And we haven't "mistakenly credited the TL as the PR". I PR and QC a good portion of my TLs. Jesus Christ. Also, I'm not the type to TL everything word by word. I try to phrase my TLs in a manner to make them more coherent and sound better in English. Plus, I'm an English teacher, so no need to be worried about my PR skills.
Should people grade their own JLPT tests? We don't actually even have to make an analogy, I will keep it straight. By claiming that you have proofread your work, you are claiming that you found your translation to be without mistakes. Obviously a translator should think so, that shouldn't need to be said at all. If a translator were to find an error in their translation, then they would correct it, no? Then what does it mean to be a doublet TL/PR? Yet the usefulness of a potential proofreader is ever obvious. Pg. 37, our protagonist asked for something in the top panel. But in the next, it is instead the guildmaster who asked for it. Clearly there is something amiss, and it isn't even a matter of bad Japanese or English but of bad conception of basic human dialogue or interaction. One would have to be impossibly dull to misread the scene, but rarer things have happened. What's the likelyhood of a proofreader also being as dull as the TL here? Even if it happens to everyone (it does, and no amount of "novels" can make you immune), one would think that the odds can be played by doubling up on review, that even if a proofreader can be as dull, it's unlikely to occur on the same page, on the same back-to-back panels, for which it occured for the TL. This is obvious to anyone who works, neverminding translation particularly. In your application of the concept, proofreading is devoid of meaning. Its adoption in the credits is an empty emulation of others, probably stemming from arrogance, hence saith thou "I have been trained by the CIA in gorilla Japanese for 6 years and have over 360 confirmed novels..."
Whew. There's a lot of circular logic going around there that I won't even bother addressing. But let's start with the most obvious nonsense that you spewed in your last comment.
I'm not sure what IdidNineEleven is referring to, but I did find something that threw me off on page 37.
Aside from missing a second "one" (one-on-one) this line does not make sense coming from the guild master, specifically the "I'm talking about" part - for a second there I thought that was meant to be SR's line, not the guild master's. As in:
But the line is the guild master's, not SR's, so that can't be correct. So I checked the raws through Google Lens and confirmed things with Jisho; it looks like the guild master is simply stating:
Or
Either way this flows better with the scene:
Alright, I'll take what you said into consideration. I had a severe migraine when I translated that chapter, so I wasn't really in top form back then. I'll go over the chapter again for good measure. It's just that the way he phrased it rubbed me off the wrong way. Anyway, thanks a bunch! But gosh, maybe I should have just gone with the other fantasy series I had in mind. I always wanted to work on a shounen/seinen series with an OP MC (I know that lots of people are not big on this trope and I get where they're coming from lol) since series like this one usually get snatched by MTL cash grab scans, but I never thought working on these types of series will come with all of this gribing nonsense and toxic behavior. Oh well. It is what it is.
Skilled TL can do PR on their own just fine. But common practice in many translation agencies, TL & PR would be handled by different people to avoid biases and wasting time. TL & PR required different mindset & skillset and average translator needs a period of rest to switch role aka wasting time by company standard. Hence why in agencies, TL & PR handled by dedicated people.
