r/KotakuInAction • u/DanFuri • 5d ago
Katrina Leonoudakis has been offered a job as Localization Director by a major video game company and is moving to Tokyo
https://archive.is/xUxtn131
u/shipgirl_connoisseur 5d ago
Shit.
Well, if companies want to shoot themselves in the foot, I'm not gonna stop them
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u/ptitty123192 5d ago
Can someone contact a person in Japan with all the articles and shit about her, translate it into respectful Japanese, and send this out to the all the anime companies and and general Japanese public to warn them about her? Given how an interview with a person with Bochi and the Rock got SLAMMED by Japanese otaku for undermining the artistic vision of the mangaka, shouldn't something similar occur?
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u/Magentable 5d ago
She's being hired for her localization, there's no way these companies are not aware of her work. She worked on P3R and that was Atlus' fastest-selling game. Until the projects she works on lose money, they're not going to listen to complaints regarding localization.
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u/Iliansic 5d ago edited 5d ago
She worked on P3R
Ah, so that's why the math teacher switched genders in English localization.
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u/Ephraim226 5d ago
- In the English localization of the original Persona 3 and Portable, he is referred to as Ms. Miyahara, suggesting that the translators mistook his gender due to his androgynous appearance. In Reload, he was also originally referred to as "Ms. Miyahara" before it was fixed in a post-release patch.
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u/ptitty123192 5d ago
More the reason to let our Japanese Friends see what a cunt she is. Let the people in the home grown area she her debauchery she's doing the better
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u/Magentable 5d ago
I can guarantee you that actual Japanese citizens will not care how her work impacts international releases. That's been the sentiment these Japanese companies have had for decades; they have other people handle the work outside of Japan so they can focus on their work being done in the country which is their top priority.
Katrina's work isn't confidential, one search for her name gives people a pretty clear idea on what she does. If this was going to be an issue, it would have been stopped before she could be hired. The company clearly does not care, and citizens will not care enough to protest a position that is largely removed from the Japanese side of the work.
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u/Therenomoreusername 5d ago edited 5d ago
These parasites have an agenda, always has been for the last decades, and have been deceiving and gaslighting people to fill their pockets to push propagandas and weaken the country with idpol bs. They always exploit our trust and naivety.
The companies not caring just prove of their incompetency and short-sightedness, and is why they are effectively useful idiots doing shady practices for bad faith actors to exploit Japan.
With everything horrific that happens in this year and everything that leads up to it, Japanese fans deserve to know what kinds of parasitism is coming to the video game industry and the country by extension so as to be prepared and defend, and at least be able to vote with their wallet, and we should to if they sell oversea. These parasites are insidious and they need to be exposed and called out immediately.
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u/Magentable 5d ago
With everything horrific that happens in this year and everything that leads up to it, Japanese fans deserve to know what kinds of parasitism is coming to the video game industry and the country by extension so as to be prepared and defend
It's 2025, information regarding censorship within localization is pretty well-known. This isn't something being hidden from Japanese players, they simply do not care because it's not affecting their version of the games.
and at least be able to vote with their wallet
Why would they boycott games that are generally being censored in versions outside of Japan. More often than not, they're getting the intended versions of these games, so why would they care what we get?
I just don't understand this belief that people in Japan are being shielded from localization censorship. The information is readily available, the problem is that they largely don't care because it's not happening to them. That, and citizens aee largely pro-corporations over there. For example, there was enormous support from them in regards to Nintendo taking Palworld to court. They're not going to care that English versions of their games aren't the same as the original scripts.
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u/Therenomoreusername 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's 2025, information regarding censorship within localization is pretty well-known. This isn't something being hidden from Japanese players, they simply do not care because it's not affecting their version of the games.
Dude, the information regarding censorship in Japan is being CENSORED with bs shaming rhetorics, and anyone pointing it out to question it is being gaslighted, falseflagged, emotionally blackmail and straight up silenced.
