Category Archives: Pokemon Card

Japanese Pokémon cards translated to English. I first scan or find the Japanese card online. I then attempt to clean it up using the resources on hand –such as similar textures on the same page. I then do the translation and insert the translated text in the proper fonts (Gill Sans and Gill Sans Condensed).

There are limitations that an official translator would not run into, such as the “clean up” process. There would already be a base template for the card that one really just has to insert text upon, and so the quality would not drop. The current method may be low quality as it is completely dependent on the quality of the original source. Watermarks and low resolution sometimes cannot be helped.

On a professional level, the clean card and proper programs would be much easier to work with, and would take nowhere near as long. These serve as improvised examples regardless.

Pokemon Card: Garchomp

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Today’s Pokemon is Garchomp. The quality has been low on my digital edits recently due to low quality source material… but hopefully the translation still turned out okay.

The original Japanese card is first/on top. My edit/translation is second/bottom.

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Pokemon Card: Pikachu (X/Y 42)

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Today’s Pokemon is Pikachu, again! This is specifically Pikachu (X/Y  42).

Japanese Card is top/first, my edit/translation is second/bottom. Card info can be found here.

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I decided to add small notes this time just for those who are curious:

–ほっぺすりすり (Hoppesurisuri) means to “rub a cheek against,” and so was appropriately localized as “nuzzle.”

–でんこうせっか (denkousekka) literally means “lightning speed,” and so appropriately localized as “quick attack.”