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A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Billboard Japan about Bye Now, See You Someday!, the challenges of the morning, consulting with women about their experiences, and the benefits of running away.

(Note that a chunk in the middle of this interview weirdly overlaps with the Natalie.mu one I translated previously, saying the same things with minor changes in wording at best, but the rest is new.)

#kenshi yonezu #bye now see you someday!

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A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Natalie.mu about Bye Now, See You Someday!, flying off the handle, remaining in the distant future, and the variability of people.

(As a bonus, I also translated a short interview from a while ago I missed, about KICK BACK earning a gold certification from the RIAA.)

#kenshi yonezu #bye now see you someday!

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Kenshi Yonezu - Bye Now, See You Someday!

(Click here for my English subtitles.)

#kenshi yonezu #bye now see you someday!

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Vocaloid Highlights: March 2024

COME CLOSER / I AM A NORMAL-TYPE POKÉMON

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Dysgenics Attractoid ESPer ESPer Brat Welcome, Underdog Dinner Glorious Day Swelling Question-and-Answer Song Spring Comes Around The Subject is Myself Petal Furisode Shape Up! Belladonna Keep That A Secret Regards to the Demons Drowning in Flowers Getting Fed Up Anti-Memetic Girl Fragment Leira

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: February 2024

Don't you want to live smartly? (frantically searching for the "skip ad" button)

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Curtain Call One's Way Reflection Dreaming Scale Intergalactic Bound Tetrad Lighting the World Illuminist Edamame Curry Cooking Chocolate Masquerade Eon Ticket Dance of Life Unknown Art Poppin' Humanoid Taxy Smart??? Ten.mp4 Palms Kasane Teto's Feltagon Flower Burial Evening Shower-chan Bring Me Here-and-There Dater Muntjac From the Field ❤ Don't Laugh at Love and Peace Zunda Takoyaki From Heaven, Dear Boy. Kafu-eine Medical CAMPAIGNR Before the Journey, After the Journey Graduation

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: January 2024

(to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) Ain't it A? No, ain't it B? Ain't no way we can agree.

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Melody Connect Franken Design Ain't It a Bug Centromere Notenuff-itis That's Fine Lunatic No. 29 Scar Tissue Hit Maker Twinkling Girl Illusory Old Street Kokoro-chan Ain't It A-OK? Mistletoe Lonely Magic CRASH!!! Soap I'm Ghost-Type The coffee shop Fate-Life Resonator SINISTER Bubble x Kidz! Look at me Common Fool

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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What Did I Do In 2023?

Whatever I wanted, mostly.

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As I mentioned last year, my site now has an RSS feed with basically everything I've done back to 2020, so this will mainly be going over the same stuff from that, just with added context.

In January, I finally sat down and properly realized an idea for a short story I'd had sitting around for a while: From the Sidelines, about a fantasy RPG expedition going sideways. I remain very proud of it in both concept and execution, and hope people read it.

In February, Your Turn To Die was released on Steam Early Access, receiving character profiles and some bonus mini-episodes, adding two more later in the year.

After finishing From the Sidelines, I carried that momentum to revisit my Ut0p1a story series about funny computer animals. I'd always meant to continue it - and conclude it - but hadn't been satisfied with the ideas I had for it until totally rethinking them this year. In March, I posted the remaining stories one after another: Right to Code and Left to Code. I'm very proud of these as well. Also in March, Kenshi Yonezu released LADY. (Video, interview)

In April, Uri released the Data Book of the Strange Men Series, a big collection of the writing she's done on the games in the series, with a lot of new parts as well, all translated by me.

Then in May... uh, well, let's see. In April, Capcom released the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. I always adored the Battle Network games, and was initially excited that they finally did the thing... but by the time it came out, I was pretty disappointed by how, while you certainly couldn't call them low-effort ports, the effort didn't extend everywhere I thought it should, with the biggest offenders being the total absence of any "convenience features" except Buster Max Mode, the bad font, and the almost entirely untouched translations.

So, I ended up deciding I might as well just replay the originals, and that was a fun time (aside from the parts that were bad). Doing this, I couldn't help but notice how... turbulent the translations were, even if I'd always known they were less than ideal. I mean, the first two games just used periods for ellipses despite the tight character limits, then in BN3 they had an ellipsis character... but it's center-aligned, Japanese-style? Aside from the intro, which has normal ones? Gosh, somebody should fix that - it's simple enough to find and edit in YY-CHR. "JapanMan" is silly, too - I wonder if anybody made a patch for that? Wait, what do you mean there's just a tool to extract and insert text in all the Battle Network games including the Legacy Collection???

