Current Events > Official translator for Cypher Academy manga outright quits cuz it's too hard

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https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1169535/kumar_sivasubramanian_viz_translator_for_cipher/

Apparently because there is in insane amount of Japanese wordplay and lipograms in it >_>

I read the first two chapters and quit because it seemed impossible to enjoy without being fluent in Japanese

What is it even about?

He was that dude from Archer that had trouble translating idioms to whatever language those pirates spoke.

I've found the man who can translate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Angles

In 2017, Angles was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a prize comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize, in poetry during a formal ceremony in Tokyo on Feb. 17. Angles won the prize for his book of Japanese-language poetry, "Watashi no hizukehenkosen" ("My International Date Line"). Angles is one of the few non-native speakers to win the award and is the first non-native ever to win for a book of poetry.

He is passionate about translation as a discipline, stating that "without translation, we would be locked within our own cultures, unable to access the vast, overwhelming wealth of the rest of the world's intellect. By translating literary works, we are making that world heritage available to literally millions of people."

It looks like it's a spy / code cracking manga.

coolguyjimmy posted...

I've found the man who can translate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Angles

In 2017, Angles was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a prize comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize, in poetry during a formal ceremony in Tokyo on Feb. 17. Angles won the prize for his book of Japanese-language poetry, "Watashi no hizukehenkosen" ("My International Date Line"). Angles is one of the few non-native speakers to win the award and is the first non-native ever to win for a book of poetry.

He is passionate about translation as a discipline, stating that "without translation, we would be locked within our own cultures, unable to access the vast, overwhelming wealth of the rest of the world's intellect. By translating literary works, we are making that world heritage available to literally millions of people."

kudos to him!