Translating is a lot like writing. It's tedious and dry and sometimes I just don't feel like doing it. Switching between two languages is very difficult even for bilingual people. You can read a sentence and understand it perfectly in Japanese, but you'll have no idea how to express it in English. There are plenty of days where I have to force myself to do it and it'll take me over an hour to do one page because I'm procrastinating the whole time.

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At the same time, translating is really, really fun. I get the same joy out of it as I did when I wrote fanfiction. There are those occasional moments when I feel I perfectly nailed the characters and the way they speak. Moments when I feel I captured the soul of the story as I interpret it. For me, translating is art, and I get my highs when I make the words speak.