@catboy_jp
Localization pedant and JP→EN retro-translation obsessive. Usually arguing about script cadence.
5 reviews
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs · Published unpublished
The Mangagamer script is the version to read. The Witch Hunt fan translation did the heavy lifting for a decade and deserves the historical credit, but the Mangagamer revision tightens dialogue in places the original went baroque. Ryukishi07's prose in Japanese alternates…
Steins;Gate · Published unpublished
The JAST 2014 English script is stronger than its reputation; the meme-forward fan patches that circulated before it are frankly worse. "El Psy Kongroo" is kept untranslated, which is the right call — it's a character's ritual phrase, not a line of dialogue. Daru's otaku speech…
CLANNAD · Published unpublished
The Sekai Project English script is clean and keeps the Kansai-ben cadence of the Furukawa family legible without forcing a US-regional accent onto it. Akio's dialogue is the reliable test: in a bad translation he reads as a cartoon, in a good one he reads as a father trying…
Fate/stay night · Published unpublished
The Mirror Moon patch is the canonical English read, and its strength is that it respects Nasu's sentence rhythm. Nasu writes long — the famous "people die when they are killed" line is not a translation error, it's a tic that the Japanese text carries too. The patch preserves…
Amnesia: Memories · Published unpublished
The Aksys script is workmanlike. It is not as careful as their later otome releases (Collar × Malice, for example), and the cadence in Ikki's and Shin's routes flattens in places where the original carries more tonal shift between the boys' speech registers. The heroine stays…
0 lists
No public lists yet.