airco

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Freelance translator/フリー日英翻訳者. message to all bitches: please survive. she/they 🏳️‍⚧️

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

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still on a card game anime fix, so i went back to Battle Spirits with Zero. i don't know what pervert decided that the main character needed a magical girl transformation sequence where he burns his shirt off and flexes topless for like ten seconds, but i hope they're doing well.

English cover design for "Fate Rewinder - All Great Achievements Require Time" volume 1 by Yen Press, releasing in print and digital editions on October 27, 2026. Volume 2 on sale January 26, 2027. I think it's a great English logo design!

English volume 1 cover for "Fate Rewinder" featuring Chrono traveling through time toward the reader with his eyepatch being removed.

Things I’ve been made aware of: Watanare’s anime scriptwriter, Naruhisa Arakawa, is also known for writing Kamen Rider Kuuga. During production, he told Watanare’s author that he loved yuri and hoped that the show would lead to him working on more yuri. So yeah, Kuuga is a defender of the lesbians.

Kamen Rider Kuuga giving a thumbs up in support of lesbians.Screenshot of a twitter post by @teren_mikami.
Translation: “This isn’t a spoiler or anything for the latest volume, but I received a comment from Naruhisa Arakawa, who worked on series composition and scriptwriting for the anime: ‘If word gets out that I like yuri, then I might get more yuri-related job offers, so I’m really grateful.’ So, feel free to spread the word, everyone!”

Tai-ari is already referencing Street Fighter 1 by its fourth episode. Surely this means that it's only a matter of time until the girls talk about Captain Sawada and Akuma tatsu loops in Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game. I'm a believer.

Screenshot of Tai-ari Deshita anime.
The four girls are sitting around an SF6 setup while Mio explains her tech.

Subs: "Hitting your buttons with feeling makes your moves hit harder."Screenshot of Tai-ari Deshita anime.
Aya and Mio are sitting down for a match. Mio has a smug smile after a good mash while Aya looks at her awkwardly.

Subs: "We're not playing the original Street Fighter here."

hooting and hollering as danko continues its quest to reverse decades of hobbyani sexism with aggressive misandry. this is what equality looks like. 😌

screenshot from Dodge Danko anime.
Two loser-looking boys are talking to Danko, who's offscreen.

Subs: "It's crystal clear that we're only dragging you down."screenshot from Dodge Danko anime.
Two loser-looking boys are shouting and waving a large flag that says "New Tamagawa Dodgeball Club."

Subs: "We'll support you guys from the sidelines [as the dodgeball club's cheer squad!]"screenshot from Dodge Danko anime.
A boy is getting hit in the face with a dodgeball.

Subs: "We're your cheer squad, remem—"

子供が絵でも音楽でも文章でもなんでも自分で作ってみたいと思ったとき、周りから「そんなのAIでやれば自分でやるより綺麗にできるのに」って言われる環境で次世代のクリエイターが育つと思います?やる奴は周りになんと言われようともやるって思ってる?無責任すぎるだろそんなの…

checking in on horobeat and, ah, their first big news post is opening preorders and advertising serial-numbered rare cards before we even know a single game mechanic... tcgs in the 20s sure are great, huh......

Screenshot of a tweet from @horobeat_tcg

Says that preorders are now open for the Horobeat Card Game, containing serial-numbered rare cards with art from Akira Amano. Attached is a picture of one of his illustrations.

Source: https://twitter.com/horobeat_tcg/status/2084474460489605344

interviewer: (about tanpuri) is there anything you wanna say to people? ikumi hasegawa: it has to be in regards to luluka and kurea's relationship... there's an important episode coming for them and i almost cried in the cafe while reading the script. so what i want to say is "prepare yourself"

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what if Alexander had a biological daughter? Her name is Tove (Toe-vuh), just a month older than Gil but takes her big sister role very seriously. Nobody but her can touch her little sister!

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Kamaitachi no Yoru is simply one of the most important Japanese games in history, period. In the historical trajectory of novel games, if Otogirisou, Chunsoft's previous gane, is Pac-Land, this is Super Mario Brothers. It is that foundational in the storytelling and design paradigms it codified.

1564 Studio@1564studio.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

anime fans yearn for the hobbyani. they crave a journey of slow, yet tangible character development culminating in a finale that brings together every friend we made along the way to prove that the bonds we build can overcome any obstacle, that those innocuous days we share add up to something real.

A concise 12-13 episodes doesn’t give you any time for the baseball episode. An anime TV series is not complete without a baseball episode. We’ve got to do something about this