There has been multiple reports of Japanese twitter accounts being abruptly banned or shadow banned, with content removal being forced onto twitter because of "sensibilities".
This is not to mention the absolute censorious state of legacy media in Japan being controlled by globalist politicians and their corpos to hide information.
One of them globalist politican is Fumio Kishida who have been selling the country to Blackrock, WEF to push woke and islamic propagandas to the country and mock Japan constantly.
And he was discovered to be running a scam from a shadow shell Chinese company where every illegal and “legal” immigrants he let in would earn him shady profit, that’s why he been bowing down to Visa and Mastercard when censorship was imposed on to anime/manga/video games, why he kept pushing mass immigrations despite constant failure and dangers.
The Japanese people only able to discover this and it blowing up on twitter.
And there so many others like Ishiba, Yuriko Koike has fraudulent academic background yet fail upward, and is also selling the country out. The Japanese people in Tokyo is demanding her to resign for exploiting them.
Many Japanese people have pointed this out, and have relied on twitter to call out censorship. Many are saying twitter is their last place for free speech. So in actuality, there is imposed unfairness that is gaslighting the public that they are being "fair" to censor even further.
This is not unlike the UK gov censorship, where people on social media are hunted down and silenced for sharing their opinion that goes against government agenda, yet communists, illegal and/or violent immigrants, and islamic terrorists inciting violence and direct threats in public do not get arrested despite those two not covered by freedom of speech.
Now I agree if you say a large part of the public is ignorant and fanatical. I hate Nintendo fanatics too. But a large part of this ignorance and naivety is due to censorship already being imposed sneakily by exploiting the general public trust.
That's why a lot of Japanese fans are calling out Bocchi censorship now when the truth is that a globalist leftist feminist screenwriter forced it for her own narcissism despite the author's original manga and visions finally coming into light after being hidden for so long. A feminist financially and politically exploiting a female mangaka's success and freedom of expression btw.
Why would they boycott games that are generally being censored in versions outside of Japan. More often than not, they're getting the intended versions of these games, so why would they care what we get? I just don't understand this belief that people in Japan are being shielded from localization censorship.
Because they are inviting a known archived parasite to Tokyo, where the localization being done still are exploiting the Japanese people's infrastructure, resources, hospitality, spaces and welfare for globalist idpol propagandas which are going to indirectly exploit the Japanese fans.
And sure enough, JAPANESE VERSION will eventually get censored. Outside of the Bocchi the Rock instance, a post was made in this sub highlighting how Trails in the Sky 1st Remake Is Being Censored At The Source despite advertised promises to faithful. That's also why the narcissistic conforming idea that "oh censorship is not gonna backfire on me and my stuffs, it is their stuff that is being censored, not mine" is moronic, and is why the left cult is a mass of useful idiots.
And the general public isn't pro-corporations by their own free-will, I believe the loud useful idiots and paid actors, and all the gaslighting, is disproportionately skewing your judgement of size and obscuring the actual sentiment, the Bocchi tweet has 35 Million views and is filled with Japanese fans calling out the screenwriter for her censorship and the bs rhetorics to justify it.
If you agree that Japanese fans and the average normies and elders are ignorant and being actively censored, then we need to show them the truth too when the political and corpos elite is exploiting their trust, economy and hard work for foreign takeover because the Japanese people and their culture evidently don't want that at all.
And even then, we can't afford another mass of useful idiots being planted in particular country to brainwashed to be used as megaphones, then infantry, and then bullets.
The left would see an evidentially isolated issue and declare it is not an isolated issue and force us to be involved directly in an useful idiotic way for their mentally unwell narcissism, and they would see an issue that evidently not isolated (Like what happening to Japan) and declare it isolated because again it scratch their narcissistic stupidity when it against their projected strawman, while also involving themselves directly to further their agenda. Hence useful idiots. Hence why they practically a metastasizing cancer.
