Segagaga Has Been Translated into English

Post by nekooooo » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

ndiddy wrote: post #21

RobRivera wrote: post #18

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Based on what I read in the article, MT was used as an experiment and proof of concept, and dedicated translation was done for the full release. Was that not the case? Was the workflow MT -> human translation? If so thats honestly such a lazy followthru given the technical hurdles overcome wrt the font tech

From the Github repo ( https://github.com/ExxistanceDC/Segagaga-English-Translation ), the translation went through a process called MTPE (Machine translation, post-editing). This works just like it sounds. The initial translation is done with machine translation, then human translators review and edit the resulting translation to try to correct any mistakes. > What I call the “playtesting translation” — a base trans…

the end product is incredibly stilted, missing in-jokes, has misnamed items and ruins like half the puns and wordplay in the game. it also switches past/present/future cases and is really inconsistent with indefinite articles.

Post by qingcharles » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

flykespice wrote: post #17

ndiddy wrote: post #8

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> and I don't understand why some users are boycotting the translation due to the AI used in the translation work, but that's beside the point Segagaga has a ton of obscure, referential, meta humor that isn't easily translated to English. The "cleaned up machine translation" approach means that a lot of this is lost. Looking at some screenshots of the game, the script seems stiff and overly formal, much like how dire…

Is it possible for AIs in the future catch up those gags and meta humor in the language? Could the translation team have done a better job prompting the AI with the current technology? Afaik japanese media (manga) abuse alot the use of puns on its language due to the amount of homonyms on it.

This stuff is really hard to translate. Imagine asking someone to translate 4chan into Japanese. This is ultra-S-tier hard translations. My goal in learning Japanese is the ability to read this kind of in-joke niche sub-culture slang. I'd love to read the original Densha Otoko posts from 2ch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_Otoko

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