I brought this up bc Shueisha gives Viz these photoblue scans that are basically unusable unless I correct them manually but they'll still have the watermark anyway. You can see an example here from the Naruto interview which I still highly recommend you all read! https://t.co/EBRGc1oenv

Kaiju No. 8 41: Narumi says he only asks for じつりょく/実力 (jitsuryoku/skill) but the kanji says 財力 (zairyoku/financial power.) Fell into my lap yet again lol. #怪獣8号 #KaijuNo8

I don't think I mentioned this. In Super Smartphone, Moura's Googugu screen is in pictographs and onomatopoeia on part of him being slow-witted. A closed fist "gu" + elongation squiggle ~ = "guu" ぐ "gu" ＋ Gu (グッ) the SFX for a thumbs up/グッドサイン (good sign.)

So instead of just saying "You need to use respectful speech to me," which kind of loses the punch and takes you out of the flow of the scene, I focus on what Corleo says. "I got it" is in very casual form, so logically she could be mad about him being so familiar with her.

なんてことだアポカリプスが完全にヴィクトルに..... https://t.co/kkFkjQCGMU

For this scene, Hoshina uses オモロい which is a Kansai-ben way of saying 面白い (interesting) so instead of making it "interestin'" I shape the language around the word. "We've got" instead of "we have," "folks" instead of just "people." Respectable, but somewhat relaxed (4/6)

So, normally, you just contract a bunch of gerunds and make him talk like a hick and that's it, right? Nah. Hoshina is obviously competent, so making him sound intelligent is important. He uses keigo just like anyone else, but still has Kansai-ben in there. Prudence is key. (3/6)

@brandonbovia こういう台詞は英語にすれば長く読みづらくなり吹き出しにさえ入らないため吹き出しのスペースを考えつつ英訳するのが必要不可欠。何も考えずにストレートに翻訳すれば編集者さんにもレタラーさんにも余計な訂正で困らせてしてしまうのでそれを避けたいのは漫画翻訳者としての仕事の一つです #怪獣8号

I can't believe I didn't realize this line's worth until -after- I submitted my script. Tozuka-sensei's hella good. 作業する時にじゃなく完成し提出する前にこのセリフに気づき再確認するとへぇ～さらっと認識してる！って感心しました。いや当塚先生に脱帽を。#UndeadUnluck #アンデラ

you have no idea how good of a decision it was to let me work on a series like city hunter.

Using that piece of information, you can convey the same intended purpose by switching it to -how- Corleo replied to her instead of the -form of language- he used. お前 is a familiar/crass form of "you," so we can make that "kid" to hammer the point home.

Undead Unluck Ch 45 The Unluck Bullets are each numbered (first, second, etc) to the corresponding digit. I wanted to get across the same info in English, so I tried "first finger" "second finger" but that looked dumb. I eventually settled on the current format. #UndeadUnluck