@Tromend
Thank you! We've frequently joked about going full 4kids, but I think where our philosophy differs is that we think it's okay for there to be a large element of foreignness to the text. After all, if the setting is Japan, why wouldn't people eat onigiri, drink amazake, and use point...
@CKT0304
You're free to disagree with how we decide to translate things, as that is your prerogative.
We think making that misunderstanding as clear and exciting as in the original Japanese is more important than sitting readers down and explaining to them how the misunderstanding went, making...
@CKT0304
We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best get the misunderstanding to work in English, seeing as it's impossible to say the word "like" all by itself without its constituent parts as the Japanese always does for these situations. Since we try to avoid translation notes...
Luckily, from this point onward, as far as we can see (the backlog to being caught up isn't very big) we either focus on the main couple or they are a big part of the chapter for the next bit.
Exciting!
Also, there are no hidden messages in the last note from Takagi. As a few have already pointed it, if anything it's just her usual hinting at her feelings.
@StormTAG
p5 -- Pretty easy to translate. The English words went by type, so we just replaced all of the English words so they would create the message we needed then added words of a similar type.
p7 -- The original line was more like (paraphrasing because I'm lazy): "I'm gonna be super rich...
@Batora
Since we translated jan-ken-pon as rock-paper-scissors, by "random romaji", I assume you mean acchi-muite-hoi, yes?
I suppose we could have done "scorch the earth" localization and translated acchi-muite-hoi as "look over there" or something to that effect, but we decided to keep it...
Not sure if we need to do so for Group Leader accounts but, just in case, can I request this role for this account as well too, please. Thanks, nehnehneji (aka neji at TSP)