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[kazarinn]

As of today, all 27 manga chapters and 43 episodes of Saint Tail have been fully retranslated from scratch! Please click here to check it out!

This project started at around the beginning of July, so I have to admit that it's quite the feeling to have finally finished all of the translation work! To be honest, I was a bit self-conscious about how the unusual release schedule and the abnormally extensive documentation would be received, but we've gotten quite a few supportive comments, so thank you so much!

(Look, it's just really hard to make a claim like "almost every page of the manga has wordplay or some kind of metaphor, meaning previous English translations lost almost a whole half of the plot and made the entire ending and epilogue come off as saying the opposite of what they're actually supposed to" unless you have sufficient evidence to make a case for it...)

It may not be exaggeration to say that this has probably been the most challenging translation I've ever tackled to date, even though the deceptively simple plot doesn't make it come off as that kind of series at first glance, so I hope all of the effort that the rest of the team and I put into it can come through and that people can enjoy it as much as possible.

In regards to future plans: I want to take a look at some more of Tachikawa's works (I made a post about this earlier, but none of her other work has been treated well in translation), as well as perhaps some other magical girl series that need translation love. But I can't make any explicit promises, especially since I'd have to juggle it with a huge backlog of other stuff...and also, I need a break after almost six months straight of this 😅 I'm off to enjoy the rest of the winter holiday, and I hope you all do too. If you do decide to check out the series with the new translation in the meantime, I'd definitely be really happy if you posted reactions 😊

[kazarinn]

Hi this is more of a private message for you rather than an ask, but I don't have any other means of contact sadly. I've seen that you previously have worked on translating some Kamen Rider novels in the past and I'd like to offer to you if you would like scans of the Kamen Rider Zangetsu Novel to have a go with that I've done myself? This isn't me requesting it btw, I'm just offering them incase it interests you to either just read or translate them. No probs if not. lmk what you want. Thanks

Hi, thank you for contacting me! I actually happen to have the novel already, but I appreciate it!

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I missed getting the discotek saint tail release and was pretty bummed but now that I’ve seen this page it seems like the subs would be pretty inaccurate anyways and I feel way less sad that I missed it! I’m excited to start relearning saint tail through everyone’s hard efforts here! Thank you!!!!

Thank you for checking it out! We hope you enjoy it!

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There were a number of frames in Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING with text that may be of interest to fans, so I've taken the liberty of

There were a number of frames in Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING with text that may be of interest to fans, so I’ve taken the liberty of translating them.

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An interview with director Tomohisa Taguchi, assistant director Yoshifumi Sasahara, and supervisor Hiromi Seki on Digimon Adventure LAST EVO

An interview with director Tomohisa Taguchi, assistant director Yoshifumi Sasahara, and supervisor Hiromi Seki on Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna, included in the Blu-ray deluxe edition booklet, released on May 29, 2024.

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(Original title: "Minami Takayama, Marina Inoue, an All-Star Cast, Together for the First Time in 15 Years! Digimon Expo ‘25 Digimon Xros Wa

(Original title: “Minami Takayama, Marina Inoue, an All-Star Cast, Together for the First Time in 15 Years! Digimon Expo ‘25 Digimon Xros Wars Stage Official Report”)

A translation of the press release provided by Toei Animation’s Digimon Project regarding the Digimon Xros Wars stage greeting and talk show held at Digimon Expo 2025, held at the Prism Hall at Tokyo Dome City on September 20, 2025. The press release was released two days later (September 22) and featured selected excerpts of the talk show with the following Digimon Xros Wars voice actors:

Minami Takayama (Taiki Kudou)

Chika Sakamoto (Shoutmon)

Marina Inoue (Tagiru Akashi)

Kumiko Watanabe (Gumdramon)

Ryouko Shiraishi (Akari Hinomoto, Mervamon)

Takeshi Kusao (Kiriha Aonuma, MetalGreymon, the Clock Shop Old Man, Ballistamon)

Takahiro Sakurai (Dorulumon)

Kanae Oki (Yuu Amano)

Masami Kikuchi (Damemon)

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A translated transcript of the Digimon Adventure 02 stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors from the original TV

A translated transcript of the Digimon Adventure 02 stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors from the original TV anime series at Digimon Expo 2025, at the Prism Hall in Tokyo Dome City on September 21, 2025.

