As some of you may have noticed, I’m experimenting with Amazon.  In addition to selling my used manga, I have opened an “Associates” store to make it easy for you to purchase some of the manga series I translate, review, and recommend.  The idea here is to create a “win-win-win” situation in which you all, if you can, support the artists and publisher by purchasing the manga when it becomes available, I can get a little money from referring the sale to Amazon, and you all can have easier access to purchase the manga.  Yeah, yeah, yeah … I can’t … Continue reading Amazon Experiment

Are you finding that your paper dictionaries don’t have half of the words you are looking for when you are translating manga? Well, here are some suggestions for you. In the course of struggling through translating, I have found some online resources that have been a great help to me. The most helpful I’ve found so far is a website called “Tangorin.” It’s by far the deepest online dictionary resource I’ve found so far. It even has many of the idiomatic words in its database. This dictionary contains several examples of word usage (20+), breakdowns of the kanji, a list … Continue reading Online Japanese Dictionaries