Japanese video games Archives - J-En Translations

Translation Chat 19 – Wesley O’Donnell chats about Paper Mario and the Origami King

Wesley O’Donnell is a freelance Japanese to English translator living in Japan. He’s worked on a variety of manga and light novels with penchant towards fantasy and comedy. Wesley chats about the amazing characterization and comedy in the English

Anthropology and Localising Video Games

When people ask me what my degree was their response to “Social Anthropology” is normally “Oohhh… What’s that?”. To which I normally reply “Social anthropology is the study of different cultures.” Yet social anthropology (or cultural anthropology in the US)