32, girl, any pronouns. Multimedia artist with a degree in Japanology. I write, draw, translate and nerd out.
英語も日本語も話せるオーストリア人のオタク(女)。翻訳もイラストも出来ます。ぜひ話しかけてください。
So, apparently Ian Flynn's writing in Sonic Frontiers was so powerful that the English - Japanese translators at Sega JP couldn't really handle it because it was like nothing they'd translated before and as a result the game sounds google translated in Japanese.
*amazing*
For the record, I don't think this will ruin the game for the JP fanbase. Japanese fans are KNOWN for putting out translation patches in record time in cases like these.
No idea where this is from,but the photo claims that official compile material says that Puyo are mammals that reproduce sexually and have up to 150 young per brood.
@TrimintBackup
@multimariobros6
NOOO! That is incredibly untrue, NEVER say that!
As a translator, reading stuff like this hurts me!!
Please, please, please never say stuff like that!
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@multimariobros6
Firstly: Localization is not a different thing from translation. Localization is an ASPECT of translation, and a necessary aspect at that!
@tomoyo_pocoyo
The entire Frill plot should never have happened. It destroyed everything in 1 second flat, and the show got just worse from minute to minute after that.
As short explanation as to why Puyotwt is currently full of drawings of Arle as a fox girl:
Remember that cup noodle commercial with Sephiroth that was making the rounds a while back? Well, that company's new videogame collab is with Puyo.
There's official art even.
Amazing.
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@multimariobros6
Languages are heavily rooted in the cultures they come from and thus it is almost impossible to translate a text from one language into another without trying to change cultural context to maintain the original meaning of the dialogue. THAT'S what localization is.
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@multimariobros6
"Literal" translation is something people just say, but from an academic and practical standpoint, it simply does not exist. Languages are not like file formats, where you just change some encoding and everything displays exactly the same.
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@multimariobros6
What happened with Japanese Sonic Frontiers is actually a case where the translators did not localize *enough*. They maintained English sentence structures in Japanese and as a result Sonic and Amy sound like they ate a Japanese grammar textbook for breakfast.
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@multimariobros6
When you translate you ALWAYS have to make creative choices, and those creative choices will determine, how well what the original text conveyed arrives at the new audience. If you try to *not* localize, you WILL fail at this goal, because localization is NECESSARY to convey.
Summary of what we know about the new
#MadouMonogatari
title:
*) "Madou Monogatari 4" is the working title
*) Compile Heart is the main dev, Sega and D4 are also involved
*) Suke, SkeleT, Carby and
#PuyoPuyo
confirmed
*) From concept art, it looks like Ichi is doing the art
I have since been informed that Director Morio Kishimoto himself did a lot of the localization work, which is commendable for a creative, but also DUDE THIS IS NOT YOUR FIELD OF EXPERTISE, GET A PROFESSIONAL'S HEEEELP-
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@multimariobros6
On the other hand, localizing TOO heavily can result in a finished text that is extremely different in meaning and vibe from the original. Which is ALSO a failure of translation.
It's done.
More than a week, some acrylic paint, some clear varnish and 3 different types of glue later, here are my finished
#PuyoPuyo
Charagumins of Sig and Ringo! I am really happy with how they turned out ultimately <3
So, Puyo Puyo Quest's All Star Academy isn't an AU.
It's a kidnapping scheme by Ms. Accord and a mysterious other party (possibly Satan) to force everyone to LARP being high school students.
Some
#AHatInTime
fanart. I adore
@cyanatar
's art direction on the game so much, her artwork is so lively and vivid, making everything feel so animated! I would never try to copy someone else's style, but it's artist like her that motivate me to make my art more expressive! ^_^
Interview with Yuuki, a grade-school aged Puyo Puyo player who happens to be one of the best in Japan, famous for destroying grown ups while cuddling a Carbuncle plush.
He says he got into Puyo Puyo because his Mom is a Tetris player-
Since some people apparently don't get that it is okay to find this stuff funny sometimes:
NONE of this was an attack against the translators. VG translation is hard as shit. I would know, I've done it. The joke was that Ian Flynn apparently overextended the available capacities.
#PuyoPuyo
Quest doing Madou Monogatari-style pixel art and changing the home screen music to "Try Out" from Madou 1 is such a neat April Fool's Day thing! <3
God, I think I'm gonna stream Madou tonight.
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@multimariobros6
An appropriate amount of localization would have adjusted their speech styles to suit what Japanese players are used to from the characters!
The new Tanabata event is set in a time when Ecolo has managed to get himself a body and now attends school with Ringo and the others, going by the fake name "Ekoguchi Tabito".
So, since this is apparently my legacy on bird app now, hello, I am Neni, I have a degree in Japanology and translate video games from JPN to ENG in my spare time, mostly on YouTube, sometimes as full translation patches
Play Puyo Puyo.
