dannyboo Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Hi everybody I'm dannyboo and I recently found this forum while I was looking for a good page to start my translation (career?). That's only in the future though Around one year ago my mother met someone during the time when she was translating live on seminars (eng - ger). It turned out that the other Person translating was a Woman who had lived in Japan for some years and is now an independant teacher who teaches japanese. I am really glad that I had stated my interest in japanese language and culture to my parents a few weeks before that, otherwise we would've maybe never seen this oppertunity. Right now I've been studying/learning Japanese for one year and soon I'll probably be able to pass the N5 levels (JLPT). I really hope that I can become a professional translator for japanese games (be they visual novels or other kinds) and be paid for what I love and enjoy. But as I said, I haven't quite reached the N5 level yet so I'm probably getting a bit ahead of myself but it is really something I would love to do and I'm looking forward to being part of this community even though I'm more the type to observe conversations on forums rather than contributing to them. I became interested in Anime when I was a little kid (I thank god that I was a kid during the times when they still played shounen anime on tv haha). My absolute favorites where of course Dragon Ball Z and it's predecessor Dragon Ball but I didn't quite enjoy GT. My second favorite was Shaman King and I also enjoyed watching Pokemon (but I didn't like the games lol) and Naruto was nice, too. Besides that I was totally entranced by Detective Conan and I would watch it whenever I could no matter how often I had seen that episode already Some years later I was re-introduced to Anime by a friend of mine (he showed me the first few epiosdes of Bleach) and from that point on I became more and more addicted to Anime. I'm the type that likes to rerererererererererewatch the Animes that he loves rather than watch new ones so there aren't like 500 of my favorites I could list now I still want to list some that i really enjoyed though: Hangyaku no Lelouch R1 & R2 - When I watched that one for the first time I was so emotionally screwed at the end (that was during the hard times of puberty where you're emotionally screwed to begin with) Tasogare Otome x Amnesia - That may or may not be a great piece of work depending on different people's opinions but for me it was a great experience (probably because it was the first Anime of that genre and after that I got more used to it?) Shaman King - Kid that runs around with 20kg weights on every ankle and of course defeats every guy that opposes him until he finally defeats the bad guy at the end and becomes the superhero for the next 500 years. All the while being dominated by his fiance whom he promised to marry her if he became shaman king. I enjoyed it Detective Conan - who solves every case no matter how illogical it seems and often it seems more like a who-can-come-up-with-the-craziest-way-to-kill-somebody-but-still-make-it-seem-logical contest Dragon Ball Z - I was glued to the screen for hours and hours just to see him shout AAAAAAAA for 10 more minutes. Clannad - because why. Great story and a happy ending (although I don't mind bad ending as long as they're well written. Zetsuen no Tempest - A recent one for me which leans on to Shakespeares 'The Tempest' and all those unexpected plot twists really keeps it interesting and exciting. But the most important thing for me was that I could identify with some of the characters' personal aspects and that made me enjoy it all the more Steins;Gate - Not much to say here Everyone who knows it loves it and if somebody doesn't like it I can't blame them. You may or may not philosophize why this sentence doesn't make sense! I'm drawing out my introduction but I think there's still something I haven't actually mentioned - VNs. At some point of my Anime filled life I realized that Animes don't always start as Animes (or more like, at this point I can't name one that does) because they all seem to be adapted from a light novel, manga or visual novel before they make their ways into our hearts. So at that time I thought I might try that kind of 'game' out. Now there are two obvious things I really want to state: First - How awe-inspiring the collaboration between art and storystelling can be Second - How frickin' long it takes to read through all that mind blowing story I mean, I may have spent more than 500 hours playing Visual Novels already even though I haven't played that many (I must admit though that quite a few had gameplay in them - like Kamidori - that really keeps you playing for more than just a long while). Right now I'm kind of staying on hold with Grizaya no Kajitsu on the Amane route and others I read are Fate/Stay Night and Dracu-Riot, I also started with Rewrite but right now I'm 'reading' several VNs without making any progress because there are always so many great ones that I'm already looking at a new one before finishing the last. Makes me feel lost. Well, however, I want to be a translator in the future and I hope that I can speed up that progress by doing finding some small projects here on Fuwanovel in the next few years (I don't really think that I am ready for a project yet, so I'll stay put for a few months till a year until I'm confident enough ) That's enough from me and I believe this is a long introduction, I hope those of you who read all of it don't feel like they wasted their time! Feel free to send me messages or something if you want to stay in contact with me. I'm excited to see what the future brings Btw: I'm a guy! Don't get distracted by my profile Kurisu-Chan, Tenkuru, Gibberish and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurisu-Chan Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Welcome, bienvenue and gutentag german friend to FuwaMotherLand, wow quite a long introduction post, good point, definitively not wasted my time, i wish you good luck becoming translator, as i can see, you too love learning different languages. Btw: I'm a guy! Don't get distracted by my profile You know you can be a guy and have feelings, all guys aren't muscle-pack super humans, there is nothing wrong with it, dannyboo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Welcome on the forums ! I feel bad not saying much after such a complete introduction. I must say that I liekd the shaman king anime too. Even though it doesn't really follow the manga, at elast the ending was acceptable . Anyway, Enjoy your stay And ready Clannad if you haven't ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboo Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Welcome on the forums ! I feel bad not saying much after such a complete introduction. I must say that I liekd the shaman king anime too. Even though it doesn't really follow the manga, at elast the ending was acceptable . Anyway, Enjoy your stay And ready Clannad if you haven't ! Don't worry, I can't expect everyone to write a novel in respone to a novel I'll definitely add Clannad as soon as I can find some disk space haha! I've been shifting Animes and Games around to find some space and I can't afford a new external hard drive right now Welcome, bienvenue