Hi! I'm Katelyn (she/her), but you can call me vg, vgperson, or vghime. I'm the popularly-elected Princess of Vocaloid and a prolific translator of Japanese.
This blog is primarily about translated content, but if there's no source and it doesn't look like it's a translation of something, I probably made it myself. (An "#original ___" tag is a guarantee that it's, well, original.)
Feel free to ask me questions via Tumblr. Or you can send an email to vghimmel at gmail dot com.
Donate to the Royal Treasury
(Not Really A Real Treasury)
Common Tags
#2ch - Translated threads from Japanese message board 2ch.
#original stories - Short stories I wrote. Also viewable by series here.
#original music - Music I made in PXtone. (My SoundCloud / Old Account)
Reference Posts
RM2K/2K3 Translation Tech Stuff
Wolf RPG Translation Tech Stuff
(For RPG Maker VX: Get an RGSS decrypter, get the editor, and just edit the project with that.)
Links
vgperson.com
Games (Translated/Mine)
Lyrics Translations
YouTube
Twitter
Not okay is okay! As is being pulled in like a magnet, having a leaky roof, being rejected for the position of Hatsune Miku, being seen naked, chugging rectangular bottles, and other such struggles.
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Do-Shichi-Go-Samba
I'm Not Okay
Roof-Leak Calisthenics
magnet -recall-
Famous Supporting Role
Like, Annoying...
Character T
Like I'm Being Seen Naked
Ghost Experience
Mark of Our Greatness
Life Reward
Rejected Diva
The One Who Threatens the Town
Dreaming Traffic Light
Wings Song
Late-Night Wandering Exhibit
The P in Pain
numb numb
Sekai-chan's Rectangular-Bottle-Chugging Rampage
Komugi's Ship
Invitation to the Dark World
Impossible to Detoxify
Ups-and-Downs Bon Voyage!
Our Struggle
Dreamer's Beat
Desperate!!
Polar Star
Collagenista!
I Can Too Drink Coffee
Matchmaking App-Princess
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
Maybe the real rookies were the songs we made along the way.
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Loving way
Same⇆Same (Round⇆Round)
I'm Talkin' To You
Don't End As a Puppy, Become a Kitty
Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
Puppet's Reality
This is Fiction.
In Broad Daylight
Night:Reversi
Nothing Idealism
Surprise!
I Alone Am the World-Honored Song
Adachi Rei
Let Me Out
Sapphire Blue
Eventide
Like a Shooting Star
Birds of a Feather
Re-Rookie
Studying!
Sunset Corridor
Adult-phobia
dying breath
Hop
Sing Again
It Ain't So Wrong, Right?!
The Day I Met a Ghost
Horsetail Grow
Decline
How to Walk In This World
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
Something's bugging me about this Madonna... Oh well, it's probably nothing.
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Revolve
Sweet Lovesick
Rain Step
Dytopissho! (Dystogether!)
Déraciné
Still, Life Goes On
Showtime Una!
Something's Wrong With Me
Yurail (Shaking)
Crossroad
Episode Two: Unfamiliar Feelings
Dadadadadaru
Candy
Burn Mark
Tokyo
Senyori Chabushi
Reflower Refrain
Finale
Ghostwrite
Polymadonna
Good-Night Conference
Baccano
Confession
Party Manor
In This Sky of Sorrow
Resonance of Colors
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
Select Kiss is a short multi-ending visual novel by nagainyu made in TyranoBuilder.
NOTE: This game is intended for ages 15 and up. (This rating is Japan-centric and could be more strict by other countries' standards.)
You've been hired for a part-time job picking two people to lock in The Room Where You Must Kiss to Leave.
Select from a cast of six colorful characters, see how they bounce off one another, and imagine how things might unfold from there.
Notably, all pairings are accounted for (not just between male and female characters), though they don't always go in a romantic direction. Each route is about 3 to 4 minutes long, for a total of 45 minutes to 1 hour to see all the endings.
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Petal Monologue
Mortar Cortar
Whimsical Trip
Sell a Friend
Comma Planet
Love Words V
Transparent Jukai Mystery
Selfish
The Sim
Horse → Uma → Cryptid?!
Melting
Memory-Making
Forward!
Indididididividual
Just Like Her
Nomad Worker
Loving 100 Million Years
How to Gather Light
Petals Elegy
Monologue
My Neighbor Machiko
Brainrot
Neo Venom
Ego Renegade Boy
Spiral Melodies
Dabomen (Full Version)
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
A world of dreams and connection awaits! Let's go!
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Goodbye Dusk, Come Again Me.
Trick Heart
Adlib
Changing
SHIAWASE FOR YOU!
Rainy Love
EGOUiST
Playing Immortal
Love-Fuse
Ra
Nightmare Dinner Time
Working Voice
Moonlight Heaven
Marionette Ballerina
I'm a Ghost, You See
Not Going Anywhere
Gemini
Sorry, Choco Latte
Though It's Good I Was Born And All
Weakling's March
Doppelganger
Spot Late
CONNECT:COMMUNE
Song of Departure
Happiness Penalty
Let's Boil It Over
Sort Jewel
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
My site has an RSS feed with basically everything I’ve done back to 2020, so I'll mainly be going over things from that.
