Sample Translations
November, 2024. Metropolis Japan.
Have you ever wondered why ramen is the perfect meal after a night of drinking? There are some pseudoscientific theories out there giving answers, but lately, I’ve started to suspect that it may be one manifestation of the Freudian death drive. Getting thoroughly drunk brings us closer to death. It’s like playing at suicide. Thinking and living stop mattering. Thinking in order to live stops mattering. Then, with a ramen late-night snack, we become satiated. We sleep. We drink to our heart’s content, pull down the curtain on the night with some tasty ramen, then collapse into bed and enter a catatonic state. Ramen pulls down the curtain on life. On ourselves. I particularly like one ramen shop that faces the main road in Shinjuku Nichome. They serve up seriously salty miso ramen there...
Loner Life in Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 1
Seven Seas.
A sarcastic isekai comedy about surviving in a fantasy world with only the weirdest magic powers. Inspired the hit manga, and don’t miss the upcoming anime!
When sarcastic loner Haruka gets transported with his class to another world, he’s not wild about adventuring, but he wouldn’t mind having some cool powers. Unfortunately, he’s last in line when the magic cheat skills get divvied up, so by the time it’s Haruka’s turn, there are no good choices left. Now Haruka will have to take on this fantasy world the hard way–on his own, with a hodgepodge of bizarre skills! When infighting and chaos break out among his classmates, can this loner come to the rescue?
