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1 March 2024

     19:49  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 41 changes history +2,281 [Yova‎ (41×)]
     
19:49 (cur | prev) +65 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "But your sins aren't something small. You must repent a lot more.")
     
19:48 (cur | prev) +25 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "How is it? Did you learn?")
     
19:48 (cur | prev) +75 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Yes, I'll think about it after I beat you and return the flowers to normal.")
     
19:47 (cur | prev) +61 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even if you reduce your sins, you must accumulate good deeds.")
     
19:46 (cur | prev) +39 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Because it's work, sin isn't an excuse.")
     
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19:45 (cur | prev) +62 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Thieves, murderes, warriors, those are also people with a job.")
     
19:44 (cur | prev) +60 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "How rude! Exterminating youkai is my job, I can't help that.")
     
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19:41 (cur | prev) +60 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Ifam in charge of your judgement, it will go poorly for you.")
     
19:39 (cur | prev) +174 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "And also even if you're a shrine maiden, you haven't exchanged with your god. Sometimes you turn* against your god. {{Tlnote|*牙をむく(kiba wo muku), lit. "turn claws".}}")
     
19:34 (cur | prev) +61 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You have also exterminated plenty of those who aren't youkai.")
     
19:33 (cur | prev) +66 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You have exterminated a great number of youkai for no good reason.")
     
19:32 (cur | prev) +68 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If I beat you without complaining, will everything return to normal?")
     
19:32 (cur | prev) +70 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If we leave the incident alone, it's gonna look like I'm slacking off!")
     
19:31 (cur | prev) +3 Yova talk contribs
     
19:30 (cur | prev) +29 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It's not a problem like that!")
     
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19:28 (cur | prev) +42 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Wouldn't it be better to leave them alone.")
     
19:28 (cur | prev) +88 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Also, if ghosts are gonna make flowers bloom, they can believe they're still alive......")
     
19:27 (cur | prev) +70 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Is that so? Doesn't bother us, it doesn't bother you that much either?")
     
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19:26 (cur | prev) +75 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If you know that, wasn't it a problem to do something? I can't do anything.")
     
19:14 (cur | prev) +59 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "in red spider lillies reside lonely people with no friends.")
     
19:13 (cur | prev) +52 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "In sunflowers reside the spirits of cheerful people,")
     
19:11 (cur | prev) +147 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Flowers are personalities, in other words, they are plants that express the qualities of the soul, that's why they have good affinity with spirits.")
     
19:10 (cur | prev) +75 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Are you maybe saying all these flowers are...... spirits of outside humans?")
     
19:09 (cur | prev) +109 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "That's right, the ghosts right now are outside humans. Unfortunate spirits that weren't able to expect death.")
     
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19:03 (cur | prev) +85 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Spirits that lost their place go reside to flowers. That's why flowers are flowering.")
     
19:02 (cur | prev) +68 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Such spirits are unstable. That's why they want a body by all means.")
     
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18:43 (cur | prev) +62 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I can't even oay half the price. Or better, do you have money?")
     
18:42 (cur | prev) +61 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Seems like you've fallen off. Alright, let me call your boss!")
     
18:41 (cur | prev) +46 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Since there's too much to do, it's impossible~")
     
18:36 (cur | prev) +43 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If you beat me...... with this many ghosts,")
     
18:36 (cur | prev) +56 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Come on, bring the ghosts to Higan with that giant ship.")
     
18:35 (cur | prev) +52 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I'll escort you with my Titanic. For half the price.")
     
18:29 (cur | prev) +46 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Got it. If you're gonna be on my way for work.")
     
18:27 (cur | prev) +44 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Do your work properly! Don't just slack off!")
     
18:27 (cur | prev) +68 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "To gather the ghosts and go where~ well, I'm going to Higan. |note=?")

18 February 2024

     14:15  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 2 changes history +149 [Yova‎ (2×)]
     
14:15 (cur | prev) +94 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You probably...... didn't bring* the ghosts to Higan? {{Tlnote|*渡す(watasu), lit. "give".}}")
     
14:13 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Then, I'll be off here...... I have work to do. |note=?")

10 February 2024

     09:54  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 20 changes history +1,135 [Yova‎ (20×)]
     
09:54 (cur | prev) +22 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Aah, that's a problem.")
     
09:51 (cur | prev) +83 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Ghosts. The flowers confused me, but looking closely, aren't there ghosts all over?")
     