In January, Kenshi Yonezu released Plazma for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX and BOW AND ARROW for Medalist. (Natalie.mu interview, Tsuruma Ikada interview)
I spent a good amount of the following months translating and then beta-testing Absented Age 2: Ghostbound, the sequel to terunon's Absented Age: Squarebound from several years ago, which ultimately came out in August. It's a good game! Of course, what's also a good game is Blue Prince, Void Stranger, Deltarune, Fantasy Life i, Donkey Kong Bananza, Squeakross, Silksong, uhhh…
Right, IRIS OUT in September! And of course, JANE DOE too! (Interview) Then in October, there was 1991 for the live-action 5 Centimeters Per Second. (Interview, interview about all three)
Then I made a cat for Ring Racers. Then later I got obsessed with Iyowa's Obstacles to Strolling (AKA "Everything") and eventually wrote singable lyrics for it. Which is, I guess my first proper Vocaloid translation in several years.
…Hmm. Doesn't look like all that much, does it? Absented Age was a big project, but it can only really account for about 2 months of time focused on it at most, with the bulk of the work being in January and February. I did work on a few smaller paid projects not mentioned here. I drew a number of pictures when I felt like it. And I posted Vocaloid Highlights every month like usual. But a lot of my time did simply go into playing a lot of games both new and old, with some taking a lot of time. Uh, including From Software's whole Soulsborne catalog. You can read about that here.
----
Two (non-age) absences to discuss: First, the paid version of Witch's Heart Wilardo's Conclusion with added content. As much as it pains me to say it… you can pretty much specifically blame Silksong for me not having done that yet. (But it's really good, so don't…) I hadn't been keeping up with what IZ was doing, and I had all but forgotten about them mentioning their plans for a paid version, so I only heard about it when it came out just days before Silksong, and I knew I wouldn't be able to squeeze it in before then. Even now that I'm free of Pharloom's grip, I've had a hard time working up the motivation to sit down and start; the unique situation of "having to manage a separate paid version and send IZ the files and figure out the details of all that" doesn't help. But I should get to it eventually… (both meanings of "should")
And of course, Your Turn To Die is not being finished in 2025 after all. Even as the official translator, I'm not much more privy to the state of its progress than the rest of you. While my struggles to put out much public translation work this year may invite pessimism, I can at least say that it's not "done and awaiting translation" or anything. So it's not me holding it up… uh, unless there's been some kind of horrible miscommunication.
While it's hard to know what future games might come out and consume all my time again, at least at the moment, I feel like I might finally be able to start focusing on other work next year. Which is seeming more likely to be my original games than free translations, because man I want at least one of these to be a real released thing. Like, people don't even know I have a nearly-complete soundtrack for… or a really catchy theme for… or the story themes of… man, you don't even know…
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Birthdays
Sugar
Continue the Journey!
Miss Osmanthus
Rosette
Diagram
Secret Attempt
Future Disappearance Diary
I Am Here
On the Length of a Century
Tarantula
Had An Encounter!
Love & P-Something
Smell The Rat
Human
Cyan Blue
Diva!!
dɑ'ːrliŋ
Afraid
Transparent Palette
Baumkuchen End Credits
Pencil Box
Fascinator
Today Was the Worst Too (^_-)-☆
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
This month had the Colorless Nameless Fest III, a recurring NicoNico event in which people submit songs anonymously with text-only videos, with the option to have their identity revealed afterward. Authors will often post their songs with regular videos later. I've included names for authors that were revealed, but a few remain anonymous.
There were 4676 songs submitted to this one, all made public at once. So there are more highlights than usual this month, and likely many good songs still buried. You can browse through all the submissions here.
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Word-User
Roadside Grass
Touching Scars
Unclear Mocha (PV)
Despair Dance
Flower at the Far Ends
Adore Like a Butterfly, Love Like a Bee
SnapShot!
I Like Your Misanthrope Self! (demo ver.) (PV)
Obstacles to Strolling
It Was Absolute!!!!
Disinterest
Stuckmoth
Dream Mode
Ah-Ha-Ha
MIRROR
Violinina
Blue Lagoon
We Who Got Locked in a Supermarket
Dear Mourning Diary
Time Is Mine
Trendy Angelina
Cochirina
Namu Ami I-Love-You
Fake Marriage
Not Fun
Gray Finder
Stark White
Manure
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
Love may be weak to lots of other elements, but at least you get STAB on Love attacks.
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
Pentatonic
Artifact
I Like You, Me
Love Attribute
Una-tte! Fantastic!
Tribute
To a Life of Giving, I'm Sorry
Not Not Good!
Last Veranda
LLiee
Midnight Rose
Whimsical Wandervogel
Jack Daniel
Graffiti
Imagine Jump
Can't
Star
Seaside Phone Booth
Artefact
At the Bar
I Maker!
Alarm Bell, Sea
Apophenia
Gunshot Vengeance
Danrou Gumo (Male-Spider)
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
A Kenshi Yonezu interview with WIRED about IRIS OUT, JANE DOE, and 1991, contact with things outside yourself, shared aspects with Hikaru Utada, and the unknowable ghosts within everyone.
Are you there? It's me, your best friend... (suddenly changing into her final boss form) H A T S U N E M I K U
Highlights Archive
========== Stand-Outs ==========
We Are Pico-Pico Hammers!!!!
Monitoring (Best Friend Remix)
The Time is 10 PM
Can't Get Motivated Song
Summer's End
Jet Black
Flower-Burial Parhelion
Hallucination
Treasure Garden
Positopian
As For You
Goodbye Heaven, Come Again Hell
Green is a Nutrient
Electric Message
Goodbye Bad Boy
Butterflying
Life is a Comedy
Show Me Your Mistake-Ridden Self
fallen
Dream Kiss
Unnecessary
Me Composition
Producing NULL
(For many more songs that are still Worth Your Time, view all this month's highlights on my site!)
