Updated blog features: Navigation banner for both PC and mobile versions!

News from 2019.05.07

Hey all!
I did another update on this blog archive site.

This time, it's the navigation banner on top!

I didn't realize this function existed on Blogger. And it works fine both on desktop and mobile versions! So not only the PC users but also people visiting my site on their smartphones will have much easier overview and quicker access to different pages and categories. That is really practical!

I should have done this waaaay before...

But anyways, now I did!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

List and description of each tab:

• Home (mobile version only) = Goes to the top page of the website with every posts listed in chronological order. (In desktop version, simply click on the blog logo at very top of the page.)
• PC ver. = Switches to desktop version of the website. (usage for mobile version users / as HOME button for PC version)
• Introduction = Posts for introduction to SonicJPNews & how-to-use for this archive site.
• Sonic = Gotta go fast! Shows all posts tagged with 'Sonic'.
• Game = Any game related news and fun stuff. Shows all posts tagged with 'Game'.
• Art = Looking for good art? Here you'll find them! Shows all posts tagged with 'Art'.
• Music = SEGA's Music = perfection. Shows all posts tagged with 'Music'.
• -OMZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Official Materials Zone. (List of links to my translations of official materials such as official game/product page, user guide, game manual etc.)
• -TAZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Translated Articles Zone. (List of links to my posts for translation of articles, mostly interviews.)
• -ENSZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Event News Summary Zone. (List of links to my summary posts for Sonic related events)
• Behind-the-Scene = Interesting backstories and look-backs by Sonic developers. Shows all posts tagged with 'Behind-the-scene'.
• Discussion = Articles summarizing hot topics discussed by Sonic developers. Shows all posts tagged  'Discussion'.
• Anniversary = Find something to celebrate for! Shows all posts tagged  'anniversary'.
• Birthday = Check whose birthday it is today! Shows all posts tagged  'birthday'.
• Plush = Need some comfort? You love plushies? Come here and adore Sonic plush adventures posted by SEGA Offcial! Shows all posts tagged  'Plush'.
• Merch = Looking for cool SEGA stuff just for yourself? Then you came to the right place! Shows all posts tagged  'merchandise'.
• JP Culture = Love Sonic and love Japan? What if they are combined together? Learn about Japan with Sonic! Shows all posts tagged  'Japanese culture'.
• SEGA-JP = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA of Japan'.
• SEGA-US = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA of America'.
• SEGA-EU = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA Europe'.

For more tags, switch to PC desktop version and look at the right side of the page. There you can find every tag I used in alphabetical order!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

On PC it looks like this...

Navigation banner on top of the site page. Make use of this for much easier SonicJPNews life!

and on mobile, like this.

Tap the blue banner which says 'Home'...

And you'll find this drop-down list of tabs.

Tap on 'PC ver.' to switch to desktop version which has more fun gadgets, such as World Map, Random Post, Popular Posts and Sonic Sounds Player!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Alright! So what do you think of it?

Now it's much easier to navigate to major topics of this blog without scrolling down the labels section on the right or searching for keywords in that little searchbox above it. Nice!

I also put link to the desktop version of this site as the first button! So mobile users don't need to go all the way down to the bottom of the page to find 'switch to web version' link.

PC version has much more contents than mobile version, so please check it out too by choosing 'PC ver.' from the dropdown list!

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!
-----------------------------

Announcing New Archive Blog & Update

News from 2019.03.16
Archived on 2019.03.17

It's almost been 2 weeks since I moved my archive blog to here.
At the same time, my Twitter follower count reached 2,222 and over (a cool number!).

To celebrate this, I announced this new archive blog on my Twitter page as follows.

🔵Hi everyone! Thank you for your support!
To celebrate my followers reaching 2,222 (cool number!), I moved and updated my archive blog!

If you ever need to search for older news or read tweets in chronological order, visit here and you'll get them!https://t.co/qDO2l2Fa6y pic.twitter.com/kfZO86iySy

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 16, 2019

From now on, I will be collecting my retweets and translation tweets on this website. It's much easier to read tweets which are related!

It's also very good for me to see everything in order & to add my own comments to each topic. I'll post translation of articles there too!

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 16, 2019

Mobile website has a simple design with only the post titles and first few sentences listed. Good for reading recent articles.https://t.co/qDO2l2Fa6y

But I recommend tapping that button at the bottom… pic.twitter.com/Df8Y5TvIE6

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 16, 2019

And voila! The PC version that's better and fun!

Make use of the following functions to make your SonicJPNews life easier!
- Search inside blog (on the right side bar)
- Label list (R)
- Archive (L)
- Twitter links (L)
- Japanese Official Sonic websites (L)

More to be added! pic.twitter.com/D3kk0k60Qm

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 16, 2019

Switch between

Mobile versionhttps://t.co/LtqlCIDvMT

and

Desktop versionhttps://t.co/qDO2l2Fa6y

By changing the last letter!
(Or just tap the links above!)

