I may have mentioned before that people had told us not to expect too much from Disneyland Paris. We had one friend tell us she was afraid we'd be disappointed in it, and even our longtime Disneyland associate Gaston told us we'd only need half a day to visit both of the Disney parks in Paris. (Or near Paris, rather, just like Tokyo Disneyland isn ( Read more... )

I do occasionally have thoughts that are not about Miraculous, so I figure I might as well share those, too. Something that gets talked about a lot in manga localization circles is AI, and recently one of our colleagues was talking about someone who was making an argument for AI over human translators by suggesting that maybe it would be better to ( Read more... )

About a week ago, one of our manga translation colleagues let us know that there was going to be a dissertation presentation thingie (we never got PhDs; I don't know how these things work) that discussed the influence of fan translations on professional translations, specifically as they relate to Sailor Moon and its multiple re-translations. At ( Read more... )

We're still sort of between video games after finishing story for the Pokemon DLC...I mean, we still don't have all the Pokemons, and then we're very much in the middle of Hogwarts Legacy, but since we already pressed pause on that, it still feels like we're "between" video games. That being the case, we're remembering some other entertainment ( Read more... )

Well, it's the end of another year. It really just feels like the end of another day, but that's the thing about measuring time. It's a little bit arbitrary.

But anyway, since it is the end of a year, it's that time again! Time to do a year's end year-in-review, featuring the first bit of the first post from the first day of every month! Here ( Read more... )

Today we continued with our scientific experiment, and things seem to have gone awry. But that's the thing about science, I guess. The results do not always match your hypothesis ( Read more... )

Today has been an interesting day, but not necessarily in the "interesting to other people" sense. Nevertheless, I'm going to talk about it. We finished our regular work quota significantly early, and we have a bit of a scientific mission that we have accepted, not for a client, but for the good of our fellow professionals ( Read more... )

Today turned out to be a day of doing favors for people ( Read more... )

The other day, people were talking about how much manga they had translated, and after working so long and putting out so many translations a year, we were sure we must have hit the thousand mark by now. So lyschan asked what our thousandth volume was, and we were like, I don't know, we don't keep track. And she suggested we find out, and we were like, ( Read more... )

Today one of our publishers sent out an email to all the translators because they've updated their guidelines, and it's important to let people know when changes are made. But we tend to have a nervous reaction when we get emails like that, and they always make us wonder if we're in trouble somehow. Of course, the only change to the guidelines ( Read more... )