Recent content by jdstmporter

so glad to see you’re still doing this. Thank you.

I have just read this horrible manga, and now read the comments. I am dumbstruck. It seems to me that, of all of the major characters, the Saintess is the only one who shows any sign of humanity. All the rest are monsters whose entire lives are controlled by seeing how they can use rules of...

Thank you so much for this. So nice to see a translator who cares about making the result readable and idiomatic.

But he thinks that makes it okay for him to kill demons and treat them they way he claims they treated his friends. That makes him very nearly evil.

A point worth noting. The ’hero’ denounces the heroine for having killed humans when she was fighting in a war. But he is proud of having killed heaps and heaps of demons. That double standard is the point. The humans probably didn’t start the war. They may not have escalated it. But they have...

To the translator: ‘oy’ is perfectly standard usage in British English. The version considered standard throughout Europe, Australasia, India, etc (And considered classier in many other countries, including Japan). A considerably larger population that the pitiful sway of Merriam Webster...

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.