![]() ![]() However, now I believe the English to be actually comprehensible. ![]() I ended up also changing the rest of the text to whatever I, as a native US English speaker, subjectively think might sound better, taking into account the original translation, any new machine translation(s), and what I knew about the context.īut I'm not a big creative writer, so I think it still might be drier and close r to literal Japanese compared to most previous official localizations: lines with simple phrases or sounds in Japanese like eh or naruhodo are replaced with simple phrases or sounds in English, rather something potentially more expressive, meaningful, or entertaining. Some of the more drastic changes in meaning have been things taken almost literally from these online translators. It seems that knowledge of the context is something that the original English writers were missing for much of the dialogue. Since I can read zero Japanese, I started out by using Google Translate and Linguee for help on trying to gauge what the more confusing parts were even trying to say, and editing the rest of the English myself.īut in addition to some parts simply not making any sense, I later noticed others had made some modicum of sense, but the online translators (especially after discovering DeepL, which lets you manually fiddle with alternative translations) made much more sense than the original. Initially I only wanted to only fix various inconsistencies, nonsensical lines, and the awkward direct-from-Japanese punctuation and sentence structure. I wasn't happy with the English in the existing Nayuta no Kiseki fantranslation, so I used their publicly available tools to make my own edit. There shouldn't be any major spoilers if you're interested in avoiding them, but they might reveal some smaller details. ![]() These are mostly one-liners that were particularly non-sensical. Nayuta no Kiseki / Nayuta: Endless Trails English Translation Edit ![]()
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