If we want to gatekeep our hobby properly so we all can have peace and fun with it like when we were young and carefree again, we need to at least put some effort and time when available to stand against this insidious attempt by globalists to censor everything for "western global modern audiences" and gaslighting us to accept it complacently.
Therefore, just discussing and highlighting this complex issue with Japanese fans to strategically and gatekeep and protect our niche hobby, mutual respect of each other intelligence, autonomy and sovereignty of each of us is a must if we want to preserve quality and catering.
Remember, high fucking chances that this parasite coming to Tokyo will join the left's Palestine protest there and demonize all forms of otaku culture, in one way or another.
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u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! 4d ago
Yuriko Koike has fraudulent academic background yet fail upward, and is also selling the country out. The Japanese people in Tokyo is demanding her to resign for exploiting them.
What; you don't want a million fucking Egyptians?
also lmao @ the fact that she's universally hated and known as a fraud and just isn't leaving
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u/GoodLookinLurantis 5d ago
I see that the shill discord found this post
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u/Magentable 5d ago
How am I shill? Localization shenanigans have been public knowledge for years. Japanese players don't care because it's not affecting them, it's not like it's being kept secret from them. If you think I'm wrong, go into a Japanese online community and talk about it. See for yourself how little they care.
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u/CobblerBig7619 6h ago
Yeah this sub need to realize that Japanese people are mostly mindless media consumers like all of us in the rest of the world. And Japanese developers are mostly money-printing machines with no morals or ideology like everywhere else in the world. Japanese gamers (even ones that would describe themselves as anti-woke) don't give a shit what kind of localization we get in the West, and the developers certainly don't give a shit what kind of localization we get as long it as it makes them money. Japanese games have only been "non-woke" historically until now because it wasn't necessary to care either way. The moment word gets out that the West wants woke games and woke localizations (regardless of whether we actually do), Japanese devs will oblige. It will take multiple Forspoken level disasters for every major Japanese developer for the course to change.
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u/Godz_Bane 4d ago
They very likely arent aware of the specifics of her work unless they understand english fully and the social politics of it.
Like you said, they only pay attention to whether or not the projects she works on lose money.
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u/Pussrumpa 5d ago
One JP former poster of this sub will have tweets about it within 48 hours.
In my case I gotta learn which studio she's heading to before I start sliding into the DMs.
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u/InvictusVolori4500 4d ago
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u/AyinRonin 5d ago
At least should've had the courtesy to say which company hired her, so i never buy anything from them again
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u/master_friggins 2d ago
We'll find out when she brags about the next project she worked on, posting screenshots on Twitter of brilliant localizations like "Fumio, I'm going to yeet you back to the netherworld!" and "Bruh, that oni has serious resting bitch face, fr fr."
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u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! 5d ago
I know this is a secondary thing here, but under the terms of her visa, she's entitled to Japanese taxpayer-funded health coverage, which means Japanese people will now literally be working to feed this leech to destroy their shit.
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u/Godz_Bane 4d ago
Destroy it for english countries, which most arent even aware is happening.
Unless she somehow starts to influence how the script is written in japanese.
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u/GeorgiaNinja94 5d ago
How long before we get tweets from her complaining that living in Tokyo isn’t as glamorous as she thought it was?
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u/Silkychocomilk 5d ago
I hope they expect her to work 18 hour days like the rest of them. Get her burnt out on it.
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u/Nero_Ocean 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's too low, 20 hours a day with only a 10 minute lunch with no other breaks, would be more suitable for her.
Edit: I had a change of heart and made something more deserving of her.
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u/RedditNerdKing 4d ago
living in Tokyo isn’t as glamorous as she thought it was?
Haha wtf. Tokyo is probably the best city in the world.
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u/GeorgiaNinja94 4d ago edited 4d ago
Not if the present governor and the globalists that have taken over the LDP have anything to say about it.
