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Dec. 31st, 2037 04:17 pm
not_sophie: (Cierra)
I put my stupid pointless translations of Japanese things that probably weren't translated yet to practice and indulge my own interests. Except it won't include the stuff I did with a group (so no Xenoblade X promo stuff or fansubbed things fyi fansubbing sucks don't do it) so sux2bu. If you want to point out mistakes in a translation or something, feel free, so I can fix it and learn. Now, since I often post incomplete things and update them without notice later, a brief list of recent updates:

Concrete Revolutio prequel novel: Superhuman Phantasmagoria Shinka 36: Chapters 6-9 (12/31/2025)
Tales of Berseria Illustrations Book: Special Interview with Mutsumi Inomata (12/31/2025)
Ten Minute Masterpieces (5th Grade): A Single Bunch of Grapes (11/2/2025)

Full index of things I've done here (with links, and significant things listed first) for convenience:  Read more... )
not_sophie: (Velvet)
Gotta take a break to get back to my original genre of Inomata. Since the world has taken her from us, though, there is only so much of her left in the world beyond our memories. Makes me a little sad, since I was always inspired by her art and designs. Oh well, this one is from the Tales of Berseria Illustrations Book, and interview in question took place on August 26, 2016. There are more interviews in this book than just Mutsumi Inomata's, but I'll get to them later, let's stick with our first love, shall we?

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not_sophie: (Columbina)
Another collection of stories I got from, if I remember correctly, Midway Bookstore. It has a Kinokuniya sticker on it though so I'm just going to keep being jealous that I've been to Seattle's Kinokuniya once and Chicago's Kinokuniya once. And don't live in a city that has a Kinokuniya. Ugh. Then again, I spend my entire paycheck from working at Daiso AT Daiso, so maybe it's for the best that Kinokuniya does not exist in my state.

Also, the first story absolutely did not take me just 10 minutes to read. Actually it took me way more than that. Darn! I can't imagine the others are going to either. What a sad life. Also, I'm not going to say who did the illustrations anymore, from here on out. There's just no point. It has nothing to do with what I'm doing, which is translating the written word as best as I can.

A Single Bunch of Grapes (by Takeo Arishima)Read more... )
not_sophie: (SMOOCH)
Last Update: December 31, 2025 (Added Chapter 6/7/8/9. From here you can expect be to slow down again, though hopefully not quite as slow as I was going at the start, now that things are happening in the story. But I do have to go back to work on the fifth, so bleh. Enjoy what you go, for now. As usually, don't get unset at me over Japanese names or words -- the words probably have wikipedia articles and the names are, uh. names. So I'm not into those types of complaints unless they're well thought out.

It's time! October 4th (which is already now in Japan) is the tenth anniversary of Concrete Revolutio's first episode premiere. Now it's not just old in spirit, it is old in existence itself! There's a prequel novel called Superhuman Phantasmagoria Shinka 36, written by Sho Aikawa (who wrote the anime's story in the first place). I've had it for a bit. I was hoping to get more translated before posting anything, but when I realized the tenth anniversary was coming up, I figured I'd better just get as far as I can and post what's ready and leave it at that. You shouldn't expect updates to come fast, since this is certainly above my reading level and longer than anything else I've done.


PrologueRead more... )
Chapter 1Read more... )
Chapter 2Read more... )
Chapter 3Read more... )
Chapter 4Read more... )
Chapter 5Read more... )
Chapter 6Read more... )
Chapter 7Read more... )
Chapter 8Read more... )
Chapter 9Read more... )
not_sophie: (Emi)
Last update 10/2/2025 (Added Aki Toyosaki's comments. And would you look at that, there were only those six anyway, so this is done now unless I come back to edit it.)

I was always planning to do this anyway, but I thought since it would be less insightful on the creation and inspiration of the story, I'd do it a billion years later and focus on Aikawa's prequel novel instead. But the prequel novel is hard for my unfluent eyes! I don't know these kanji! I am unimpressed with the speed of my progress trying to read it but don't want to become discouraged, so for now I'll just do that tiny bit by tiny bit on my days off from work and do stuff like this and other easier things alongside it and on work days. I like to feel like I'm accomplishing things. I need that dopamine. I'm a druggie, gimme my instant gratification and I'll eventually learn enough kanji and git gud at grammar so the novel will become instant gratification in its own right.

... Anyway. Today is Cast Comments Day. I added the parenthetical "voice of whoever" to the titles for your convenience. Enjoy!

