SonicJPNews archive blog: introduction
Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts

2019/05/08

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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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2019/04/16

[EVENT NEWS SUMMARY ZONE]

Welcome to the Official Materials Zone!



Here you'll find links to the event summary articles by me!
I write out what happened in an event with photos and screenshots and tweets by the officials for an easy overview for you!
And of course I embed livestream records from officials if they are available, so watch the video yourself and enjoy the live atmosphere!

I hope I can do a live reports someday. But those events are never near where I live...



- sorted by date, newer articles on top - 

2019


2019.07.26
ACT. SEGA Official's fan meeting event in Ōsaki on 26th Jul 

2019.06.23
ACT. Sonic Birthday 2019 recap!

 2019.05.23
ACT. Fourth Sonic Twitter Takeover - Summary & Transcription & 日本語訳

2019.03.30-31
ACT. Summary of SEGA FES 2019! 

2019.03.16
ACT. Summary of SXSW2019 Sonic Panel & related Tweets!


2018

2018.06.23
ACT. Summary of Sonic Birthday Event 2018 at Tokyo Joypolis

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[TRANSLATED ARTICLES ZONE]

Welcome to the Translated Articles Zone!

Here you'll find links to all of the articles I translated so far. The parts which I spend most time and efforts into.

Listed here are translation of articles mostly from following sources (but not limited to):
  • interviews held by gaming magazines such as Famitsu, Gamers.net, etc.
  • articles on Sonic Channel, such as "Sound Column" by Sound Composers.

The translations are UNOFFICIAL, and please make sure to check the ORIGINAL ARTICLE before reading the translations. That way you can support the original writers with one click/tap.

If you have any article you want to be translated from Japanese to English, comment below!
Since this is a free-time hobby project, it usually takes some time (especially for long articles and interviews), but suggestions for materials are always welcome.

And if you think I did a good job, please send me a cup of coffee or tea with ko-fi!




- sorted by date, newer articles on top - 

2019

2019.06.27
ACT. 'Mario & Sonic AT Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games': Famitsu interview with producer Takaya Ōhashi-san

2019.06.27
ACT. 'Sonic AT Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games': Famitsu interview with Kasahara-san

2019.05.21
ACT. NDW's direct interview with TSR teams #5: Team Eggman

2019.05.14
ACT. NDW's direct interview with TSR teams #4: Team Vector

 2019.05.07
ACT. NDW's direct interview with TSR teams #3: Team Dark

2019.04.30
ACT. NDW's direct interview with TSR teams #2: Team Rose

 2019.04.23
ACT. NDW's direct interview with TSR teams #1: Team Sonic

 2019.04.12
ACT. Mystery of Sonic Statue in the mountains of Mie solved!

 2019.03.20
ACT. Famitsu on TSR (5): Team Sonic Racing's 3 racer types, machine customization & Frozen Junkyard info released

 2019.03.19
ACT. Senoue-san at LP Listening Room of Technics (no translation yet)

 2019.03.16
ACT. ParleyMint's interview with Ohtani-san on his Sonic music (interview/article not by me. Just a cool stuff to mention here)

 2019.03.16
ACT. Naka-san on Hisashi Suzuki-san's interview

 2019.02.21
ACT. Famitsu on TSR (4): Team Sonic Racing's new stage "Hidden Volcano" revealed!

2018


2018.12.12
ACT. Famitsu on TSR (3): Team Dr. Eggman & new stage "Doctor's Mine" revealed! 


2018.09.12
ACT. Famitsu on TSR (2): Team Vector, Ice Mountain, Adventure Mode!

2017

2017.11.02
ACT. #EGGMANCHANNEL?! Sonic Channel takeover by Dr. Eggman!2017.08.18

ACT. Sonic Mania Release Interview with Tee Lopes by Jun Senoue!

 2017.06.23
ACT. Sonic's birthday & Sonic Forces info! Tomoya Ohtani’s Sound Column translated

2017.06.14
ACT. Interview with Iizuka-san and Nakamura-san by Famitsu at E3 2017


2017.06.14
ACT. Gamer’s interview with Iizuka-san and Nakamura-san at E3 for Mania and Forces





2017.04.18
ACT. Sonic Forces Interview with Iizuka-san by Famitsu

2016

2016.11
ACT. [NDW] Sonic 25th Birthday Anniversary - Sonic Team Talk Sessions (translating)

2016.06.24
ACT. [Famitsu] Sonic 25th Anniversary Interview with Sonic Team Legends

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2019/04/07

[OFFICIAL MATERIALS ZONE]

Welcome to the Official Materials Zone!
(wanted: a better name)


Here you'll find links to various posts with translations of Japanese official materials such as official webpage contents, commercials, game manual, strategy guides and more.

If you have anything you want to be translated from Japanese to English, comment here! Since this is a free-time hobby project, it usually takes some time, but suggestions for materials are always welcome.

 TABLE OF SONIC SERIES GAMES by me
Sortable after names, release dates of each region, playstyle etc.
I made it for myself, but feel free to take it as a reference.



ACT. ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ - Sonic the Hedgehog




ACT. ソニックアドバンス3 - Sonic Advance 3





ACT. ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (2006) - Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)






ACT. ソニックと暗黒の騎士 - Sonic and the Black Knight





ACT. チームソニックレーシング - Team Sonic Racing



ACT. マリオ&ソニックAT東京2020オリンピック - Mario & Sonic AT 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
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2019/03/16

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.






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.

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2019/03/05

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!
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2017/03/22

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!



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.

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)

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2017/03/21

Short History of SonicJPNews

2017.03.20 - now

The following tweets were the starting point of SonicJPNews.





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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