Translation Commission Info
Hi, I’m a half-Japanese heritage speaker who has lived in Japan all my life doing translation commissions for text. It can range from prose to twitter posts to even manga pages and correspondence. Most things, really.
Either E-mail me at [email protected] or message me on tumblr or twitter, whichever you can reliably respond in. Any will work for me.
Japanese to English
It is 3 US cents per character (very low rate), meaning that it will be 15 US dollars at 500 characters.
Examples can be found in my Lisa Translates Stuff tag.
As for estimates, song lyrics should not cost more than 10 dollars usually. Manga pages vary depending on how wordy they are. I’ve had one doujin that was 1433 characters ($42.99, 31 pages, SFW). Another 1792 characters ($53.76, 32 pages, SFW). I would imagine that NSFW doujins would not be as wordy.
English to Japanese
It is 10 US cents per word.
English to Japanese commissions will be more limited. No creative writing. Nothing extremely formal (news articles, essays, etc.)
I can do correspondences, even business correspondences (art commissions, networking, etc), but only on the client side for now.
While in correspondence, I will merely say the gist of what the Japanese speaker is saying, so there will be no Japanese to English translation costs.
Payment
I will send a quote after I do a character/word count. Character counts will take time if I have to transcribe the text, and I will charge a 5% fee for transcription. That’s 5% of the quote I come up with.
I accept payment through PayPal. PayPal accepts VISA, Master Card, American Express, and Discover cards. I will send an invoice to your e-mail through PayPal once I finish proofreading the translation. If you think some part of the translation is not up to snuff, I will work with you to fix it to your liking at no additional cost.
Note: I refuse to translate lolicon/shotacon or works that are excessively hateful and reserve the right to refuse to translate those type of works. I will translate most other things including NSFW (including fetish and non-con) and LGBT content so long as they are legible.
(I would appreciate it if you gave this a reblog.)
