The Culture: The Poz In Localization Is Under Threat

A one-two-three of good news.

Notice that this happens on the heels of Elon having his man implement auto-translation between Japanese and English.

When that happened, suddenly Japanese users could see how Crunchyroll and other Death Cultist front organizations have been fucking with Japan's soft power powerhouse export first-hand. That did not get ignored for long; it filtered up the Chain of Command of Japan's massive corporate behemoths, and C-Suite decided that these Death Cultists are the reason for why Line Ain't Going Up Fast Enough.

Yep, Mammon Mob vs. Death Cult yet again. Again, neither side are our friends, but the Japanese C-Suites tend to have a more long-term view of things than their Western counterparts and thus they (a) are willing to have the line go up slower in return for guaranteed stability and (b) thus are heavily incentivized to punish instability with the fist of an angry God.

This doesn't mean that things will turn on a dime and suddenly get better. What means is that Western fans need to chimp the fuck out, good and hard, where our Japanese friends can see and hear and let the autotranslate do the work of getting the point across for us. Then they can push it up the chain to C-Suite, where the suits can then bring the pain on our behalf. We have the ear of power; don't waste it.

In the meantime, I suggest we keep the love-fest going by sharing our favorite works with them- especially anying that doesn't route through Wizardry.