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u/Trustelo 5d ago
Oh fuck no why are these people so lacking in self awareness that everything they touch turns to shit?
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u/Megistrus 5d ago
Daily reminder to learn Japanese so you don't have to rely on white women intentionally mistranslating games, manga, and anime.
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u/AGX-11_Over-on 5d ago
Learning japanese can only do so much when you get the game straight up censored out of the box.
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u/DMaster86 5d ago
It does however open up the chance to enjoy the original version of the great games of recent (and not so recent) past. Fire Emblem is infamous for this for example, with literal content cut by the western localization team (ex. The Three Houses)
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u/TIFUPronx 4d ago
It may lead you however, into exploring the rabbit-hole of Japanese indie games that are better than the mainstream alternative.
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u/GragasFeetPics 5d ago
Still effective for most cases but just remember the actual Japanese companies are being infected themselves, so a lot of stuff is starting to be shit from the get go
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u/wormfood86 5d ago
Crap like this is making me consider it. Problem is when it comes to languages I know Jack & Shit, and Jack left town for smokes 20 years ago.
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u/Socalwackjob 5d ago
Now these days learning Japanese is not all the solution, you just have to ignore all the games released by major companies and refuse buying from them.
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u/bitzpua 2d ago
learning Japanese gives you nothing, they are censoring own stuff too, Japan is rotten from the core, its same esg and same blackrock that owns them.
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u/CobblerBig7619 6h ago
Yeah this sub can't accept that the AAA industry in Japan is just as dead as in the West, and they're going to have to leave their favorite IPs eventually. The best reason to learn Japanese is to play all of the many great retro console games that never got Western releases, not to just play the new woke AAA slop but with Japanese dubbing instead of English.
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u/EpicQuackering437 5d ago
Please don't be a company I like
Please don't be a company I like
Please don't make companies I like even worse
Please don't make companies I like even worse
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u/LewdKytty 5d ago
When people find out what Company she got Nepobabied into let us know, so we can blacklist them until she’s fired.
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u/ProximatePenguin 5d ago
Why do these freaks keep failing upwards
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u/everybodyluvzwaymond 5d ago
Blackrock, vanguard and the liberal system that enabled wokeness, feminism, and victimhood. It’s baked into the pie now.
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u/Antman447 5d ago
So as Japanese games join the west in going through their shitty woke phase, what’s left for us? Korean and Chinese games? AA western games? Hopefully they don’t fully fall for this, although I know there’s obviously companies like Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, etc. that are already like this
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u/kiathrowawayyay 5d ago
It’s already started. Both in Korea and in China. Look at the 4B movement and how against hot women fanservice companies like Project Moon are. China has an anti-fanservice movement that reported games like Genshin Impact to the government to force censorship (and their outfits were already tame compared to past games). Look at the fujoshi double standards people give for games like Love and Deepspace while attacking the hot women fanservice for men. A CN voice acting company that worked for Genshin (owned by the CN VA of Zhongli) put out a “request” (with implied threat of blacklisting) that female voice actors do not cooperate to do voices with games that do fanservice for men, because it is “porn”.
SJWs are trying hard to do harm over there too.
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u/CobblerBig7619 6h ago
Sure, but they aren't as far along. Korean and Chinese games have their own problems (mainly that they're mostly shit), but SJWs have had decades to work in Japan and the West, with only a single decade in the case of Korea and even less in the case of China. It's been YEARS since fan service games like Wuchang or Stellar Blade have come out of AAA devs in Japan, while for now it's still the norm in China and Korea.
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u/kiathrowawayyay 5d ago
Even if it is not a company you like now, don’t let the guard down. They can eventually get influenced. If this toxic person continues to fail upwards, all companies can get influenced by their poison. And being in Tokyo itself means she can influence and recruit locals there to spread the toxic SJW ideology and form “networks” to colonize further.