Thus began a journey that sort of occupied the rest of my year. First I did the BN3 Translation Revision, trying not to worry too much about cross-referencing the Japanese text unless something seemed wrong, so that I didn't spend too long on the project. Then I began to consider BN2, with its unfortunate "foreigner" text that would need some more significant reworking. I established more convenient tools for comparing with the Japanese script, and thus did a much more thorough job with it, releasing the BN2 Translation Revision in June (AKA Princess Pride Month).

Finally, after giving myself time to recover and actually finish replaying the series, I knew what I had to do to close things out. With the BN4 Translation Revision, you can finally play Battle Network 4 with a translation that isn't such a mess. Whether you'd want to is for you to decide, though if you can get over the structure, I don't think it's the worst game in the series by any means. (Oh, and in December I also updated the BN3 Revision to 1.1, doing a thorough pass with the methods I'd honed. But I think I'm pretty much good on MMBN translations now.)

Anyway, backtracking to other things that happened during my Battle Network haze... June had Kenshi Yonezu's Moongazing (video, interview), and July had Globe (video, interview, interview).

Last but not least, released in November, I translated Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, a short game from Lizardry (creator of 7 Days to End with You) with a fun concept.

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Obviously I was right to have said "no promises" last year. But really, Your Turn To Die should get its final part on Steam sometime next year, maybe even early-ish in it. That's certainly the goal.

I'm also hoping to buckle down and finish one of my own games, but as usual, who knows how that'll pan out. Letting my whims carry me this year let me finally finish From the Sidelines and Ut0p1a, which was great, and it also led me down a Battle Network rabbit hole, which was... fine, but definitely for a narrower audience. I'd always like to get back to more free game translations and the like, too, but it takes effort to find things I'd want to translate. For now, I think my increasing desire to be able to let loose some of these original games I've been planning, and the stories in them, might come out on top.

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Vocaloid Highlights: December 2023

MIKU defeated DARK MIKU! What? MIKU is evolving!

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Rec Rec Adoration Electric Link Battle! (Hatsune Miku) Topus Coupled PO Box Pong! Likes I Like A Primal CR(ei)ZY Push Through (Mark a Retort) Gotchu! The Cloudless Rain Said Dinosaur-Power Town JUVENILE Shake Stamp-Foot Beat Self Mind Control Radu and Erena Compound Friends Haze Tokyo Double Joker Dreamt-Up Future Vibrant Side-Story Hanakuma's Song is Cute and Koharu Rikka is Sooo Annoying Aspiring to Indolence

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: November 2023

If you're making the ultimate trailer, you should hire a magical girl. (with someone else's money~)

This month had the Colorless Nameless Fest... II! People submitted songs anonymously with text-only videos, with the option to have their identity revealed after the event ended. Many also posted their songs with regular videos afterward. I've included names for authors that were revealed, but a good number remain anonymous.

There were 4870 songs in this Colorless Nameless Fest, and they were all made public at once. So while these highlights are significantly bigger than usual, there are still likely tons of good songs that I just didn't hear. You can browse through all the songs here.

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Hon-De-Ju Kanitaro (Crab-taro) DNA (PV) Emotionaliar (PV) Sneaky, No Da (PV) Ballerina.jpeg This is the Big Adventure Concierge!! (PV) Gunpoint (PV) Love Talent (PV) Leave It to the Magical Girls (PV) Not Pretty I Know What's Blue to You Zun-Tsumu's Pwecious! I'mma Piggy I Knows It! Ultra Trailer Kotonoha Disco Time Showtime x Audience Daily Bullet Downhill Major Birthday Filament Fever Tell Me Help Me It's Your Favorite Color Pastime Double-Suicide Empty Anchor

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: October 2023

No talking, only eating poison mushrooms.

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== NEO Wanna Die Eating a Poison Mushroom I'm Mine Daybreak Night Flower Electric Forecast Sunny-Spot Days Gamble Shangri-la Gray Sea What Kind of Future (Mirai-Donna Darou) Eyes Closed Maple Airy Osmanthus Only Heart-Piercing Words Traveling Asia Desire for Leeway The Pokémon Inside My Heart Phantom Zero Talking Grave Jack Night Cherry Cherry Emerald Tablet Pitohui Hyudoro

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: September 2023

Playing hooky to go to the zoo and let out the Pikachus.