Special Interview with Kaito Ishikawa (voice of Jirou Hitoyoshi) (July 3, 2015) Read more... )
New Comments from Sumire Uesaka (voice of Kikko Hoshino) have arrived!! (September 18, 2015) Read more... )
New Comments from Kaito Ishikawa (voice of Jirou Hitoyoshi) have arrived!! (September 18, 2015) Read more... )
New Comments from Eriko Nakamura (voice of Fuurouta) have arrived!! (October 18, 2015) Read more... )
New Comments from Tokuyoshi Kawashima (voice of Hyouma Yoshimura) have arrived!! (November 27, 2015) Read more... )
New Comments from Aki Toyosaki (voice of Emi Kino) have arrived!! (December 11, 2015) Read more... )
not_sophie: (TAAKE ME AS THE MOOOOON BURNS)
In this other Tales of Graces book I have, there's these nice character profiles, and all of the playable characters as well as a handful of other major characters have comments from creators there. Those creators are Mutsumi Inomata (the character designer), Go Tanaka (the main scenario writer of Graces), and Hideo Baba (the producer of Graces). Since the book was published for Tales of Graces f, rather than the original Wii release, there's discussion of the future arc and commentary on characters from it, too, in case you haven't played that part yet, I guess.

I don't know why I wasn't posting these as I translated them, but I only just thought about how that's unusual for me with multi-sectioned things like this, like, yesterday. So here's all of those comments, all at once.

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not_sophie: (omg)
This is... basically an Inomata interview! It's our genre, guys! This particular one is from the Tales of Graces Official Complete Guide (not the Graces f guide, though I'm sure such a thing exists, I do not possess it right now). It includes the story of her meeting Michael Jackson too, which I'm sure even people who didn't know that was a thing have been curious about. That's how time works, right? I'm sure it is.

And I guess this isn't technically an interview, but it might as well be one. Players submitted questions and some were selected to ask her. That's basically it.

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not_sophie: (003)
Last Update: 7/21/2025 (Story about Alexander Graham Bell. I did actually like this one, thank goodness. I hate atmosphere science, it's so boring. But electricity and how one man ruined the entire world with a single invention? I'll take it! Plus it's the last story in the entire book heck yeah I did it guys!)

Here's the last section of this book before my normie schoolchild book practice moves on to something that's a little harder and hopefully more interesting too. Like, I might have mostly fiction after I finish this up, so that'll be nice.

Until otherwise mentioned (AKA until the final storie) the author of this section is Harumi Uenami and the artist (that you cannot enjoy without buying the book sry) is Naoki Nishiyama.

Anyway, on with the blurbs. I hated the first one with all my heart because it was unbelievably boring even though I actually found most of the previous ones mildly interesting when they didn't just reinforce things I already knew. Warmth of air, ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. I want to die. Don't tell me how thunderstorms work if it's going to be this boring OH WAIT IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT THUNDERSTORMS IT'S LITERALLY JUST WY DUZ WIND BLOW WHO CARES here you go Read more... )
not_sophie: (Velvet)
Last year today, Mutsumi Inomata passed away at 63. I wished she could have stayed longer. I love her character designs, as a loser who got extremely extremely into Tales games (particularly Destiny remake, Rebirth, Graces, Berseria, and I'll throw Zesty in too for good measure). I was such a fan of her character designs and her watercolor art I watched all kinds of random things like Acrobunch and I even went through the pain of watching Brain Powerd. Truly. I saw that before I got into Gundam, so Toshiyuki Tomino meant little to me. All I cared about was Yoko Kanno and the person I want to celebrate today with this translation: Mutsumi Inomata.

This interview is centered on Genmu Senki Leda, a nice, contained, memorable movie/OVA that she served as animation director and character designer for. It was 10 pages long in the book (though there were also a lot of her sketches of Leda characters on the pages), and took me some time to translate. I also transcribe books by typing everything up first and search for unknown kanji by radical instead of using automated tools so screw you it took a long time to do all the things. The interview is not ultra in-depth about process type things, but Inomata's personality shows through really clearly in it, and it's actually really entertaining because of that. I also just am so happy to hear about some of her tastes. Like, she watched Gamba no Bouken and she likes hardboiled noir type stories. Anyway, I'm rambling now. Let's do this. Bold is interviewer, the rest is Inomata.

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not_sophie: (Aqueliebe)
Last Update: 4/5/2025. (And finally, how to make potato chips in your microwave without oil waht the fuck. Japan truly is advanced. I never thought to do this. CLICK HERE FOR THE NEXT SECTION OF THIS BOOK.)

Wow here's another section of a book nobody cares about. But this is my practice translation blog so you're just gonna have to deal with it. That's why I've got things tagged religiously, after all, and have that handy dandy alphabetized list of stuff in the very first post that separates out things a reasonable human might care about.

This section is about food and other facts about everyday items. Unless otherwise noted, they're written by Yuka Tanno and illustrated (NOT THAT YOU CAN SEE HA HA BUY THE BOOK) by Makoto Ikutake.

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