09:47 (cur | prev) +44 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Aah, ghosts, ghosts? Ghosts have multiplied?")
     
09:46 (cur | prev) +110 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I've just come to investigate why has the number of ghosts increased abnormally at the same time with flowers.")
     
09:45 (cur | prev) +50 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "That's why I won't cross, I don't even have money.")
     
09:43 (cur | prev) −2 Yova talk contribs
     
09:43 (cur | prev) +72 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "if you pay the crossing fee, I can take you to a luxury cruise in Higan.")
     
09:40 (cur | prev) +5 Yova talk contribs
     
09:40 (cur | prev) +43 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I don't often let living humans cross......")
     
09:37 (cur | prev) +211 Yova talk contribs
     
09:35 (cur | prev) +42 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "At Higan* is the Sanzu's Titanic, my ship.")
     
09:30 (cur | prev) +48 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I won't cross. I have no money, and who are you?")
     
09:29 (cur | prev) +31 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If <u>you pay</u> now, 10% off.")
     
09:28 (cur | prev) +47 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "And with there being an abnormal lot of ghosts!")
     
09:27 (cur | prev) +120 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "The price for crossing the Sanzu <u>river</u> is absurd, you won't be able to cross with things like shrine's offerings.")
     
09:23 (cur | prev) +46 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "First warning for a human hurrying into death.")
     
09:18 (cur | prev) +25 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "babbling at a graveyard?!")
     
09:17 (cur | prev) +43 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Well, I think they just celebrated flowers.")
     
09:17 (cur | prev) +40 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "The abnormal amount of fairies and......")
     
09:16 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "There are 2 more things that are abnormally increasing.")

27 January 2024

     13:51  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 37 changes history +1,856 [Yova‎ (37×)]
     
13:51 (cur | prev) +53 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even if you fight me, there will be nothing for news.")
     
13:50 (cur | prev) +53 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Hm, I finally saw the destination. With my intuition.")
     
13:50 (cur | prev) +18 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Then don't ask me.")
     
13:50 (cur | prev) +41 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I noticed a little without it being said.")
     
13:49 (cur | prev) +51 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Don't you feel another incident other than flowers?")
     
13:49 (cur | prev) +56 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Ah, yes. Flowers. You'll know that when you see flowers.")
     
13:48 (cur | prev) +57 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Come on, tell me what you know about the flower incident!")
     
13:47 (cur | prev) +123 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Ah, yeah, you're a journalist? Then you're '''well informed'''*? {{Tlnote|*情報通(jouhoutsuu), lit. "information path"}}")
     
13:44 (cur | prev) +54 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Hmm. It was better to take pictures while hidden......")
     
13:43 (cur | prev) +81 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It's bad to nonchalantly show up in front of me who exterminates youkai as a job.")
     
13:41 (cur | prev) +74 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I was in the middle of exterminating a youkai for no reason if I find one.")
     
13:40 (cur | prev) +4 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Huh?")
     
13:40 (cur | prev) +49 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Now, I was in the middle of youkai extermination.")
     
13:40 (cur | prev) +18 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Yes. I remembered.")
     
13:39 (cur | prev) +34 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I'll secretly make this into news.")
     
13:39 (cur | prev) +19 Yova talk contribs
     
13:39 (cur | prev) +78 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Now then, I also said earlier, it's not importrant if you continue furhter on?")
     
13:34 (cur | prev) +54 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "About news, I haven't seen it recently. The newspaper.")
     
13:33 (cur | prev) +40 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Because of that, we tengu know you well.")
     
13:32 (cur | prev) +62 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Up until now, I've made news for all your interesting actions.")
     
13:31 (cur | prev) +38 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I'm an insignificant tengu journalist.")
     
13:29 (cur | prev) +7 Yova talk contribs
     
13:28 (cur | prev) +21 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You're too slow......")
     
13:28 (cur | prev) +18 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Wait, who are you?")
     
13:27 (cur | prev) +65 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Flowers......? That isn't something that will end up on the news.")
     
13:27 (cur | prev) +65 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I just thought "Why do flowers bloom like this" and wandered off.")
     
13:26 (cur | prev) +73 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even if you tell me to continue...... I just fly and there are no traces.")
     
13:26 (cur | prev) +64 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Hey, is it good to continue on without caring about me? Come on.")
     