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A translated transcript of the Digimon Xros Wars stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors at Digimon Expo 2025, a

A translated transcript of the Digimon Xros Wars stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors at Digimon Expo 2025, at the Prism Hall in Tokyo Dome City on September 20, 2025.

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Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING's theatrical screening had a corresponding informational pamphlet sold on-site, which contained informati

Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING‘s theatrical screening had a corresponding informational pamphlet sold on-site, which contained informational and art assets and a large number of cast and staff interviews.

(Supervisor Hiromi Seki | Fukujuurou Katayama and Junko Noda | Other voice actor messages | Megumi Ogata and Rie Kugimiya | Directors Tomohisa Taguchi and Yoshifumi Sasahara | Key animation director and storyboarder Shinichiro Ueda | BGM composer Harumi Fuuki | Art director Ayu Kiyoki and color designer Saori Gouda | Chief animation director Seiji Tatsukawa | Character designers Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru and Kenji Watanabe | Music staff Ayumi Miyazaki, AiM, and Shintarou Matsui)

[kazarinn]

Well, it looks like MangaDex received a bunch of C&Ds, which means our releases (Saint Tail and Dream Eater Guide) went down with it. Fortunately, we still have our website, but I'll be looking into other distribution methods in the meantime.

(But seriously, Kodansha, it'd be great if you could actually license the titles you took down!)

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Thank you sooooo much translating dream eater guide! Megumi tachikawa is my favorite author and artist! Would love to see more of her works in English. Hot typhoon and I'm collecting her other works in Japanese too.

Thank you for the support! I've had a lot of fun translating Tachikawa's works; she has a way with prose that makes it challenging (in a good way) and fun to translate.

I'm definitely still looking at translating more of her work, since it's super frustrating seeing the gap between how good her prose is and how badly her work has been treated (and thus perceived) in English. 💦 Hot Typhoon is on my radar as well, partially because it's short and partially because it's currently the only one of her published serials to have not been translated at all, but it's also a toss-up between that and Cyber Idol Mink, for which the Tokyopop translation is bad enough that you could argue it's in an even worse situation. If only I had more free time in the world...

But in any case, once again, thank you for reading! If/when we do get to the others, please do check them out 🙏

[kazarinn]

Just to be clear:

For the DigiFes 2023 skits in particular, I had multiple people barking at me and demanding "when" I would finish translating them, presumably assuming that I was automatically obligated to translate them just because I've translated other Digimon-related stuff.

Please remember that I do this as a hobby, not as a labor service. I have no problem with people bringing things to my attention with things like "you might be interested in this" or even asking me lightly if there's any chance I'll work on something. But every time someone yells at me to translate for them as if they're entitled to it, that gives me another reason to not do it. I don't want people to get the idea that I'll do anything if you just yell at me hard enough, both for my own sake and for the sake of other translators who often get this kind of harassment.

I translated the DigiFes skits this time because I personally wanted to do it anyway, and it just so happened that there were other reasons I wasn't able to finish it until now (one major one being that I wanted to wait for the script to be released first). But I can't guarantee that the same will apply to every Digimon-related thing in the future. Please don't be the one to ruin it for everyone else.

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A translation of the Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING tie-in stage readings "The Scramble for Fireworks Show Tickets!" (花火大会チケット大争奪戦！) and

A translation of the Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING tie-in stage readings “The Scramble for Fireworks Show Tickets!” (花火大会チケット大争奪戦！) and “All Hands on Deck! The Great Investigation” (全員集合！夜の大走査線), read at the DigiFes 2023 afternoon and evening shows at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel on July 30, 2023.

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Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!/Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals

Not actually a picture from this release (but it was tempting) Script (Fonts): MEGA | Google Drive [Edit 11/23/2024] Links to the footage ha

As promised, in light of the new official release of Hurricane Touchdown having English subs, we've taken down the links that had video footage.

