Recent content by Tokonatsu

Re: Hard time reading informal Japanese... Wow, thank you so much for your help! I really like how you worded the last lines, too! ^_^

Hello again! Sadly, I got stuck again not even two pages after the page I asked for help on last time! *siiiigh* Here's what the guy says: 俺はいつもでもそこのはいない。 だから、 自分で考えて行動しろ って言ってるんだ。 全然わかってねえ そうしたら俺は、 アッシュから 奪った物を全部返しても 俺でいられる気がするんだ。 Which I've roughly...

Re: Having difficulties with a Japanese cultural concept... Thanks so much! That makes way more sense! Yeah, I'm trying to teach myself the more polite Japanese before moving on to the informal kind that is used by so many characters... So I am finding myself at a loss whenever this guy...

Hello! Thank you for coming! I'm still working away at my first translation but I'm a bit stuck again... This time I'm at what's almost like a turning point in the story so I really don't want to screw it up! What the main character says is: でも あいつの背中が いつも前にあるから、 俺ももっと...

Re: Translation help Basically, the way I've learned it works is that "yo" is like a verbal exclamation point, and "ne" is like a feminine way of adding a softening "...isn't it?" to the end of a sentence. So in order for guys to use it they will add a nice manly "da" in front. So it ends up...

Re: A little help with kanji, please? Argh! Jeez, I need some more practice... DX Now that you mention it, that's obviously what it means! The guy who is speaking has always been peeved about how pathetic the guy he's talking about is. And since in the scene he accidentally scared the...

Re: A little help with kanji, please? Thank you! I have to admit I was using Google translate for that line and (as expected) now that I see how it's actually pronounced it was totally wrong in a bunch of places. >.< Basically, what I've tweaked it around to now is this: Once again...

Re: A little help with kanji, please? Wow, thank you so much!!! You really know your stuff! Lol, when I read the first guy's line I was like, "So that kanji is for pottery... wait, what??"　 I gotta say I love how you first translated it directly and then rearranged it after that, it's...

A little help with kanji, please? Hello, and thanks for coming! I'm working on my first translation and I've come across a person who uses advanced kanji like crazy! At one point the guy thinks to himself: また反射だけの 卑屈な謝罪や 礼言いやがったら 鬱陶しいな… Which looks like it's half gibberish to me...