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 16, 2019

In addition to what's written in Tweets above, I added some more gadgets to make this blog an even more fun place to be.

• World Map - ClustrMaps

Placed on top right of the blog.
A gadget that shows from which place on the earth people have seen this archive blog.

I love its transparent design with simple blue colored planes which fit my blog's navy color.
The constant rotation makes it look like a miniature decoration, it's really cool just to gaze at.

It reminds me of the world map of Sonic World Adventure (Sonic Unleashed), my absolute favorite  out of all Sonic series games, and hence the gadget name. Really happy to have found it.

You can also stop the rotation when you hover your cursor over the earth. Check how many other people from your place are gathering here!
It makes me happy to know that people around the world are visiting my blog.

• Sound of Sonic - Spotify Players

Placed at the very bottom of the page.

Collection of top music from Sonic series by each composer + songs from Sonic related artists.
Check them out & if you like the samples, go fetch your Spotify software/browser and listen to complete versions there!

Currently on blog:

1. SEGA Sound Team (Mixture of all kinds of Sonic songs and BGMs by various composers)
2. Crush 40
3. Tomoya Ohtani
4. Junichi Kanemaru
5. Hideki Naganuma

More will be added in near future! I am planning to make a special article for each composers too.

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Introduction to SonicJPNews archive blog

Hi there! This is an archive site for @SonicJPNews on Twitter .
A Sonic fan and Japanese native speaker @Knuttunk55 shares Japanese Sonic news with the community that is global. May not be the fastest, but correct!

Blog posts here will contain links to original tweets, my translated tweets and sometimes my opinions on the topic for easier overview of each Sonic news.

I will combine tweets which are closely related to each other in one post, and use the time they were actually tweeted for my post.
(Good lord I can change publish date of blog posts on Blogger to even past; this is the second reason I switched from Tumblr. The first is: I can embed tweets! Kinda late on to realize these, but better than never.)

Comments and discussions are welcome.

Also check here for archive of every tweets and retweets with corresponding date & time in chronological order: https://twilog.org/sonicjpnews

SonicJPNews joined Twitter on 2017.03.21
Archiving on Blogger started on 2019.03.05 (moved from on Tumblr website)

Enjoy!
And if you like what I'm doing, please support me through Ko-fi! A cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.

First Tweets by SonicJPNews

News from 2017.03.22
Archived on 2019.03.05

These were the very first tweets I made with the brand new account. The set-off!

Hi community!
Here is the account where Japanese Sonic news will be retweeted, translated and posted. May not be the fastest, but correct!三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

I decided to create this account as I noticed some information about Sonic written in Japanese are sometimes mistaken by non-JP-speakers. 三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

So, here is my try to translate some important Japanese Sonic info into English!
I'll try to deliver as much details as possible. 三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

For the next few days I'll focus on news about the 25th anniversary games "Sonic Mania" & "Sonic Forces". Let's see how this is gonna work!🔴

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

As new pieces of information on upcoming Sonic games were anticipated, I was very motivated and wanted to start translating stuff right away.


But before that, I had to set my own tweeting style so people can recognize my tweets easily.

Initially, I intended to mark my tweets as follows, thinking that the round blue ball next to 三 (kanji for the number three, which should resemble speeding lines) would look like Sonic doing spin dash. And the red ball for the finito.

🔵- will be shown with this symbol 🔵- at the beginning.

The last tweet of the whole thread will be marked with a '🔴', just like this one! 🔴

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 27, 2017

One thing I forgot to mension:
If a translation doesn't fit in one tweet, I'm showing it with the 三🔵(or 三⭕) at the end.
It's continuation三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 27, 2017

As you can see in tweets from a month later following these, I noticed that many people didn't seem to read the whole thread. I realized that the symbols might not be visible from some people's phones; or I wasn't posting fast enough. IAs I had to switch my keyboard between Japanese and English, it also became more and more bothering to type these sybmols in when I was very busy or tired and still had to do translations. (Back then I was less lazy and translated tweets immediately as I found them - and that for EVERY tweet that seemed somehow relevant, even when they were more of daily comments and diaries of Sonic Team members)

All that overwork was taking too much time away from me, so I changed my tweeting style to a less frequent one. I don't translate everything if they seem very straightforward or when I don't have enough time and passion for. I hope you understand.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the blue spin-dashing Sonic at the beginning of my tweets is enough to see who is writing at one glance. Right? :)

(Additional comments from: 2019.03.09)

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! I'm not a fan of coffee, but a cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.

Short History of SonicJPNews

2017.03.20 - now

The following tweets were the starting point of SonicJPNews.

you're very welcome!😁
I know that feeling of not neing able to get full info because of the language wall. I noticed today that -

— Knuttunk(クヌート) (@Knuttunk55) March 20, 2017

-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!

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! I'm not a fan of coffee, but a cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.