This is especially a problem in modern fantasy LNs, anime, and games. Katakana translation to a reasonable English equivalent can be hit or miss. This is especially true for slang, modern words, or whatever.ĭon't expect decent handling of slang or verbal tics. A human can figure out the correct reading, but a machine won't do so consistently. Once a topic is introduced, it doesn't need to be reintroduced incessentantly (obvious example: 私は) unless you want to overemphasize something.

In general the language can be a bit sparse on certain nouns. No machine can intelligently handle this problem right now. In fact, some manga or anime jokes are based on a character jumping into a conversation and not understanding the context, thus misunderstanding what is being said or something. It tends to be more context based than English, so you need a human to fill in the context. This is partially because of the way the language works. Once you have the JP text string, machine translations will inevitably give you something horrible. OCRing the text or capturing it isn't always straightforward (you'll discover this as you attempt to actually do it). If you have absolutely no Japanese knowledge, a possible strategy is to use a 'text hooker', as well as your phone to OCR and translate on screen text.

Plenty of us have played JP language games with fan translations, or 0 translations, and used machine translation to assist us.

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