Hoping to make your life's design a bit more dynamic!

Yeah, GAINAX only created Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and Evangelion and probably other stuff.

Thanks. I'll definitely take you up on that offer to play test at some point.

As KingMike alluded, GAINAX (animation studio behind great series like Nadia, Evengelion, Gunbuster, not to mention having worked on many more great series as animators) has produced a number of games some of them based on their own franchises (and others like Silent Mobius). They even made a strip mahjong game for Evangelion that I believe included artwork by one of the series official illustrators. I read once that the diversity helped keep their animation studio afloat and at a point may have been the only profitable thing that kept them going. Don't quote me on that though.

The eating the book sounds hysterical.

You brought up interesting points, thanks for the cultural notes ^.^
I guess anime is so influential in Japan that genre interest might shift from time to time
(much like movies here on the west) so animation studios that stay flexible can meet a wider market demand, same old, same old haha.

Hey, just an FYI. I'm happy to report that the 1st draft of the script for WtPC2 is at 50% complete as of this morning! I've really been enjoying getting to know the characters in this game and getting to read the story as I go. It's also fun because I translated the 1st and 3rd quarters of the game so if Grant winds up doing the other two quarters I may have a chance to fill in the gaps in my knowledge without having to have translated it front to back which I think will be fun.

EDIT: This also means I get to start in on an exciting mystery project now which I will be revealing later in the day.

Great job Filler, you've gotten a lot accomplished this past year. And now I am really eager to hear about this mystery project . Hope you had a good Christmas break and New Years.

I'm turning purple holding my breath... Ooops, saved... Here comes my son with a cold beer!

Mmm, beer. I won't keep you waiting any longer. I just posted the page on my projects page. I have in my possession a dumped script for Ah! My Goddess on the PC-FX! This is a PC-FX port of a PC-98 game with added voice acting and animations. See my project page for a link to a nice review and an embedded YouTube video of the intro. http://projects.mattsmessyroom.com/ahmegamisama/ NOTE: This is likely the first of not only a plethora of new translation projects but possibly of additional PC-FX projects so stay tuned in the future!

You wouldn't happen to be on any uppers, would ya?

Um...no? I may be high on translating though. Also added a page for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R for the Game Boy which is coming along very well. http://projects.mattsmessyroom.com/bssmr/ A rough first draft of the script is complete and Esperknight just got 3 lines of text displaying in the translation (as opposed to 2 originally).

EDIT: I meant to respond to you in my last post ultpaladin. Thanks for the praise and I hope you also had a great holiday. I had a very nice time. Lots of time with family, translating, and game playing.

While I'm thinking of it I may as well update about progress over the past 7 months. It's a little hard to pin down all that's been going on. I'm disappointed to say that WtPC2 script is not quite complete but it's at about 80% rough draft. I'm working on it currently and the script translation should be done in the next month or so. The rough draft of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R (GB) is finished and just needs final editing. I helped out SSTranslations with War of the Dead (PCE). Also translated a bit of an X68000 game called Joker. Ah! My Goddess is at about 10% complete but that's been set aside for a moment to finish up WtPC2 and some other stuff. Started helping out on the translation of Revolutionary Girl Utena on the Saturn, but a lot of my time has been taken up on Team Innocent for the PC-FX. We are speculating that Team Innocent script is at least 50% translated, maybe more.

I'm getting a bit antsy to have a couple releases out this year. I've managed to have a pretty good streak going on for a couple of years now. I think BSSMR and WtPC2 are pretty good bets but don't quote me on that. I'm excited about the update on Aretha II as well. Can't wait to see more as writing/inserting progresses!