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Translator for Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Recommendations for Bad Children, Bofuri, Reign of the Seven Spellblades 4+, Overlord 14+, Haruhi Suzumiya (Intuition+), Witches Can't be Collared, Rascal Does Not Dream

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兄の二人の髪は青。自分のような紺色ではない。

How is navy blue not blue Japan

04.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A book called, Dear Sister in Heaven, My Niece Became a Hero but She's Too Damn Hot and I Don't Think I Can Stay Just Her Guardian Much Longer

A book called, Dear Sister in Heaven, My Niece Became a Hero but She's Too Damn Hot and I Don't Think I Can Stay Just Her Guardian Much Longer

Today in what Amazon thinks I'd like
At least you don't have to ask if its gonna Usagi Drop

03.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tojima 17
Why a motorcycle rev noise for Bat Man feeding on people/turning them into Shocker

03.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Few things in life as demoralizing as lines like 頑張るよ! 負けるわけにはいかない

03.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I typed ridulous instead of ridiculous and spellcheck was like did you mean credulous like, no options beginning with the letters I started with?

03.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't think I've ever read anything that ended with a wedding nor do I think that would be an ending I'd enjoy
Ending with them fucking though, that I can get behind

03.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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以前誰デザで創ったキャラ、なかなか気に入ったので設定を詰めていきたい🦇

03.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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1日1枚 55枚目
#illustration #OC

03.02.2026 09:00 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#イラスト #illustration

03.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 110    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0

Highly, highly important, inflexible Japanese->English translation rule dealing with any game-themed text:
ステータス: Stat(s)
状態: Status

The top is numerical attributes; the bottom is whether a party-member is poisoned or asleep
The top is literally "status" in katakana, but that's a trap

03.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 135    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 0
ご依頼イラスト。中華風の服装の女性が夜の街を背景に佇んでいる絵/Commissioned illustration. A woman in Chinese-style clothing standing with the city at night in the background.

ご依頼イラスト。中華風の服装の女性が夜の街を背景に佇んでいる絵/Commissioned illustration. A woman in Chinese-style clothing standing with the city at night in the background.

みやせ ねむ様の壁紙イラストを描かせていただきました。
ご依頼ありがとうございました。 #illustration

02.02.2026 10:06 — 👍 191    🔁 40    💬 0    📌 0
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OCちゃんらくがき

03.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You can claim that L on Lemon's sneakers is a レ all you want but I speak English first

03.02.2026 07:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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今日はみんな恵方巻きを食べてるので、いつも混んでる飲食店が空いてて良き。さわやかとか

02.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 159    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 0

I only played the 3DS remake but it still needs some major work to actually be good, at the very least make progression not require you to find the one random NPC at one specific time of day

02.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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getting some obnoxiously big titties pizza

02.02.2026 04:26 — 👍 4617    🔁 1599    💬 25    📌 81

Typo of the day: planet of MP (plenty)

02.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
a panel from the Animal Crossing manga.
A gloomy boy says he can't see the screen because of the vertical lines. The girl tsukkomis about the lines actually being there for real.

a panel from the Animal Crossing manga. A gloomy boy says he can't see the screen because of the vertical lines. The girl tsukkomis about the lines actually being there for real.

"Can't see the screen..."

"Those gloom lines are diegetic?!"

02.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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1日1枚 54枚目
#illustration #OC

02.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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2026/02/02

02.02.2026 09:06 — 👍 131    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 0
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元気にしてた?🚃

02.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 136    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0
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Some translation thoughts on recent Tsumiki chapters.

JP: こんなにキラキラしてるもの (LIT: After all, they are sparkling this much.)

キラキラ (kirakira / sparkling) has a really wide use case in Japanese, so translating it is always a challenge.

02.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0

YouTube now thinks I have a period, bless it

02.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Regular ass bunko sometimes have like, critical analysis essays at the back that fluff the hell out of the novel without saying anything.
But it does seem to be on a per publisher basis with light novels.

02.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ishura had one that was just a recipe for bolognese

02.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ya'll can just putting oscar speeches at the back of every light novel ain't nobody but your fucking translators ever gonna read that shit and we hate you for it

01.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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おはようございます🍖🍺🗽

01.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 54    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Translating zamaa miro as "Take that!" is common enough but I actually think it's pretty hard to parse, especially if it's a sudden swerve from what came before it. I've seen several instances where I think I'd have missed the point of the beat if I didn't speak Japanese. Let anime girls swear!

01.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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