13:25 (cur | prev) +38 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Finally, I found the nostalgic youkai.")
     
13:22 (cur | prev) +30 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Now, I'll make this into news.")
     
13:22 (cur | prev) +61 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I finally found the shrine maiden! This deep in the mountain!")
     
13:22 (cur | prev) +71 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Since I haven't found her at all, I thought "Where was she headed to?",")
     
13:21 (cur | prev) +74 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I thought the shrine maiden had finally started moving and looked for her,")
     
13:19 (cur | prev) +84 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "<u>It's been a</u> few hours since the human shadow had disappeared from the shrine,")
     
13:15 (cur | prev) +71 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Anyway, even the lotus flowers fully bloomed. Seriously, what happened?")
     
13:08 (cur | prev) +35 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I don't go to mountains often......")
     
13:06 (cur | prev) +22 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "There was a pond here?")

26 January 2024

     20:43  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 23 changes history +939 [Yova‎ (23×)]
     
20:43 (cur | prev) +3 Yova talk contribs
     
20:43 (cur | prev) +7 Yova talk contribs
     
20:41 (cur | prev) +69 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Probably but...... I think this incident doesn't need to be resolved.")
     
20:40 (cur | prev) +67 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It's no good like this. I'll aim at where I don't always go next...")
     
20:39 (cur | prev) +49 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It's too sunny. Flower viewing is flower viewing!")
     
20:39 (cur | prev) +27 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "This wasn't here until now.")
     
20:38 (cur | prev) 0 Yova talk contribs
     
20:38 (cur | prev) +76 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even when you fly straight and fight, you haven't found a trace at all......")
     
20:37 (cur | prev) +16 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Isn't this rare?")
     
20:37 (cur | prev) +31 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "As if something is in your way.")
     
20:36 (cur | prev) +88 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I'll have to go to a place which I don't usually approach <u>if it's</u> like this......")
     
20:36 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "The traces on where to go have really disappeared......")
     
20:35 (cur | prev) +95 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Looks like Reimu had '''given up'''* as well. {{Tlnote|*手上げ(teage), lit. "raise hands".}}")
     
20:33 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "That's not something to boast about. |note=?Check this.")
     
20:31 (cur | prev) +70 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "If it's as usual, if I go and fight, the culprit is there before that!")
     
20:23 (cur | prev) +69 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Did you think the culprit will fall if you just stand here aimlessly?")
     
20:22 (cur | prev) +13 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "obvious talk.")
     
20:22 (cur | prev) +10 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Isn't that")
     
20:21 (cur | prev) +88 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I'll have to go to a place which I don't usually approach <u>if it's</u> like this......")
     
20:19 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "The traces on where to go have really disappeared......")
     
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25 January 2024

     11:52  Th09/Reimu's Scenario/en-literal‎‎ 43 changes history +1,303 [Yova‎ (43×)]
     
11:52 (cur | prev) +46 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "That's right, your karma is a little too deep.")
     
11:49 (cur | prev) +50 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It shouldn't be that hot. The smell will fly away.")
     
11:47 (cur | prev) +49 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Wherever I go, I don't feel the smell of flowers.")
     
11:47 (cur | prev) +54 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You'll know when you see? Since you're wrong, go back.")
     
11:46 (cur | prev) +85 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Because the cherries are blooming...... I thought that this might be your work again.")
     
11:44 (cur | prev) +63 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Unfortunately, there's no one who knows about the flowers here.")
     
11:44 (cur | prev) +38 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "You won't talk, I'll call your master.")
     
11:43 (cur | prev) +7 Yova talk contribs
     
11:43 (cur | prev) +22 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "And? You know nothing?")
     
11:43 (cur | prev) +72 Yova talk contribs (Created page with ""I've come to investigate the flower incident." is written on your face!")
     
11:42 (cur | prev) +15 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "I just came by.")
     
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11:35 (cur | prev) +29 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "It's peaceful when I'm alone.")
     
11:35 (cur | prev) +5 Yova talk contribs
     
11:34 (cur | prev) +83 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even on an off <u>day</u>, you're wearing that...... and also a musical instrument.")
     
11:33 (cur | prev) +7 Yova talk contribs
     
11:33 (cur | prev) +19 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Today's my day off.")
     
11:32 (cur | prev) +54 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Aah, after all I do, you say- Huh? You're alone today?")
     
