For Great Justice

Hi, you might remember me from works such as NTRPG and Rhode's Fortress. I'm an amateur H-game translator who just started this year (2015), but I'm proud that I have quite a few games completed already. You can find all my translations here.

I've had a few people suggest I put up a Patreon page, so here it is. My dream is to continue translating as many games as I can. If I somehow got lots of support, I'd love to quit my day job and work translating games full time! In the meantime I'll just be grinding out my current projects little by little in my free time.

Some Q&A:
How good is your Japanese?

I've studied Japanese for a few years in university, but have a lifetime of watching anime and reading manga, which surprisingly helps. My Japanese is just at a conversational level, but thanks to various tools I'm able to understand kanji and phrases that I wouldn't know otherwise. There's nothing more gross to me than mistranslations or "rewrites" so I always do my best to make sure everything is as accurate as can be. If translating ever becomes more than a hobby, I'd be very interested in studying Japanese even more.

How good is your English?

Just as good as the next person's, but it feels like there's a lot of games with poorly written or translated English. I feel like the writing in H-games actually require a lot of skill and delicacy to not turn people off. Machine translations and broken English are big turn offs for me, I try to make my translations as literal yet fluid as possible. I guess you guys will have to be the judge of whether or not I've been successful.  D:

Why do you like translating games?

I like playing H-games, but not in Japanese, not with machine translations. I used to wait week after week for new English translations to be done, but they were very few and far between. That's why I tried translating the games I wanted to play myself, and had a decent amount of success. It's always fun, challenging, and rewarding to finally finish a project, but the best part about translating games into English is that I get to play them, too!

Why so many NTR games?

I've gotten both praise and criticism for translating NTR games. Personally I enjoy the genre simply because usually it emphasizes how the women enjoy having sex. That's the only reason. For the record, I don't only translate NTR games.

What will you translate next?

I'm currently working on Ariadne, but usually I just pick up games that I want to play myself. I suppose if I get patrons, they could vote on what game I will work on next. I don't know what other rewards I could give my patrons, since all my work is already distributed for free. Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

Why should I support you?
I want to translate lots of H-games. I find it enjoyable and rewarding, but it's hard to do while I work 50+ hours a week. Right now I sacrifice sleep just to get a few extra lines of translation done, so it's a hard life. In other words, I have the motivation but not enough time or energy. My dream would be to have enough support so that one day I can just translate games full time without being fatigued from other work. Then I could finish projects 10x faster, people wouldn't have to wait months/years for their favorite games to get translated, and I'd be able to tackle longer or newer RPGs that I usually try to avoid. Also if this Patreon is successful, it might even motivate more talented people to translate games, too. Then we could all enjoy more H-games in English!  :)

Is this just a money scheme?

I'm not translating for the money; I already do it for free and will continue to do so. You don't need to donate, but it'd be nice to know if anyone out there actually appreciates or wants to support my work. I get a lot of personal enjoyment and satisfaction from translating games, but other than that there's no real reward. A few people may post their thanks after each release, but beyond that I don't even know if anyone even enjoys my work. Seeing some tangible support might help me justify all the time and effort I put into these games so I don't feel like I'm wasting my life... :(