Translators! Stumped on SFXs? Then use this site!

I've used this place for a while for sfx. Though I didn't know they moved to a new url :O

Great site, thank you!!!!!11 XD

Nice site.

A certain katakana or hiragana can have a different sound depending on what the whole sfx is supposed to be. Like "DoDo---" can be lightning, and "Dokun" a heartbeat, but the "do" in each would sound significantly different when you think about what it should sound like. And then there's whole sfx that overlap and sound different, like "Go---" can be something sinking, or something burning. Of course you usually tell from context, but if not, the way it's drawn can help, unless the mangaka draws sfx extremely simply.

So eventually, that site'll start getting a decent amount of sfx with 2+ (very different) meanings, and maybe pictures could help with that. Or another column on how the different versions of the sfx are usually drawn/stylized.

I've used this for a long time already~

http://www.nihongoresources.com/dictionaries/onomatopoeia.html
is another database.

There will occasionally be sound effects just "made up" by the author, so it may be foolish to expect either of these to become complete, but I hope there will eventually be a resource complete enough to catch the vast majority of sound effects that have wider usage.

The following links have some sound effects that are unaccounted for (Japanese only)
http://dbms.kokken.go.jp/nknet/Onomatope/category.html
pages 5 to 9 of http://www.wfu.edu/eal/SEATJ2009/SEATJ09%20Osuka.pdf

thank you! this can be really helpfull ^^

You have no idea how grateful I am right now.

This site has a big list on PDF: http://kyoh.monkey-pirate.com/sfx/sfx2.htm

Oh-my-god. Thanks a lot! That's really helpful!

I never thought this kind of website is available. Thanks!!!

Great find! Sometimes I'd spend more time trying to figure out sfx than actually translating text. This is a godsend.

It's alive again! woosh!

Same as some other people, I didn't knew they changed the URL of the site. I've been using it for a while too.

@hyperworm: I didn't know about those two sites, thank you!

vai ser bom para traduçao xD

Great! Thank you very much!

great! it help me so much XD

Nice site, needs a way to contribute though! I already have lots of suggestions for the webmaster XD

O_O
wow, it's really a nice site! Thanks!

Thanks!!