Still not Sophie.

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... )

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... )

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... )

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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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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