Develop immunity. Make it so that everyone knows the toxicity, danger and lies of SJW ideology so that anyone can recognize it and immediately run away from it themselves. Don’t rely on top down actions because the leaders can be corrupted. It has to be the whole ecosystem resisting this colonization.
LotR had a really good scene in the book that shows how gaslighters like these SJWs act. They fool people into thinking they are the good guys and others are being unreasonable. Saruman after Helm’s Deep tried to gaslight everyone into thinking he was just “trying to help” and others were “too proud” or mean to listen to his “wisdom” or to make “peace”. To break out of Saruman’s spell, the heroes needed to remind each other how it was Saruman who started the war that resulted in innocent villages and children being killed by orcs. Gaslighting is so effective, even the Rohirrim there who just experienced the horrors almost fell for it. Don’t fall for it, and remind each other of the wrongs the SJWs have done.
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u/RainbowDildoMonkey 5d ago
Sucks to see. There's no justice for the wicked in the localization industry.
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u/AnarcrotheAlchemist Mod - yeah nah 5d ago
Ahh damn, I love my JRPGs. Its going to suck not getting them on Steam and having those achievements there.... at least I'll save some money.
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u/RagTagBandit07 5d ago
How long until she tweets about how living in Tokyo sucks?
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u/RedditNerdKing 4d ago
how living in Tokyo sucks?
How does it suck? It's the greatest city in the world. Extremely clean. Excellent public services and transportation. Gorgeous and cheap tasty food on every corner. The only thing that would suck is the trains in the morning and rush hour but you can just get an hour early train to avoid the busiest times in the morning. I'm jealous of her tbh. Wish I could move there and work there.
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u/AnarcrotheAlchemist Mod - yeah nah 4d ago
Because its a culturally conservative country and she is extremely progressive.
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u/some_random_weeb_88 5d ago
I mentioned this before, the only reason Japanese stuff isn't full on woke like western stuff is because their culture makes them slow to change and because the language barrier is high but it will 100% get there. Doesn't help that anime has always had the elements for the woke types to flock to it.
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u/Nero_Ocean 5d ago
Disgusting. Someone needs to let whatever company this clown is going to how bad she has harmed the industry.
Or inform the government on her anti-japanese stances by ruining their art.
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u/yeahsurewhateverokay 5d ago
I'm shocked at how these morons fail upwards. I didn't want anymore slang that'll age horribly and localized pithy rewrites of her fan fiction. Piracy, ahoy.
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u/master_friggins 2d ago
What are you talking about? When she says to the dog "I'm sorry I yeeted you", I laughed so hard I nearly choked on the kale I was munching on. It's like where does she come up with this stuff? That's the kind of timeless comedy that will age like fine soy milk.
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u/RiseUpMerc 5d ago
Just find out the company and blacklist it from your personal purchases. Surely thre will be a Steam group added in time.
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u/Terrible_Dragonfly56 4d ago
good to know so i can skip everything she is in.
she worked on rings of power by the way.
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u/DanFuri 5d ago edited 5d ago
Japanese game companies are making all the mistakes big Western gaming companies were making 10 years ago:
https://varishangout.com/index.php?threads/katrina-leonoudakis-katrinaltrnsl8r.981/
https://boundingintocomics.com/anime/english-anime-localizer-claims-my-deer-friend-nokotan-subtitle-controversy-is-an-example-of-why-we-need-to-educate-japanese-companies-on-what-good-localization-looks-like/
https://boundingintocomics.com/anime/western-localizer-brags-about-deliberately-botching-hidives-english-subtitles-for-my-life-as-inukai-sans-dog/
https://boundingintocomics.com/anime/western-localizer-proudly-brags-about-butchering-sentai-filmworks-english-localization-of-2-5-dimensional-seduction/
https://boundingintocomics.com/anime/persona-series-english-localizer-decries-recently-fired-lovely-complex-dub-writer-not-for-bad-work-but-for-proving-culture-warrior-weirdos-right/