Here's a hot take:
Action Puzzle games are an underappreciated genre that has been done dirty by people perpetuating the idea that it's "all just variations on Tetris" for far too long, an attitude that ended up killing great series, like Panel de Pon(Puzzle League).
Elon Musk is an awful liar with plans that are terrible for everyone, including himself, and has a trans family member named "Vivian" whom he is incredibly horrible too.
Conclusion:
Elon Musk is actually Beldam from TTYD.
I just realized that ARLE'S EYES ARE BROWN AGAIN.
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BROWN SINCE MINNA DE PUYO PUYO ON THE GBA.
THEY'VE CONSISTENTLY BEEN XEHANORT-YELLOW FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS-
We love the lore! 🎉'Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop' expands the many stories of fan-favorite characters in the 'Puyo Puyo' universe!
Are you tapped in? Check it out on
@AppleArcade
!
🔗:
I love the way Sig stares at his hand at the start of the dodgeball challenge in the Pachislot. It's like
"Should I actually use this overpowered inhuman appendage of mine to throw a heavy ball at Ami? ...Eh, it'll be fine, probably."
Puzzle Pop doesn't have an official Japanese logo, instead choosing to just subtitle the English one even on the Japanese website.
This game was clearly primarily developed for the western market.
#PuyoPuyo
@crepesuzette
@tomoyo_pocoyo
Yep. It also immediately removed Momoko from the plot, just when her character was hitting a stride, by retraumatizing her.
All those responses on Capcom's localization thread are shameful. So many people do not comprehend how translation works on a fundamental level. There is NO SUCH THING as a "literal translation", especially not from Japanese, that's the first thing you learn when studying...
Making tie-in art for my fanfics is always fun. Makes it easier to figure out if things actually work the way I visualize them while writing. (Often they don't.)
On that note, here's Ringo after being mindswapped with Ecolo in my latest fanfic, "A River of Mind and Matter".
The current absolute state of the
#PuyoPuyo
fandom.
(Found in the tags of the Ao3 fanfic "Detective Klug and the Beautiful Bishounen" by VinculumStellarum)
#PuyoPuyo
I translated the Magazine Article the famous "Magical Girl Puyo 7" Concept Art came from, which reveals a bit more about it!
Full Size:
Thanks to
@DusklightDGArle
, who provided the scan!
@kjnanika
@Gamer34Ultimate
@CrazyAssNinten
Fluent Japanese speaker here.
"Onore" is not "masculine"
Japanese deitic classifiers don't work like English pronouns, and I wish people would stop spreading the misinformation that they do.
You could have tweeted some nice art of Hydrangea season and how the plant relates to Sig's upcoming birthday, seeing how he's a pivotal character in the game's plot, but you decided to do this instead.
How do you do, fellow sorcerers...
Gyatt dang, Carbuncle! Those Puyos thicc! 😩
🟢 'Mega Puyo Rush' brings big Puyos to
#PuyoPuyoPuzzlePop
! This simple but complex style is available to play in-game now! 🔴
Lives rent-free in my brain.
Eats doritos because triangles and plays puzzle-games while making bad math-puns.
No, seriously, Sega, bring back Ringo's Magical Girl dress, or you and I are gonna have issues-
I am not especially good with 2D Animation, but I am learning. Here's my rough attempt of transferring Schezo's infamous dabbing animation from
#PuyoPuyo
Sun to his 20th-onwards design.
Yuki Maeda, VA for Feli!
Translation:
"For the first time in a long while I had a recording for Puyo Puyo today. I had to record in Kansai due to medical issues on my end, but I am so thankful it worked out! (cont)
In honor of the new
#MadouMonogatari
game being announced, I drew some 90s dungeon crawler girls, ready to embark on an adventure!
#PuyoPuyo
#魔導物語
#ぷよぷよ
"You're seem really... interesting. Teeheehee..."
Ecolo takes Ringo's form in battle in
#PuyoPuyo
7.
I think the game could've done more with that fact.
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「りんごちゃんって…面白いね♪ アハハ!」
セブンでは、勝負中のエコロはりんごの姿ですね。なんだか興味深いな… #ぷよぷよ
Things that happen in the Puyo Puyo Drama CDs:
*)Arle is inflicted with magical Alzheimer's (NOT garden variety amnesia) by a faerie
*)We learn that Draco's pageant obsession stems from wanting non-human representation.
*)We learn Lemres escaped an abusive household
[THREAD]
Madou/Fever roleswap art, the third! Now it's Amitie's turn.
Making an outfit for her based on Arle's armor was super fun. The headpiece could be better though... I'm bad at drawing overly geometric stuff.
#PuyoPuyo
Marle and Squares fans eating good this White Day.
(I'm just glad Squares apparently released Marle once he decided she has sufficiently fulfilled her chocolate servitude.)