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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰

@katrinal10n.bsky.social

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Game Localization Producer & JPN-ENG Specialist! Subs for Sentai, Manga for 7 Seas. Prev. SEGA, Funimation. She/her. Opinions are mine! I ♥ translation theory. https://katrina-l-translation.online/ ローカライズ専門家! ( ｀・∀・´)ﾉﾖﾛｼｸ

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · Oct 28

やっほー！ I'm Katrina: professional translator and localization producer! 💙
I specialize in everything audiovisual: movies, TV, anime, manga, and games. 📺🎮
I love translation theory and linguistic analysis -- check out the replies to this post for links to my professional talks and short essays! 👇🔗

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Laura Innocenti @laurainno.bsky.social · 1h

Use the Excel sheet

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 2h

"Translate it as is"

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 12h

Machine translation, post-edit.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 1d

No fee, I'm afraid.

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Diana Soreil @ Kumoricon !!! @silencedrowns.com · 1d

do you throw particularly good mailing boxes on the floor for your cats for a day before you put them in the recycling or are you a non cat owner or an absolute psycho who hates fun

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 2d

it’s raining in tokyo, but not the fun kind of rain, the “just wet and misty enough for an umbrella but you’re still going to get damp because the breeze blows the tiny droplets everywhere” kind of

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 2d

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 3d

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 3d

Trigun Stargaze will debut a teaser trailer on Friday, and the description for the upcoming video says the anime will debut in January 2026.

Trigun Stargaze Anime Listed as Premiering in January 2026

TOHO Animation to reveal new teaser trailer for series on Friday after NYCC world premiere screening

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 4d

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invelica @canon.megane-moe.com · 3d

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 3d

Yes!!! I love learning new loc techniques from E-J Loc!!

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Faye Duxovni | フェイ・ドゥホヴニ @duxovni.com · 3d

Polyphemus, getting low on health in his boss fight:
"That does it."
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もう、許さない…

Such a perfect illustration of what @katrinal10n.bsky.social is always saying about 許さない! Seeing how things get translated E->J is super instructive for a J->E translator, especially the tricky little phrases 🗒️

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 4d

Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please

an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 4d

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Esme's Human-Form Ghost @raccoon.pizza · 4d

Most of my fonts i use for my comics were made by Sara, and this is PROBABLY my favorite of hers.

sara linsley @sara.pizza · Jan 12

Introducing my new comic book font, Girl Kisser 🧡🤍💖

It's all-caps, really pretty, super soft, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's hand-drawn with a micron pen and hand-traced into vectors, and it's perfect for comic book dialogue.

You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b1e9cc34d4

Large center text: "Girl Kisser", with tiny trans, lesbian, and bisexual pride flags poking out of the side.
Top left text: "Designed for use in comics"
Top right text: "Regular • Italic / Bold • Bold Italic", with each in their respective style
Bottom right text: "Manga characters ♪♫��♥※💢〜"
Bottom center text: "Free for commercial use"
Bottom left text: "internationalcharacters ¿¡ÁÈïÔŰ»"

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 4d

Show of hands—who else needed the reminder? 🙋🏻‍♀️

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

It's okay to take a break even if you don't think you deserve one.
It's okay if you don't cross off every item on your to-do list.
It's okay to not be productive every second of every day.
You are a human, not a machine.
It's okay. You're okay.
@danidonovan

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Mato @clydemandelin.bsky.social · 4d

From my book about #Undertale 's official English-to-Japanese translation

I'd like to expand on this for an article on my site, so if you have any examples of "imprinting" situations in fandoms, please let me know

Some quick examples include FF4, FF6, Trails in the Sky, what else?

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 5d

Just under half of gamers worldwide are women, according to a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association

www.gamesindustry.biz/esa-48-of-vi...

ESA: 48% of video game players are women

2025 Global Power of Play report also found that mobile is the preferred device for women and players overall

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 5d

he pulled away too fast for a lady to get off
“あ、降ります！！”

“ちょっとー　ボタン押さないとーー”

the button had been pressed. you just didn’t wait my dude.

the lady decided not to argue and just…walk the few blocks

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 5d

skrrt skrrts to an abrupt stop and everyone quietly “oofs”

speaker buzzes on. “haaaaaaaaaai shibuya sanchomeeeeee. oriru sai wa ki o tsukete kudasaaaaaai”

こっちのセリフだよ！！

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰 @katrinal10n.bsky.social · 5d

this shibuya bus driver is handling this bus like he’s trying to become the newest member of vin diesel’s family

i would enjoy it more if it weren’t standing room only

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5d

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”

JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 5d

time again to remind everyone to show your friends one cut off the dead sight unseen for october.

takayuki amateur in one cut of the dead. wearing a Hawaiian shirt and with a bleeding scalp wound he hefts a big video camera, pointing it at the viewer.

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