Author spots me in the credits of RahX. I felt that this show was just about the high point of my work. It's not the most impressive or the most time-consuming (Excel and Eva are both in there, heh), but it was the one that came together perfectly. Sure, I was spoiled silly from helping work on the translation, but them's the breaks, and we polished it up about as well as it could be done.

I'd effuse about Shoko here, but I try not to embarrass her. I'll just say she's the best. She's enough better than "good" that I wouldn't actually have been able to appreciate the difference if I hadn't worked with her for years.

Ending was a bit disappointing, not because it wasn't good, but because by then we'd come up with a couple of pretty solid scenarios that would explain the whole mysticism of the show consistently. (Yeah, yeah, I should have learned better with Eva. But this was a show specifically made to succeed in things Eva failed to do!) We were interested in which one of them better fit what the original Japanese writers had in mind, because the translation mattered here and there - nothing major, mostly for tone and motivations of some of the characters, but we wanted to get it exactly right.

So, having an unusual opportunity, we fired an e-mail off to the Japanese production staff, who was unusually interested in the translation - even to the point of asking us to maintain the name order of the characters (which worked out anyway, 'cause the Malaysian pilot used Western order convention). Response came back mostly "duh? We weren't really thinking about it that hard," or polite phrases to that effect. Kind of a let-down, though it's better that it be something that we had to ask about rather than the train wreck at the end of Eva.

Oh, and the disc isn't authored to go back to English at the end of every episode - leastways, the original release wasn't, that much I can vouch for. There's a few players out there that will do wonky things with your language settings between titles, but that's a defect of the player, not the disc.

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