11:30 (cur | prev) +45 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "the shrine maiden is moving. You're too slow.")
     
11:30 (cur | prev) +39 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Finally because of the flower incident,")
     
11:30 (cur | prev) +74 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Even after raising above clouds...... there is nothing that can be a hint.")
     
11:26 (cur | prev) +55 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "So many flowers are blooming. You unsung loser! |note=?")
     
11:25 (cur | prev) +225 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "When you see flowers, don't you think it's amazing not to sing** a song*, but to compose*** a song*. {{Tlnote|*歌う, **唄う and ***詠う are different ways to write "utau" of which all 3 mean "to sing" or "to compose".}}")
     
11:20 (cur | prev) +40 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "A pro doesn't choose the songs it sings.")
     
11:20 (cur | prev) +35 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Isn't that a song birds don't sing?")
     
11:19 (cur | prev) +19 Yova talk contribs
     
11:14 (cur | prev) +32 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "it's coming~ Ah~ it's coming~♪")
     
11:14 (cur | prev) +29 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "A duck carries a leek and~♪")
     
11:13 (cur | prev) +3 Yova talk contribs
     
11:13 (cur | prev) +59 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "So far, the incident is going on... the same wherever I go.")

24 December 2023

N    06:27  Th08/Spell cards/en-literal‎‎ 3 changes history +14,241 [Yova‎ (3×)]
     
06:27 (cur | prev) +38 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Firefly Sign "Surface's Shooting Star"")
     
06:25 (cur | prev) +77 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "A wiki note beginning with a question mark indicates a tentative translation.")
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06:24 (cur | prev) +14,126 Yova talk contribs (Created page with "Th08/Spell cards in Literal English")

What's This?

"Literal" in this context means "word-oriented"—communicating the explicit meanings of individual words and phrases rather than the implicit meaning of the text as a whole. The opposite of a literal translation is a liberal translation, which takes many interpretive liberties, paraphrasing statements to make them flow more naturally in the target language and generally making an effort to bring the writing into the comfort zone of the reader. In contrast, a literal translation makes only minimal alterations to the text in order to preserve as much meaning as possible.

Isn't That Just a Bad Translation?

It's not what most people expect from a translation; most people want the text to feel as if it was originally written in the language they're reading. But for people who are interested in the source language, it can reveal interesting details, and for people who enjoy studying text and coming to their own understandings, a literal translation provides the raw material for a more informed interpretation. Official localizations of games usually hew to the liberal approach because of its broader appeal, and that's for the best—but this isn't an official localization! We're not trying to supplant any existing standard version, only to offer a specialized alternative. There's room (and in fact, need) in the world for more than one translation: the best way to come to the fullest possible understanding of a text, short of being fluent in the original language, is to refer to multiple high-quality translations both literal and liberal.

How Does This Relate to Touhou?

From a translator's perspective, the writing of Touhou Project, particularly early Touhou Project, is capricious and unruly, full of untranslatable puns, obscure references, and weird grammatical lilts that require significant lateral thinking to communicate concisely in any language other than Japanese. The current main English translations of many of the games are the horribly messy product of years of tweaking, each wildly varying from line to line in its approach from far too literal to far too liberal. The goal of the Literal English translation project is to move the literal translations into their own version, clean them up, and annotate them for clarity, so that the main translations can be moved in a more consistently liberal direction.

For an example of why a good literal translation is valuable, consider Reimu's encounter with Remilia in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Remilia has a line where she says that she is "fed up". This is a very clever double meaning, and it does work in both English and Japanese: the word she uses can refer figuratively to being tired of some nuisance, or it can refer literally to having eaten one's fill. Since Remilia is a vampire, she might be saying, "I don't want to fight you; I'm fed up with this BS," or she might be saying, "I don't want to fight you; I'm not thirsty for your blood at the moment." Even in this ideal scenario it is of course impossible to appreciate this clever wordplay unless the correct translation is chosen, and even if it is correct, you can appreciate the pun as ZUN's only if you can be confident that it's neither an artifact of translation nor a liberal riff on the script.

Goals

The primary goal of the project is to preserve meaning. It is impossible to do this perfectly. Even when describing the same thing, users of different languages express different information and do so in different ways. Because of this, every possible pair of languages has certain distinctive patterns of meaning damage are most likely to occur.

Meaning damage may be divided into two broad categories, loss and artifaction.

