Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26435807-20151220173546/@comment-24187738-20151220175340

As the Wikia's main translator, I'll just put in my two cents here first- I'm not capable of doing this job. The level of spoken Japanese including slangs and jokes is too high for me to catch entirely, especially without a script. Even if I get paid for it, I wouldn't feel right taking money for a product I'm not confident in putting out.

Subtitling videos is also a tough business that requires more than just a translator. You need a whole team with people to do the timing, the encoding and other stuff. Though there are many fansub teams out there, most of them work on interest basis. And from what I've watched myself from the lives, it would be very hard for people who are unaware of the context to put out a proper translation. So yeah, perhaps you could put the word out and ask if any group is willing to take up this job- but again this is a bit iffy because I'm not sure if people are allowed to profit off the LL work. I highly doubt so, and there would most likely be issues with it if word gets to the companies.

And it's amusing, but there are literally only two translation "teams" (I use this word loosely because it's a one-person team here and a two-person team over there) doing LL non-song content that I know of: us, and another team that so far has also seemed incapable of putting out video releases. You would think that with such a large fanbase, surely there's got to be others out there, but the truth is almost unbelievable.

So yeah, those are just my thoughts on the issue. It's a great idea and I understand the demand, it's just problematic trying to implement it. I literally started studying Japanese myself 2.5 years ago because I wanted to understand Love Live! content and concerts and knew that most of it would never get translated. =/