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Tiny Disaster No Doubt Living in the Dawn. Rera Upset Now I've Done It Playing Hooky Daydream Never Gonna Stop! Dear Dead Crossed Letter It's a Grand Strategy. ZOO Pops Never Die Imitation Waiting For Wind Aha↑↑ 16 The Second Coming of Hatsune Miku Garbàge Last Homeroom Hug lovely

(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)

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Vocaloid Highlights: August 2023

Am I a reed? Am I culture? No, I'm just teensy little me.

Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Rain Goodbye Voyager Goodbye Highway Beauty Trap Odo-Robo Relay Outer Abion Becoming Culture MAZE Deja Vu Background Memory Teensy Little Me Summer Day Apocalypse rn Eternal Holiday Weekend Travelogue Blue Planet Fiore Bottle Cake Invitation! Alien Kira-Pipi★Kira-Pika Justice Poisoning Are You a Reed. Shady Lady First Last

(Tumblr apparently limits posts to 100 links now, which I had to find out the annoying way. So for more songs that are still Worth Your Time, check this month's highlights on my site!)

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A Kenshi Yonezu interview with GINZA about Globe, common points with Hayao Miyazaki, strong sunlight and dark shadows, and what it means to feel honored.

#kenshi yonezu #globe (kenshi yonezu)

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A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Natalie.mu about Globe, the impact of Hayao Miyazaki's films, Scottish folk songs, and living in the context of history.

#kenshi yonezu #globe (kenshi yonezu)

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Vocaloid Highlights: July 2023

In case you haven't noticed, I don't wanna meet. Have you ever seen me wake up without that stupid palm-tree hair? That's not normal. Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== Space Walk Rarehenwa (No Can Do) To You, Green Lights Vulgar Even If It Becomes Ash Someday Bouquet Garni Peerless Bird Demon Lord Golden Ray Not Normal Awo (Bleu) Which Is It! Propose Forever, Forever Hinparaka Auspicious Leaf Play From the Faraway Sky Connecting Stars Don't Wanna Meet Wake-Up Palm Tree Starlight's Location Parabolas I Wanna Be That Even Sooner! Nega

========== Worth Your Time ========== Is It My Fault? Mystic Parade Metafamille Indigo Sky (2023) Creation Siren Night shed Lonesome space I Wanna Be A Liar Passing Clouds Fluttering, Fleeting Philosoph Candor Drowning in Loneliness quantum rain I-So-U ghost New Retro Iria Fad-Follower Lemonade "", We Say meow All Cyan Ghost Lantern Angraecum 404 Artificial Flowers (short ver) From Show Window to Showtime Oratorio Labyrinth Affector Turning Last Love Song Turning Point. New Me New You Metamor melancolia My End ver. 2023 AI's Form (Retake) Guernica Wing Wandering Mania Train Cool Undertone, Fall in Love Bubble Worst Day of My Life Midnight Tea House Dazed By Blue Summer Sky Nostalgia Overdue Reminder Discotica Beastie Vase Boundary Driving Oxymoron Invisible Stories Mr. Joker BLUE OCEAN!!! 1212. Twintails Border Line Blue Ripple Lily Burning Thread Rewrite Girl HALO Play. r_e_i_! Wonder Lust Incubation Liking You That Much More HIGHWAY STAR What're You Calling a Retro Boom? Curtain Call I'll Sing Your Song Violet Sunflowers Bound For Dystopia Stellar Way Just Breathing Ran-Ran Escape Raspberry Miroir Dead or Like Anabel Backfire Spinner Light Suerte Retina Ponderings on Multilaterally-Seen Self-Sacrifice, Or the Behavior Called Love Time Travel birth Only One Love Letter Cool Me Down Summer Huge Watermelon Explosion Because There Was a Clear Sky Summer Bloom Loving Summer Night Drive Journey More! Jump! More! Pouring Even

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Kenshi Yonezu - Globe

(Click here for my English subtitles.)

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The Steam version has been updated with two new mini-episodes!

WARNING: This game contains plenty of death and blood, and deals with heavy subject matter. Discretion is strongly advised. (Content warnings can be found on my game page.)

Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- (Kimi ga Shine) is a negotiation/horror/adventure game by Nankidai made in RPG Maker MV, now available (though still incomplete) on Steam. (And yes, I’m the official English translator for it.)

Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something’s gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place. Placed in life-and-death situations, they must come to an agreement about what they should do - and who should die.

As far as the main story goes, this release is largely the same as what was out already, aside from adding achievements; however, once completed, the final story part will come to Steam first.

Exclusive to this version is free DLC in the form of an external artbook with character profiles, and currently three “mini-episodes” focusing on various characters. (Nankidai would like to add more mini-episodes in the future.)

#your turn to die