Archive for December 22nd, 2009

End of the Season

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

あっちょんぶりけ! (Atcheonbourique!)

It’s end of the year.  It’s the end of another anime season.  We completed another series with a decent success.  But that’s not difficult to do.  The note-worthy event of the day is my translation #783.  I just finished translation of Black Jack episode 61.  What’s more, I only translated episode 58 only two days ago – well after the release of 57.  And 58 is progressing so well that it’ll probably be released by Christmas.  The whole team is pumped right now to finish the series this year.  We have nine days left.  Isn’t that exciting?

Actually, the timing really doesn’t matter to me.  It just feels so good to have it done.  It took us 3 and a half years to release 63 episodes.  That’s less than 20 episodes per year.  It was a slow going project.  Sure, we took some detours – 17 episodes of Black Jack 21, a movie, and 13 episodes of RAY (just because BJ made cameo appearances in 2 episodes)… And this project always got put in the back burner of the whole team.  There were painful moments.

But it’s done.

I’m ready for a vacation.

…only after I see those episodes released!

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Translation #777

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about my translation #750.  Then I meant to make a post the day I did my 777th.  I missed that mark a while ago…  I just realized I finished my 782nd today.  Anyway.

What I just found is this – the blog entry from the day I completed my 300th translation way back in March of 2005.  I sure have been at this for a long time.  And it sure takes long time to translate 500 episodes of stuff.

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