and gutentag german friend to FuwaMotherLand, wow quite a long introduction post, good point, definitively not wasted my time, i wish you good luck becoming translator, as i can see, you too love learning different languages. Thanks! I'll keep up my work and do my best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ember Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Welcome to Fuwa! Hope you have fun~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcosis Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Welcome. Hope you'll enjoy your stay around here. I really hope that I can become a professional translator for japanese games (be they visual novels or other kinds) and be paid for what I love and enjoy.Sorry to burst your bubble, but TL'ing is far from enjoyable; it's an addiction, where you sacrifice everything so a bunch of perverts may read their favourite chinese porn games, while you get nothing in return.This world is low on JP translators, therefore I expect you're going to be abused preety soon anyway. Enjoy~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Sorry to burst your bubble, but TL'ing is far from enjoyable; it's an addiction, where you sacrifice everything so a bunch of perverts may read their favourite chinese porn games, while you get nothing in return. This world is low on JP translators, therefore I expect you're going to be abused preety soon anyway. Enjoy~ Isn't the world full of rainbows and teddy bears ? My expectations .... all gone ! I guess you have your own way of saying it's not an easy task. But yes, I agree. Becoming pro translator is far from easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboo Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Thanks for your support I guess I didn't expect it to be easy from the beginning anyway. But it's far more endurable when I'm able to enjoy the process Besides, I think there's more to it than my skills and the expectations of the perverted guys who want their games translated.. In the end it's also for relationships with people who share the same interests and are fun to work with. And I guess I'll also have to endure the kind of people that are not fun to work with but still neccessary But when you want to do this kind of work you're really on your own if you can't find people on the internet that you can share your work with. I don't know anybody of my age who is interested in learning japanese at all so real life is not an option haha Kurisu-Chan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom909 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Hi, I'm always up for talking about the Japanese language and/or translation and/or anime. If you want to chat, get on our related TS sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andulir Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome i hope we can get along well Btw nice introduction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosebleed Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to fuwa. I hope you enjoy your time here. Nice introduction by the way. Btw: I'm a guy! Don't get distracted by my profile Don't worry, I treat everyone as if they were genderless~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Meogii Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 You are so lucky to be taught japanese. Welcome to the forums man and enjoy your stay. I got distracted by your profile picture XD No matter though. Girl or guy at fuwa equality is a strong factor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidShu Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to Fuwa! Remember to stay chill ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay! Have a moe: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkshine Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to fuwanovel. Hope you find the forums to your liking and glad to have ya with us. Be seeing you around and here's a moe. Also KUDOS on your nice long intro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monmon Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Osu!Osu welcome n have fun enjoy a pun Had some Mushrooms this morning... Breakfast of Champignons Nice intro and hooray for Shaman king!!! i`ll give u a nice gif for ya finally...is ur name a parody of Danny choo??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shcboomer Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to the forums. Also the N5 exam eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenkuru Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to Fuwa! Very interesting introduction, I enjoyed reading it. dannyboo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecterZ Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Well, however, I want to be a translator in the future and I hope that I can speed up that progress by doing finding some small projects here on Fuwanovel in the next few years (I don't really think that I am ready for a project yet, so I'll stay put for a few months till a year until I'm confident enough ) Me too I'm studying both Japanese and English enough to play a lot of VN without problem, but I'm not confident enough to join translation project. Well, welcome to Fuwa, the (not so) safe heaven for Anime and VN lover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome to the party! That intro was awesome so... Heres another when life gives you lemons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboo Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 Thanks everybody for being so nice it's really great to know there are so many helpful spirits on here finally...is ur name a parody of Danny choo??? Quite a few people asked me that question already since it's really similar but I must admit that I didn't know him until someone asked me the exact same thing. I've been using Dannyboo as a nickname everywhere on the internet for 8 years now so still before I even knew what Anime was Welcome to the forums. Also the N5 exam eh? Thanks and yep, that's it. Although I'm taking it a bit easy right now because of final exams at my school. Are you doing the N5 exam anytime soon? Welcome to the party! That intro was awesome so... Heres another when life gives you lemons Thanks for the lemon! I'll use it wisely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimDito Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 *whisper* We are all guys. Hello, danny. Welcome to fuwanovel Really liked that introduction, I'm sure we can all feel your passion for the otaku culture. I wish you good luck in the career you're trying to achieve and we'll certainly have your back! ここで楽しんでください。まったね～ dannyboo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolat Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome among us, and enjoy your stay into the forums! Have a dragon: dannyboo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboo Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome among us, and enjoy your stay into the forums! Have a dragon: GIVE ME THAT CAKE!! take this in return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolat Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 GIVE ME THAT CAKE!! take this in return Erm.. Thanks, what is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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