Translations

I've been listening to Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising's soundtrack a lot these past uhh *check notes* I guess it's been months at this rate. Mostly just as background music as I work, but more than a few of the tracks caught my attention every time they play. VERSUSIA is one of them, and one of th...

Embarrassed to say that I'm so fallen back in my Japanese studies that the only time I ever actually study is when I stumble on an anime song that I really like and somehow propelled me to make a translation of its lyrics.

Trigun Stampede was a good anime, marred with messy writing and inconsisten...

It's one of those posts, folks, where I post my translation of a Japanese song along with tons of commentaries but it's all in Indonesian, so like half of y'all can only read this short prelude. Sorry!

I love RADWIMPS and I love Makoto Shinkai's movies and his latest, Suzume, is among one of my...

This post contains Indonesian translation for the song KICK BACK by Kenshi Yonezu, the opening song to Chainsaw Man Season 1. I do these kind of things to practice my Japanese and translation skills. While I try to translate mostly from the Japanese with my fledgling fluency, I also got some guida...

This post contains an Indonesian translation for 棒人間 (*Bouningen*) a song by RADWIMPS, but I also want to talk about the song in English for a bit.

As with my previous song translation post, this is mostly done to practice my Japanese. For this one though, to my shame, I immediately gave up after...

This post contains Indonesian translation (and comments on the process) for the lyrics of Fukashigi no Karute, the ending song for the anime Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny-Girl Senpai. I did the translation to practice my Japanese and I just feel like it's easier to translate this to Indonesian...

I've been speaking English since I was a wee child so I'm used to it but like, sometimes I sit, and think, and wonder, "What the hell you really can just call your professor or your parents with 'you'? You call your older siblings by their name? Ridiculous."

In some other languages, including In...

This is a translation of an Indonesian short story originally titled "Pada Suatu Hari, Ada Ibu dan Radian", written by Avianti Armand and featured in the newspaper Kompas in 2009 (although it was originally written in 2007). You can read the original here.

This is a good one. If you've read so...

This is an English translation of an Indonesian short story titled Bagaimana Nasrul Marhaban Mati dan Dikenang which was featured in the newspaper Tempo on 15 June 2014. You can read the original here.

I'm not usually a fan of Indonesian short stories, and especially not those usually featured...

This is an English translation of a story my friend wrote, originally titled "Kala Macet Siang Itu" and written for a Writing Challenge in July. It's just a silly meandering story, but I like its tone and how it feels extremely Indonesian, extremely Bandung, extremely [name of college redacted]. It'...