Recent content by jdstmporter

Thank you so much for picking this up. I love Excel Saga and Holy Brownie, so it’s great to finally see more of Rikudo’s work translated. Please keep up the good work.

Thank you so much for this. We all need more Bambi!

Someone ought to say it: I am so grateful for the work you’re putting in on translating Bambi. Otherwise we would never have even known who the old men were…

Was this machine-translated? I’d hate to think something so bad was done by a human.

Taking the view that translation is about conveying meaning in an idiomatic way, not just literal correspondence, the problem with that phrase is the retention of the name ‘Alexandra’, where, in English, ‘I’ would be correct. Japanese prefers names where English prefers pronouns, so names...

I has been enjoying this. And then the author goes and makes homophobic remarks in the afterword. Oh well, another one off the list.

Thanks for this. Keep up the good work.

Given that this book (and the whole series) is, like all of Lewis’ fiction, an explicitly Christian parable, the tags applied here are a bit off-putting. I know that ‘isekai’ and ‘fantasy’ and ‘magic’ all have specific meanings, but in the context of current manga they carry a lot of...

Just to add to the fun, to describe C S Lewis as writing ‘weird English’, as the translator does, speaks worlds about their lack of literacy.

I do so hope this doesn’t end up with Ark Royal found guilty based purely on presupposition. But then, confusing the actions of the lynch mob with ‘justice’ is a characteristic of Japanese Manga, so it probably will, and everyone will be happy. Though this is a terrible travesty of how the...

Who needs proof, when you’ve got prejudice?

Thanks so much for letting us see what happens next. I hope we’ll get to the end of Bambi’s journey. So thank you again for taking this one up.

Thank you so much for this. I was appalled at the other translator, who seemed to blithely assume that violence against women just wasn’t a thing that mattered, making their silly little point, and standing on a false principle. I thought this looked fun, and I am glad that somebody is letting...

My problem with this is that, yes, the male lead is a vile psychotic, with no redeeming features, and is presented as such. But, presenting him as such, unimpeded, over so many chapters ends up not as a condemnation, but rather as a celebration of his vileness. The heroine’s sheer passivity in...

All the momentum dissipates, and we’re left with … what? It doesn’t end, it just stops, with nothing resolved.