User blog comment:Damesukekun/Song Translating and Mistranslating/@comment-65.49.68.195-20130524124022/@comment-1523675-20130524141457

Hello Motokokusanagi,

Thank you very much for reading. I wrote nothing wrong here. I received emails from translators about this article. They all thanked me saying they could deepen the insight on Japanese way of thinking and translating. A recommended translator even put a link to this tutorial in his/her YouTube video descriptions and encouraged viewers to go through this tutorial.

I have to say you were in a good position to educate overseas translators. You could have taught them Japanese language, Japanese way of thinking, how to communicate with Japanese Ps, and the most important thing, responsibilities of translating. Yet you were all reluctant to do this. As Blacksaingrain once pointed, Japanese Ps were not used to western way of copyright and had no idea how to communicate with overseas fandom. You had a good chance to be a bridge between Ps and overseas fans. Result. You were stubborn enough to spread the misconception to western fandom that vocaloid songs are copyright free and that everyone can translate them freely behind creators. You even encouraged people with poor Japanese skills to "translate" their favorate vocaloid songs behind creators. I have to say you are partly responsible for tons of grave mistranslations that are going around in YouTube.

Waiting for your reply.