Back in… 2008? 2009? I started this blog to host all the stuff I was translating. It made sense, then! I was unemployed for about 7 months after I got back from Japan, and that gave me lots and lots of time to translate everything I had bought. (I did that after job hunting, of course.) Once I got a job, I figured I’d keep up the translation, because I wanted to keep up my Japanese.

But things didn’t work out that well! I had a job. I had a social life. And, worse yet, I got involved in several highly addictive, extremely dorky activities. And between World of Warcraft and GateMUSH, when in the world was I ever going to translate?

So, except for small things, I didn’t. FOR THREE YEARS.

And now I’m forgetting a lot. I know it. So, as an exercise, I’m translating Atelier Marie. I’m not even going to check the internet–I’m sure someone else has done it. Whatever! That’s fine. I don’t know if my attention will hold out for the entire game anyway. I’m just doing this as a way to get myself thinking in Japanese again. :\

So I’ll post stuff when there’s stuff to post! \c.c/

But the holidays are coming up, and holidays come with (some amount) of free time, so hopefully I can at least get some proofreading done.

Sorry for not being around lately!

I’m on a little mini-break from translating right now, but I’ll get back to it soon. I need to edit some of SWR desperately–the early translations in particular have errors in them–but for now I’m being laaaaaaazy.

I’ll be back and active soon! :(

All 3 scenarios, plus endings, for Touhou: Hisou Tensoku!

I’ll edit them later. And add pictures from the endings. And explain what in the world Mei Ling is going on about. But that’s all later, because I’m a wee bit lazy, I need to go grocery shopping, and really, isn’t that enough? ♥

PS: Checked out my visitor statistics from the last few weeks. Now there are a bunch of Spanish-speaking folks linking to my translation, too. Why are my translations so popular with so many people who don’t speak English? It’s kind of awesome, but it’s still really weird.

I’m still alive! Work and life is TRYING TO KILL ME, but I’m still alive.

Hopefully I can get back to doing fun stuff over the long weekend!

I still don’t know what to do with the title–I thought it was Hisouten Soku for a while (Hisouten being one of the Buddhist levels of heaven, and… soku meaning nothing by itself), so apparently it’s Hisou-Tensoku, and now that I know it’s something’s *name* I’m just… keeping it as two words, because whatever.

Sanae’s Plot in Touhou: Hisou Tensoku. Enjoy! There are a number of tricky lines, and a few things I probably missed. And I haven’t edited anything.

But whatever, I have friends playing it, so this is more for them than anything. :D

I suppose it’s worth noting that I HATE ALL OF THE MORIYA SHRINE TEAM. I hate them, I hate their NUCLEAR POWER, I hate Utsuho, and I hate Sanae.

ALSO, PREEMPTIVE: I translate “Mei Ling” as “Mei Ling” and not, you know, MEIRIN, because Mei Ling is a *real Chinese name* and that’s how they romanize it.

Edited Patchouli and Aya! That takes care of all the stories up to the collapse of the shrine. Of course, none of those were the super-old ones needing tons of editing, either, BUT WHO CARES.

I’ve been working on real (original) stories too much lately, and it takes away from my translation/editing time. Why do I have so many writing-related hobbies? :( Writing is tedious.

Fixed some things in Yuyuko’s Scarlet Weather Rhapsody translation! I had a couple of sentences wrong. Whoops!

I’m still not 100% sure what Tenshi was saying there at the beginning of her stage, though. Friggin’ Tenshi! Stop making my life difficult with your overblown EPIC DIALOGUE!

Ah, I still need something new to translate, though~ I think I’ll translate a little of Princess Maker 5 or something. After I finish editing SWR.

Random fun times: My birthday is this weekend! Woo!

Ghetto five minute translation of the Story:

It was a morning without sunlight, a morning held in darkness.
Perhaps, you wonder, it is just the late-summer morning fog?

You take off in flight from your home, hoping for a mist to help you forget the summer heat.

But when you see *that*, swaying before your eyes, it is no exaggeration to say you’re shocked.

It resembles a human, giving off a lukewarm, evil-seeming vapor
that, as you look upwards toward the mountain, appears to be swaying gently.

— The mountain, in summer, has always been hot, has always been lively.
And she turns her eyes down on the human-looking *that* far below.

So I suppose I’ll just slooooowly putter along through the SWR edits for a while. I touched up Suika’s today, though it didn’t need too much attention. I did fix one line I didn’t quite understand before, though!

I haven’t edited Yuyuko’s story yet, but I did fix the ending with the Japanese Zidane found. :)

I am tired tired tired today, though. Staying up until midnight watching the hail beat down my apartment was probably not a good idea.