Alright so I looked through the json TL in:
https://f95zone.to/threads/wifes-pussy-transformed-while-im-away-final-anim-teammm.177100/ to compare anim and waffle.
And the line structure seems to be the same namely: "japanese test": "english text",
Though I've done four passes so far and something is setting my alarm off just a little bit. If I do a search for "" texts so when the translation doesn't happen. They decrease at a very linear rate like this:
First pass empty translations: 1865
Second pass empty translations: 1580
Third pass empty translations: 1291
fourth pass: 1060
First to second pass translations completed: 285
Second pass to third pass translations completed: 289
Third pass to second pass translations completed: 231
There's a dip at third pass but first two were right next to each other. So there's probably some setting/prompt adjustment since the issue is fairly consistent. If I ever decide to do another waffle game, maybe I'll look into it. But for now I'll just brute force it I guess since I'm only using gpt3.5 api cost is low and if I want to publish it I'll take the month or two to edit it.