Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20161012002602

Sorry this took so long! I asked a few (other) translators to look over this document, and a few of them weren't able to sit down and look it over right away. Combining that with some pressing real life issues meant things got extended way past the point where the document was actually complete.

I asked three people who understand Japanese and are intimately familiar with the series to check it out, because though I trust in my own translations I wanted to be thorough in the information and cultural context present in the document! The simplicity of most of the terminology used means that even if you doubt something, Google Translate actually reliably has your back.

Though I didn't go to the effort of creating a citation page at the end of the document, I do link to my citations where they apply! If necessary, I am willing to provide pictures of the Japanese manga to show lines in question! There's only one example where I won't be able to do this, and it's because I only have the physical volume of the manga and not the initial SHONEN JUMP printing of it. In that one, you're gonna have to take my word (and a Japanese forum post with a transcript) for it.

While my initial goal was simply to document usage of gendered terms, I realized quickly that context and critical analysis was necessary. As a result, the document is quite long. I am not interested in cutting it down, as I feel it's necessary to be accurate even at the expense of brevity.

I won't ask anyone to read through the entire thing, but I will ask that you do so if you intend on dismissing my arguments. I feel I've been pretty thorough in my documentation of the series and analysis of the text, but I won't pretend I'm infallible in this regard.

All of this is explained in the beginning of the document, but I want to say it right out for people who just... don't want to dig through it:

The beginning of the document, after the foreward and discussion of which materials I'm citing, is the actual documentation of and explanation of the words used. Chapter (and corresponding episode) and page are cited, and only the Japanese version of the text is being considered. Excluding one instance, all analysis is after the citation of terminology. There will be a few cases where I explain a linguistic phenomenon directly after it appears, but otherwise it's a straight list of terminology from page 6 until page 13.

So, here's the document.

Thanks for your time!