specialist. In addition to working full-time at SEGA as a project coordinator, she subtitles anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks, as well as translates manga for Seven Seas. She has credits on projects like Persona 5 Royal, the Yakuza series, and anime like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou. Her favorite thing in the world is translation theory-- ask her about equivalence! Katrina shares with us her passion

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00:40:58

Translation Chat 02 - Anne Lee chats about Taisho x...

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2021/11/07

Season 1 - Episode 2/10 Anne Lee is a freelance Japanese to English translator and editor, with credits including Hitorijime My Hero volumes 1-3 and video games such as Giraffe and Annika, and Tokyo Afterschool Summoners. She also writes and podcasts about Japanese pop culture at Chic-Pixel.com in addition to her day job in communications. She's particularly passionate about otome games, which is why she's chosen to talk about one today. Anne chose to chat about Taisho x Alice by Primula, translated

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Translation Chat 01 - Daniel Morales chats about...

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2021/11/06

Season 1 - Episode 1/10 Daniel Morales is a writer, translator and former association professional based in Chicago. He writes the website HowtoJapanese.com and is a regular contributor to the Japan Times Bilingual page. Daniel chose to chat about Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and edited by Elmer Luke. "A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians,

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