We are still keeping our version of the scripts up for the sake of preservation in case anyone wants to use it for any reason (such as quick reference), so head on over to the blog if you want to pick it up. (You can load it with your video by putting it in the same folder as your video and renaming the file name to match; most video players will automatically detect it.) Also, since the script file is technically just a text file, you can use any text editor you like to look through it if you just want to look at the text.

We've also included an alternate version of the file that can be used with the new Discotek release, in case you want to use it with that too (for whatever reason).

Thank you to everyone who supported the previous release up until now 🙇

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Digimon Adventure 02 THE BEGINNING

Our reaction to seeing the way the official subtitles were handled in a nutshell. Torrent | DDLScript (Fonts): MEGA | Google Drive Here’s so

(Link leads to download links, script file, and translation notes)

Here’s some context for why we did this: the official English subtitles for this movie are dubtitles, or in other words, the English dub script with names and terms swapped out and pasted on as subtitles. There are a few lines changed here and there, but almost all of the lines are a dub transcript in practice. Dubs are a very different form of adaptation that have their own unique requirements, so doing something like this is really bad translation praxis, and to be honest, it’s disappointing to see yet another major piece of Digimon media be stuck with subpar translation standards, again.

Since I figured that it would be helpful to have a more precisely done translation out there, if at least for reference, I went ahead and retranslated the entire thing from scratch.

As far as casual viewing goes, I’ll fully admit that there are a lot of places where the official version is punchier and has better flow than mine, since they had license to adapt things more freely than a fan translator like me would. But once you go beyond that, the official subs have the following issues:

Since they’re actually dubtitles, there is a substantial mismatch between what’s written in the subtitles and what’s actually being said in Japanese to an extent far beyond what should be acceptable for subtitling. As I said earlier, I personally believe they’re still decent enough for casual viewing purposes, but there are enough differences in details and nuance that would matter for people who want to analyze the movie more thoroughly.

The official translation has a number of issues that affect consistency with Adventure series themes, timeline, and lore in places where there were no such issues in the original Japanese dialogue. (This is a problem that also affected LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna‘s official translation.) This is something that can be a huge deal for a lot of Digimon fans, so while it’s not something that would have led to this decision by itself, it was a huge factor.

Originally, I was only planning to release a script file to be used with Blu-ray footage, but it seems that all of the official English subbed/dubbed releases have animation errors that were corrected only in the Japanese Blu-ray, so I went ahead and put together my own encode based on the latter. I’ll take the encode down if they somehow decide to put out an updated release that fixes all of these problems, but…seriously? In 2024? And after the disaster that was LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna‘s official release, too? Come on.

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I'm really intreasted in reading the Digimon Novels from that competition a couple of months back. But was sad to find out that they never translated to english.

Will you one day work on those too? Cause a lot of them sound like they would be a fun read.

Sadly, I don't think it's likely I'll ever be able to get around to them. As interesting as the novels are, some of them are really long -- we're talking more than 70 or 80 pages -- and with the limited free time I have, I'd rather use it on things that have higher urgency (things with high franchise lore impact, etc.). I won't say 100% no because I don't like to definitively shut down any possibilities, but I also don't want people to get their hopes up 💦 Sorry!

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Download: MEGA | Google Drive Project page and more information

Naoki Takaya loves anything to do with space and fossils, which get him so excited that he won’t stop talking passionately about them. Others around him consider him to be an oddball and spread rumors that he’s actually an alien, something that troubles his classmate Noriko Morimura…because she’s got a crush on him and is afraid he’ll go back to his home planet before she can even talk to him! And on top of that, she knows so little about space or fossils that she doesn’t even know how to approach him in the first place! But fortunately, Marin and Bakuo are here with a mysterious rock that can help her start a conversation…that is, if she can make use of it on her own.

And that’s the final chapter of Dream Eater Guide! This took a lot longer than I’d hoped, especially since I had a major schedule upheaval in the middle and ended up with a lot less free time, but we do hope you enjoyed it.

I’m going to have to reconsider how I’m going to go about it with my much tighter schedule, so I can’t provide any updates on future plans just yet. But I do plan on continuing to translate manga one way or another, so I’ll try and keep regular updates going in some form (even if it takes a month between every release at this point).