Jocelyne Allen

A glass of beer and the bottle from which it came on a wooden table in a restaurant with soft lighting. The silver label on the bottle says Orion the Draft.

Finally free of the plane and celebrating with the local brew!

First my flight was delayed bc every school trip in Tokyo was boarding it, and now we have to go back to the terminal bc someone is sick. I think I live on the plane now.

I was sceptical but Family Mart’s edamame and cheese onigiri is surprisingly tasty. If you happen to be in the mood for a conbini snack!

豆腐に鎹 might be the best idiom I’ve ever come across for “wasted effort”. Imagine it, putting a staple in some tofu. Nothing but a mess of bean curd to show for it. #TranslationIsLearning

I love travelling, but I've done so much packing and hotel booking and going over the last month that I want to set down roots and become one with my apartment. And yet I must pack and book and go once again. When I get back, though, I'm going to grow moss. I'm going to get so *dusty*

The sad face isn't an OD. I think it's supposed to be tolerance building up, so you need more to feel the same high. The fact that the diagram is not clear without the words makes your point, though.

Actually typed “free dial” just now as totally normal English that everyone uses all the time. #AmTranslating

Yes! Shame those bad manner talkers!

I wish I knew!

Close up of the deranged もっと face from the previous skeet

I don't need drugs to feel this deranged. I have deadlines. The もっと I need is 時間.

A clear file with a diamond pattern in shades of green and a darker green silhouette of a feminine figure making heart hands. At the bottom, it says Nanakorobi Sarasa, and there is a white sticker at the top that says "Just say No to drugs". A page with links, phone numbers, and QR codes leading to various drug help centres is sitting on the right side of the clear file.

The other side of the paper with drug helplines. It explains excessive drug use and has a particularly hilarious vicious circle diagram of a smiley face being like just once is fine. The next face is all whoa, this is amazing, followed by a sad face coming down, a panicked/stressed face being like I don't feel as good as I did before, and then a total freak face with bugging eyes against a background of もっともっともっともっともっともっと It's the pamphlet equivalent of Reefer Madness.

The war on drugs has reached Japan at last, and they are battling it with clear files featuring a municipal VTuber, sure to set the hearts of the kids on fire and keep them on the straight and narrow.

I’ve never seen anyone actually chastised for using their phone on the train. It’s usually a lot of stinky side-eye from other passengers. But this guy in my car just snapped at a phone talker, 降りてから電話しろよ、マナー悪いな. He is my new hero.

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Our gender-questioning saviour

This is the thing that gets me. This one word bothers them so much that they must spend their one precious life complaining to the publisher/translator?? Like you, it’s never occurred to me to complain about writing/typos/ etc

That's the funniest part! The source said something like 性別にかかわらず (can't remember exactly now) and it wasn't the section with "demon" in the scanlation; it was the bit before that.

Or this!

The thing that always cracks me up about complaints like this is these people are going through each and every volume of a series with a fine-tooth comb, just looking for something to get angry about, when they could simply enjoy reading the book!

man... mm, just give him a konbeito [7A 4] to encourage him." But, after listening to Miku. The troubled Ai Mai Mii trio looked at each other. "? What is it? Ha, was it a demon who found him...?" "No, no, that's not what it is..." "How do I put this, it's that there're too many people who found him..." "Or to put it that he doesn't have anywhere to hide..."

Their proof of my obvious and terrible mistranslation is...this fan translation. Case closed! I guess I will have to hang up my translator hat and find a new profession!

Hey, did you change a sentance in date a live volume 6 from demon to non-binary? Like, this is a japanese book from 10 years ago, I do not think Koushi Tachibana used that word. I just want to understand why did you do this. I don't want to attack you or any non-binaries here. Just to understand

I trust that you understand that I have nothing against non-binary people and respect them, it's just that this shouldn't appear in the translation. This is a book from more than 10 years ago almost, this and a lot of other terms used are wrong. As you can see, the word demon is what I refer to, it has been changed like I said in the english translation, to non-binary.

Rediscovered this reader complaint in my screenshot folder today and enjoyed another hearty laugh about it. Please trust that they respect and love the non-binaries; they do not want to attack. They simply want no non-binaries in translations. They want the demons.

The image alone is so great! I'll have to try and watch morning TV to catch the song.

豆腐に鎹 might be the best idiom I’ve ever come across for “wasted effort”. Imagine it, putting a staple in some tofu. Nothing but a mess of bean curd to show for it. #TranslationIsLearning

I've definitely never seen it anywhere

I took in approximately thirty seconds of one video and immediately closed the tab. I am too Old for whatever his thing is. (Also, yes! Echoey!)

Wow, those are pretty bad though

Screenshot of garbage app. Overall colour palette is peach and beige. At the top it says 新宿区 Sinjuku City, and below this there is garbage info in text boxes. At the bottom is an illustration of a puppet boy creature wearing a white cowboy hat and a red uniform with a white belt and a green cape with an orange lining. His eyes are almost entirely pupil, rimmed with large eyelashes, his nose is a pink button, he has a pink circle on either cheek, and his lips stretch unsettlingly from the outer edge of one eye to the outer edge of the other. He looks like he would visit you in the night, pluck your heart from your chest, and eat it while it still beat in his hand, never once breaking eye contact with you as you perished. He says 資源・ごみは当日の朝８時までにお出しください

Jump scare from this demonic marionette every time I open the garbage app. I just want to know if I need to take the burnables out. I don't need the extra nightmare fuel. (Bonus points for old school romanization of Sinjuku for extra sin)

It is crucial to know where this Hikakin lives. Your son is very kind to have informed you of this!

A map of the area around Nagoya, showing a bear paw for a bear sighting, and a blue head and shoulders for the report of a suspicious individual.

Gifu Shimbun has a map which plots monthly bear sightings and reports of suspicious individuals. The result looks like a strategy game, pitting bears against perverts. www.gifu-np.co.jp/articles/-/3...

And now I have been forced to learn about Japanese YouTubers. Now I know who Hikakin is. This is not knowledge I want in my head. My job is dragging me kicking and screaming into the modern age.

That would definitely cause some headscratching