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Buddy Waters

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Translator for Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Recommendations for Bad Children, Bofuri, Reign of the Seven Spellblades 4+, Overlord 14+, Haruhi Suzumiya (Intuition+), Witches Can't be Collared, Rascal Does Not Dream

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · Jun 4

English is way harsher on repetition than Japanese, so part of a light novel translator's job is tweaking the wording so it says the same shit, but without sounding redundant.
I thought I'd do a rundown of a few tricks that help with this.

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白浜鴎 @shirahamakamome.bsky.social · 1h

【お知らせ】アメリカの漫画賞・ハーヴェイ賞で『とんがり帽子のアトリエ』が2025年のベストマンガ賞を受賞いたしました！ハーヴェイ賞は4度目のノミネート、同賞は2020年に次いで二度目の受賞となります。とても光栄です。応援してくれている皆さんのおかげです、ありがとうございます！🎊 #Δ帽子

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NYCC '25: Presenting the 2025 Harvey Awards winners

Here are all the winners of the 2025 Harvey Awards, presented Friday, October 10 at New York Comic Con 2025.

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東屋十四郎🎨 @azumaya146.bsky.social · 1h

出かける前にお絵描き。

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently it is supposed to be a pun on flash grenade which doesn't even work in Japanese.

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 2h

Al recognizing Rem in volume 4
Pays off in volume 42

Also I think this chapter is called Flash Rem-o-nade

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 7h

I kinda like how I made 'gave' stand for 'give a fuck' here

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 7h

I felt like the second cup of coffee (after work) was making me jangly so I started skipping it and and immediately took three whole ass evenings to get through 130 pages of a book so I don't gave if I vaguely felt like I slept better I'm back on the evening coffee grind

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io @waxwings.bsky.social · 7h

persimmon season

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 8h

Never before has this kind of quality cake been available at a truck stop

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 8h

A massive improvement on the first, yes

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 8h

Running into every Spirit yelling "Not ukiyo-e enough!" and running back out

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 8h

Haven't been impressed by previous lime flavored snacks but these Jalapeno Lime flavored pistachios acquired in an ill-advised truck stop run are actually hitting the spot
I mean, they forgot the Jalapeno part by salty lime pistachios are still pretty nice

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Galene @aocinale.bsky.social · 11h

Shinjiteita Nakamatachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakamatachi wo Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!

Nazuna being a dumb dog get rekt

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 11h

She has the inspiring ideology AND a thought-out political strategy. Can't imagine a better leader for our times, any times

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 10h

My favorite stupid comment this week was "ugh, it doesn't even have red velvet flavor, it's just chocolate with food coloring"

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 10h

Why did autocorrect choose that instead of without

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 10h

I particularly liked the inversion of "You can solve things with diplomacy" to "You can solve things whiteout punching"

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 11h

Punching Lady
I also quite like this translation, it has exactly the right flair to sell the jokes

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 11h

Mugen Gacha 2
Heard this had a major tone shift and suddenly it's a way better kind of trash. Nazuna alone saving it. Very obvious debt to Overlord though.
Also bolstered by the best translation this season, Sasuga Nazuna->You slay, queen was my favorite.

Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 13h

Did the play in Sky, which is long as hell.
Politically a complete mess but also the sort of mess you write when you know rich assholes who still think they're nobility a hundred years after their titles were stripped away are prepared to drop shittons of mira on your favorite charities.

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J-Novel Club @jnovelclub.bsky.social · 14h

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