Loss

Information is lost in translation if it is communicated in the original text, but doesn't make it into the translation. If a word in the source language has no precise equivalent in the target language, nuance will be lost. Wordplay is particularly susceptible to loss: in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, one interaction between Marisa and Rumia hinges upon the visual resemblance between Rumia's physical pose and the shape of the kanji numeral 10. For a literal translation, the only solution in such a case is annotation.

Artifaction

Information can also often make its way into the translated text despite being nowhere in the original text. Such changes are called artifacts of translation. They may occur when a word in the source text has no perfect translation, or when the target language requires certain information that the source language can leave ambiguous—both very often the case between English and Japanese. Again, annotations are important, as is some means marking insertions (see below).

Conventions

Notes and Annotations

The translation should make judicious use of in-game annotations, marked up with the Tlnote template. If the annotation relates to a specific word or phrase in the line it's applied to, express it as a footnote: put an asterisk after the relevant word in the dialogue text and before the corresponding explanation in the annotation text. The annotations should be kept brief, and there shouldn't be too many for the player to take in at once.

If you want to discuss translation decisions at length, do so in a wiki comment using the |note=... markup. These will appear on the translation page, but not in the patched in game.

Insertions

Sometimes it's impossible to avoid inserting words into the translated text, for the sake of disambiguity or even elementary grammar. Because Japanese is a relatively terse language and English a relatively verbose one, Japanese-English translation requires lots of insertions.To prvent these from becoming artifacts of translation, all insertions that resulted from artifactions should be underlined. Despite these needing to be inserted most of the time, this does not apply words such as copulas (is, am, are, etc.), determiners (a, an, the, my, your, etc.), pronouns, and other short words, provided that they are not part of a phrasal expression that you are using to translate some word or phrase in the Japanese language.

For example, 「久々の仕事」 (said by Reimu in EoSD Stage 1) could be translated, "[first] job in a while". 「仕事」 is a noun meaning "job" or "work", in this context referring to something like a freelance gig. 「久々」 is a noun denoting a long period of time, and in the genitive case it expresses the sense of seeing something again after a long period of absence, hence, "first in a while". The phrase "in a while" stands in directly for the genitive 「久々の」, but the sense of first-ness is peculiar to the English expression and only incidental to the meaning of the phrase, so it's considered an insertion.

For an example of an artifact resulting in the target language needing more information from the source(mostly due to the context), 「紫の桜は、罪深い人間の霊が宿る花。」 (said by Eiki in PoFV final stage) could be translated as, "Purple cherry flowers are the flowers in which the deeply sinful people reside." in which the word equivalent to flowers next to the word cherry is nowhere to be found in the original sentence, but was added due to the context of flowers, thus this is considered an artifact of the translation.

Retentions

Similarly, it's sometimes beneficial to retain a non-English word without translating it at all. This should be done sparingly—unlike insertion, retention is rarely necessary, and when committed excessively, is the mark of a lazy translation. As foreignisms, all retentions should be italicized in accordance with standard English style. This does not apply to character names.

Words like youkai, which refer to concepts unique to Japanese culture or folklore, should be retained. Otherwise, err on the side of English: himesama means "princess", kami means "god", and so on. If a concept is uniquely Japanese but does have a commonly accepted translation, use the English term: miko means "shrine maiden".

Names and Honorifics

Full names should be kept in the same form as in the original text, with the surname first and given name second for Eastern names (e.g. "Hakurei Reimu") and vice-versa for Western names (e.g. "Alice Margatroid"). Honorific suffixes (-san, -chan, -sama, etc.), when attached to names, should be retained. Honorific epithets (ojou-sama, sensei, etc.) should be translated.

Romanization

All romanizations should adhere strictly to modified Hepburn, except that long vowels should be represented as diphthongs rather than with diacritics (Gensoukyou, not Gensokyo or Gensōkyō). Spell the nominative は as wa, the accusative を as wo, and the lative へ as e. Preserve archaic kana where they occur (Hinanawi, not Hinanai), but leave an annotation specifying the modern pronunciation.

Translations

Complete or not, translations of the games listed below are the ones with significant coverage of single or multiple sections. To see more detailed progress, go here.

Icon th06.png TH06 The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Icon th07.png TH07 Perfect Cherry Blossom
Icon th09.png TH09 Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Icon th19.png TH19 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost