But how is the creative process working? different for you and do you have sort of a preference towards one or the other or do they feed different parts of your creative soul

yeah I actually made a video about this I want to say about a year ago where I explain how writing novels and translating novels are quite similar to each other and I think that's partly what has feeded into me being so fast I've been writing I've been writing one and a half novels a year since the year like 2022.

I've been writing very quickly.

I've been pumping them out very quickly.

But part of it is because I translate light novels at a breakneck speed.

Also, I have been translating light novels for four years now.

And I am just about to finish, I think, number 46.

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do have some thoughts.

So on the one hand, Tokusatsu fandom, a lot of that comes from fan subs and non-official subs.

So you are going to have that subculture where people have really developed that nomenclature, then that sense of solidarity and community around these words.

Um, so on the one hand you have that and it's really hard to get rid of that.

So if you are going to do an official translation, say of some classic Tokusatsu stuff and whatever, you do have to think about what is sacred in fan communities.

Um, A colleague of mine, Katrina Leodakis, ran into this a while ago when she translated Higurashi, When They Cry Go.

But yeah, I gotta make it shorter.