Undertale translator explains EN to JP localization

Undertale translator explains EN to JP localization

Meet Keiko Fukuichi, a Japanese freelance translator, who sits down to talk to us about her experience translating games, particularly indie darlings Undertale and Hades. She talks to us about nuances of Japanese translation, the biggest challenges she's had, and her experiences studying abroad and learning English.


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0:00 Intro

0:50 How Keiko learned English

5:10 Studying at Florida high school

11:20 Deciding on translation as a career

13:40 Translation school

18:28 Interest in book translation

23:44 Experience as a gamer

25:35 First game translation project

27:21 Limitations translating games to Japanese

28:40 Taking on Undertale project

30:12 Translating Papyrus

33:40 Limitations of not using kanji

38:41 Keiko's translation philosophy

40:35 Translating puns, jokes, and memes

43:54 Working with Toby "Radiation" Fox

45:11 Translation workflow

48:37 Do you play your own work?

49:48 Translating Hades

52:33 Translating old English

55:41 Can you use difficult kanji?

1:00:14 Translating with voice acting

1:02:38 Changes in translation industry over 20 years

1:06:07 Dealing with slang

1:08:38 Looking back

1:09:42 Are you worried about AI?

1:12:55 Do you have time to play games?

1:16:01 Studying vocabulary for Return of the Obra Dinn

1:17:42 Is interest in foreign indie games growing?


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