Been a bit of a rough month for me, though Japanese (and Spanish) have been going fine, actually? I’m also not having any trouble keeping up with National Novel Writing Month.
So far so good on the reading challenge! I actually just finished the book I was reading in Spanish, Antes de Ser Libres by Julia Alvarez, and I started reading a Spanish translation of a graphic novel called Redbone by Christian Staebler and Sonia Paoloni, which I picked up at the library. So far, it’s much easier than the novels I’ve been reading, haha.
As far as Japanese goes, I finished the November 6 Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling show just in time for the next show (which I’m currently in the process of translating)!
Here’s a photo from the show. Hyper Misao was about to go to the UK to wrestle in a couple shows, so she came to this match prepared for her trip! She was dressed as Harry Potter and had her luggage with her. But her teammates, Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita, were worried about how well she’d packed, so they opened her luggage and found it completely empty except for her passport, haha. Misao said that she would fill it using a magic spell.
Unfortunately for Misao, her opponents (Yuka Sakazaki and Mizuki) took advantage of her empty luggage, too.
She did manage to get the win, though, and was able to travel to the UK with peace of mind! I didn’t watch either of the shows in England (they were with the company Pro Wrestling: EVE), but Misao was practicing doing her pre-match spiel on the microphone in English so that she could be ready to do it in English at EVE. She made a couple tweets in English, too.
(Boy am I going to miss twitter if it dies… I don’t know what pro wrestling would do without it! I did manage to convince my predecessor (who is an actual professional translator, haha, and is the best Japanese-English translator I’ve ever encountered) to archive his old translation tweets for TJPW and DDT from like 2018-2021 when the account was active, so I’m very, very relieved that at least a backup of those will exist if all else fails. Otherwise, years of history for those companies would be lost…)