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For all your Japanese translation needs

About Us

We specialize in localizing Japanese products—particularly video games—in order to bring them to English-speaking audiences all around the world. We strive to provide our clients with the highest quality translations to guarantee a smooth experience for all consumers alike.

Our Goals

It is our desire to help bridge Japanese and English cultures by allowing consumers to play games that they normally wouldn’t be able to in a way that flows fluidly to readers. We believe that every project is just as important as the last, sparing no less effort on any of them. But our highest priority is to give everyone an experience that they’ll enjoy and remember.

Our Policy

Our policy is to provide our clients with translations that are acceptable to overseas audiences while also taking great effort to ensure that their work does not lose its original identity. As such, we take meticulous care in our translations to preserve all the nuances and subtleties of the original.

Our Services

Localization Direction/Project Management
Translation (Japanese->English)
LQA/Quality Assurance

Projects

Root Double - Before Crime After Days- Xtend Edition

Dies irae: Interview With Kaziklu Bey

Raging Loop

Iwaihime

The Shell

Memory’s Dogma

Root Double - Before Crime After Days - Xtend Edition

The year is 2030. Business is as usual in the isolated research city of Rokumei–that is until several explosions suddenly go off in the nuclear research facility known as “LABO.” The city sends in “Sirius,” an elite rescue squad, to deal with the situation. But the situation only gets worse when LABO’s nuclear reactor melts down, sending the facility into lockdown–with members of Sirius and survivors still trapped inside. With lethal radiation leaking everywhere and not enough anti-radiation medication to last until lockdown lifts, the survivors make more and more grim discoveries. In their struggle for survival, in a deathtrap full of fire and radiation, they learn that doubt is their greatest enemy, and trust their greatest asset.

The story of Root Double features two different protagonists: Watase Kasasagi, a rescue squad captain who has lost his memories in the hours after the incident, and Natsuhiko Tenkawa, a student piecing together the clues in the six days before. The only key to survival lies in the player’s hands with the Senses Sympathy System (SSS). Unlike traditional visual novels, Root Double does not have clear cut “choices,” but rather, the game uses SSS to allow the player to manipulate the story based purely upon emotion. Your emotions projected upon the characters, particularly your trust in them, shape the progression of the story. Only with effective use of this system and completion of both protagonists’ stories can the player piece together the truth and hope to discover a way out of the facility.

Genre: Science-fiction/suspense/drama
Developer: Regista, Yeti
Publisher: Sekai Project
Platform(s): Steam, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Release date: 4/27/2016 (Steam), 3/13/2018 (PS Vita, USA), 7/8/2020 (PS Vita, EU), 11/26/2020 (Switch)

Localization: Translation, editing (all versions), quality checking (Steam)

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Dies irae: Interview With Kaziklu Bey

Dies irae’s 2017 World Emanation Project made waves thanks to the support of many fans and backers, and in the end, its colorful cast of allies and antagonists alike won the hearts of many a reader. Now, the villainous Wilhelm Ehrenburg takes front and center stage, his night of bloodstained roses painting a crimson tale of action and despair. The setting of this gripping story? The final months of World War II.

2006.

Wilhelm Ehrenburg, member of the infamous Longinus Dreizehn Orden and feared by soldiers the world over as the invincible "vampire of the battlefield," finds himself the subject of an interview with journalist Dinah Malloy at a bar in New York shortly prior to his journey to Japan. At her request, he begins to tell her the story of his past, speaking at length in particular about an episode in his life that took place back in 1944.

One day, while fighting in the twilight days of World War II, Wilhelm came across nun Claudia Jerusalem in the ruins of Warsaw. Mistaking his chance encounter with her as a rescue, Claudia, an albino just like Wilhelm, thanks him for saving her. Full off the bloodshed he had just wrought on his latest battlefield, Wilhelm resisted his initial instinct to devour her just like every other hapless soul who'd had the misfortune of crossing paths with him, and instead took her with him. Little did he know that this woman, whom he spared on a whim with no further intentions than to someday satiate his boundless thirst for blood, would change his life and the very nature of his existence forever...

