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I appreciate the work he has done, and can respect the decisions he wants to make to create whatever he feels he will enjoy most. But clearly, I do have my disagreements, thus my immediate decision to go over the scripts myself.
If you are also a relic from a bygone age (text hooker to ATLAS? What a time that was...), I think we might find common ground stylistically. I basically took a decade long hiatus from translation work and have wrestled with increasing frustration over English localizations as fansubbing gave way to more "mass-market" localizations. In my mind, a fan TL is like what insani did back in the day with games like Wind, or even Planetarian. I don't know if I can live up to those efforts, but that is certainly the target.
Appreciate that you agree with the esthetic aspects too, lol. Quite frankly I don't feel like I need to see *Shlurp* or whatever dumped on the screen (or in manga panels). Not that it's technically incorrect, but it fails the vibe check for me real hard. Again, ancient relic, but to me it's natural that a person interested in Japanese media would want to engage with the language and steadily increase their familiarity with it, and kana sound effects are a very simple place to start. I didn't expect to be clipping and recoloring hundreds of dick pics when I started doing this either, but seriously mello.second has a way better sense for the stuff than whoever did the Kagura ones, and I'm enough of a stickler for consistency that I couldn't stand having a dick that suddenly goes pale when your Imouto gets fox ears.
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