The series I'm scanalating is supposed to be pretty funny, but some readers have said that it feels more upsetting than anything, and I'm sure it's because of my translation. I try to be pretty loyal to the original, so often it sounds stiff, but I realize changing the wording there or adding something here would improve the result. How much do you change to make sure the meaning is conveyed? I probably just need a good proofreader, don't I.
Scanalation Thread
David Foster
Thomas Clark
Asking this again since I didn't get a reply.
Does anyone remember the name of that one manga where the high school boy ends up living with some high school girl, and the high school girl turns out to be the voice actress of the boy's waifu? The only other thing I can remember about it is that it's a manga adaptation of a light novel.
Sebastian Robinson
Quit my agency last week.
Today they took the company PC assigned to me.
Also just lost access to the Adobe License an hour ago.
Sad day my dudes.
Good thing I have this old friend saved on a USB.
Ian Russell
Maybe it's just redditors not understanding dark humor. Or maybe it's you. Hard to say without examples.
Cameron Hughes
Are you another tsuntsuntsuntsunshit translator?
Nolan Richardson
Mangadeadx
Dominic Cox
Zachary Russell
Also found this sitting in my Pictures folder, how to replicate halftone gradients
Adrian Hernandez
Can you give some examples of things people have complained about?
Ryan Rogers
>I'm translating a drama rape erotica
>I accurately reflect some of the gruff language used in it using phrases like “If you talk to that sodding mushroom bloke again I'll bloody kill him”
>Comment section is full of people praising the translation for being very funny when it wasn't my intent to be funny, just accurate
What am I doing wrong? Are they just not used to gruff language in translations?
Angel Long
Post a page, nigger, we're not ESPers.
Samuel Butler
Maybe they're simply incredulous at the notion that a British person could find a lethal weapon.
Isaac Martinez
Ore no iinazuke ni natta jimiko, ie de wa kawaii shika nai.
William Cox
Post example sentences.
Dominic Butler
Very useful user, I've been doing a lot of halftones lately
Grayson James
Surely it's the comments update (cope)
Xavier Johnson
Is the Telegram channel broken again?
Ian Long
doesn't seem like it
Jordan Thompson
It's not ripping Ran Twins, Grast, noicomi or Kirara Forward.
James Gonzalez
Can somebody help me with the red bubbles? I understand WHAT it's being said but not WHO is saying it.
It's either the girl, which makes more sense given that the lady says then "Didn't I tell you", but from the context I'm not sure she would call her おばあちゃん、or it's the lady asking a rhetorical question, but the it wouldn't make sense to say "Didn't I tell you".
Ayden Parker
>I try to be pretty loyal to the original, so often it sounds stiff
If the original wasn't stiff sounding, then your translation wasn't loyal now was it?
Lincoln Brooks
look at the fonts
Jackson Gonzalez
I can't even read, but check the fonts. These bubbles are in the same font as the thought bubble, so those are probably girl's thoughts.
Also, you have no excuse for not italicizing thought balloons.
William White
thank you. makes perfect sense now. and you are right about using italic.
Benjamin Moore
I use a different font for thoughts desu