The following tweets were the starting point of SonicJPNews.
you're very welcome!😁— Knuttunk(クヌート) (@Knuttunk55) March 20, 2017
I know that feeling of not neing able to get full info because of the language wall. I noticed today that -
-many English speakers are getting some important Japanese Sonic info wrong… I'm thinking about creating special account for it.— Knuttunk(クヌート) (@Knuttunk55) March 20, 2017
where I post original and translated Japanese Sonic news. What do you think? :)— Knuttunk(クヌート) (@Knuttunk55) March 20, 2017
Sure! Thank you for the encouragement! I'll try to make it work today or tomorrow and will let you know :)— Knuttunk(クヌート) (@Knuttunk55) March 20, 2017
It was that moment when saw somebody showing their disapprovement over a google-translation of a Japanese tweet fom Shun Nakamura-san, the producer of Sonic Forces, who had been giving out hints and sneak-peeks of the upcoming game.
It went like this: the person understood the tweet as the game's next trailer comes in fall, which would be almost half a year from that day.
In the original tweet, however, it was stated that the game's FINAL trailer would come somewhere in autumn. Not the next one.
Some people reacted negatively to the mistranslated information, which I did not see as a good sign. If their misunderstanding remains, it would do no good for both fans and developers.
When I was talking about this small incident on how a small translation error could lead to huge gap in information, and how I could make a Twitter account dedicated for Sonic with translations of Japanese tweets into English to avoid such trouble, a friend on Twitter, Menno, encounraged me to realize the idea - so I did!
I decided on the name for the new account rather quickly. I wanted to make it simple and easy to remember.
The name SonicJPNews is a combination of three words: Sonic (obvious, yeah), JPN (= Japan) and News.
You can call it however you want, but I personally read it as 'Sonic J-P-news'.
Actually I'm curious how you read it - Sonic Japan News? Japanews would sound funny, too.
Then I drew this little Sonic icon inspired by 'Sonic the Sketchhog' of the official Sonic website. This little smiling Sonic has been my buddy ever since.
Anyway, I hope to be a help of those who want to catch up with Japanese news which are Sonic and SEGA related.
Enjoy!
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