Genre: Supernatural action/drama
Developer: light
Publisher: Views
Platform(s): Steam
Release date: 2/28/2019

Localization: Translation, editing, quality checking

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Immerse yourself in a thrilling psychological horror story taking place in the secluded Japanese village of Yasumizu. A heavy mist surrounds the place, preventing everyone from ever leaving. Ancient gods have come back to hunt the villagers down one by one. The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

A tribute to Japanese folklore

Haruaki Fusaishi is a young man freshly arrived to Yasumizu, a remote settlement in a mountainous region of Japan. He will become involved in an ominous local tradition known as the feast. Among the villagers lurks the werewolf, an entity who has sworn to take revenge on everyone.

A visual novel with a complex branching story

Keep track of all your choices thanks to a comprehensible flowchart. Rewind the story and select other actions to see different outcomes and learn about the characters’ motivation. A death may be rewarded with a new piece of information, a Key that will give you access to new paths and bring you closer to the identity of the killer.

An extensive new game plus

Clear the game to unlock the Revelation Mode and discover the story in a new light. You will see the inner thoughts of the characters and unlock new scenes that will give you more insight about their motivation.

An endless spiral of deaths

Haruaki Fusaishi will find himself stuck in inextricable loop from which he cannot escape. Conscious of his own fate, he will take advantage of all the knowledge acquired before his tragic deaths.

Raging Loop

Genre: Mystery/suspense/horror
Developer: KEMCO
Publisher: PQube
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Steam
Release date: 10/18/2019 (PS4, Switch, EU, 11/19/2019 (PS4, Switch, USA), 12/5/2019 (Steam)

Localization: Translation, editing (all versions), quality checking (Steam)

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Iwaihime

I envy you the privilege of dying. Curse your powerlessness, and leave us.

From the pen of hit writer Ryukishi07, the creator of When They Cry, comes a story on the theme of “curses.”

Characters brought to life with delicate skill by manga artist and illustrator Kazuharu Kina are set against atmospheric backgrounds from the fantastic mind of environment artist Mocha.

This supernatural horror visual novel—a tale of sin, retribution, and penance—is available now for the first time outside Japan.

This new international release includes scenario adjustments and CG improvements from the prior console re-releases, bringing to PC the writer’s preferred rendition of the tale.

Genre: Horror/drama
Developer: DMM Games
Publisher: Shiravune
Platform(s): Steam
Release date: 10/23/2020 (Steam)

Localization: Translation, editing, quality checking

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March 1956.

In a Tokyo that’s slowly returning to its former glory after losing the war ten years prior, Private Detective Reiji Tokisaka takes on the case of a girl he meets in Inokashira Park.

A wave of crimes has been crashing down on the city. Sergeant Uozumi, Tokisaka’s childhood friend and former coworker, asks him to investigate the murders.

Meanwhile, sitting off in a corner of the town of Hoya is Oba Girls’ Academy, the school Tokisaka’s younger sister goes to and where two students have recently disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The vice principal of this academy, Tokio Saeki, implores Tokisaka to find them.

Having taken on all three of these cases, and with Vice Principal Tokio’s approval, Tokisaka enters Oba Girls’ Academy as a teacher in order to dig up information about the students.

It’s there that he meets her again. Toko Kuchiki, the girl who asked him to look for her true self, with a voice as light and as clear as a bell and a casual way of speaking that doesn’t match it.

More and more victims turn up as the days pass, and the investigation he thought would be oh-so-easy stalls. For some reason, the number of disappearances and unidentified bodies don’t add up.

And the newest victim is—

The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy, and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

The Shell

Genre: Mystery/drama/thriller
Developer: Innocent Grey
Publisher: Shiravune
Platform(s): Steam
Release Date: 07/28/2023 (Steam, Part I)

Localization: Translation, editing, quality checking

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It is the year 2030 A.D. With the recent advancements in information technology and neuroscience in Japan, human memories can now be saved and recorded via a technology called “e-Memory.” Numerous state-operated facilities now exist that will allow one to communicate with the deceased: the “Connect Center.”

College student Kusuhara Hiroki struggles with suicidal impulses after the sudden passing of his close childhood friend, Mizunashi Sorano. With her memories to last only six days, Kusuhara’s friend Amamiya Kakeru suggests that they attempt to steal Sorano’s memories from the server in which they are stored. In the midst of this, the pair of friends are suddenly embroiled in an ongoing conspiracy revolving around a truth that must be kept secret at all costs.

Memory’s Dogma

Genre: Sci-fi/action/mystery
Creator: LizArts
Author: Wataru Takahashi
Publisher: Sekai Project
Platform: Light novel, currently only available to Kickstarter backers.
Release date: June 9, 2023 (Code:02)

Localization: Translation, translation editing

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