Alexandra Owen-Burns

🇯🇵🇬🇧 translator working on light novels, VNs, and manga🟣🍬
Earl and Fairy, Otome Daoshi, Your Meteor, NPCs in this Village Sim, etc.!
ラノベなどの翻訳者です！日本語OK!

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

I am HUGELY excited to announce that I now have a website for my translation work! -> https://t.co/4Om9OKyt65
Courtesy of https://t.co/Sh7znV9qgo who were amazing throughout. Thank you so much! 😊

[♪ Rara♪ @RaraSensei]

Morning bread factory

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

Light novels get adapted into manga, but I was wondering if it happens the other way around?
I'd guess not, or not often, since you'd need a LOT of manga volumes for one LN volume.
But I was just fantasizing how beautiful the prose in an LN version of Your Meteor would be...

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

What advice do people have for people starting out in loc?
Mine's always to remember a lot of anxieties around how you come off to clients is because you're YOU, living YOUR life - to clients, you're one of many freelancers, and they'll be more forgiving to you than you think :)

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

Wondering who people's strangest friendships are in TomoLife?
On my island, Utapri Natsuki gets on great from Gob from Arrested Development.
Lavi from Your Meteor bonded with the singing zombie from RE9 over drinking blood (though I guess that actually makes sense)

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

ハイド・パークのサーペンタイン湖です！
ケルピーは見ませんでしたが、もしかしてスコットランドにいたかもしれません。

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@otomeaddicted Gotta get around to playing these. Always appreciate recs! 🫡

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

Although I only translated volume 3 of When a Clueless First-Person Shooter Player Falls into Another World, so it'll be a bit of a wait, I'm looking forward to the audiobook!

Also, I was admiring the English logo the other day. I think it's really cool!

[Seven Seas Entertainment @gomanga]

Brand-new license announcement! WHEN A CLUELESS FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER PLAYER FALLS INTO ANOTHER WORLD (AUDIOBOOK) by Jiraigen and UGUME, narrated by Mark Sanderlin. An FPS gamer falls into a fantasy world—manga also from Seven Seas! #SevenSeasSiren

https://t.co/DgM2xNzjNf

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

ハイドパークの地図です。
Serpentineが真ん中を通っています！

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

ハイドパークのアルバート記念碑です！
これ以上近づいていかなくて、今さらですが少し後悔しています...

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

From the Pokemon x Natural History Museum pop-up shop :)

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@RaraSensei お大事に！

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@RaraSensei 🫂

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

This is kind of me on music 🙈
I download lots of music because I like it, but if you asked me about my favourite band member or album or anything contextual I won't be able to answer haha
I just liked the song!

[on/machutan🍔touhoufest 2026 @machudigipak]

a customer brought a bocchi blind box and told me “I LOVE BOCCHI! Do you like bocchi?”

i told her i did, but the box set didn’t have my fav character, she asked who it was, I said kikuri

“who’s that?”
“The drunk one with a bass”
“oh is she the yellow one with the ponytail?”
😐

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

ロンドン自然史博物館🦖

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@Hatsuu shrappy shranniversary shrek!

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

This isn't sponsored in any way but I love bears so if anyone is ever in Izu please visit the Teddy Bear Museum on my behalf thank you 🙏

[伊豆テディベア・ミュージアム【公式】 @izuteddy]

🧸＼本日発売／🧸
毎年人気の「ベアボトル」が今年も登場しました🥤✨

ころんと可愛いクマのボトルに、
爽やかなドリンクを入れてご用意しました🥤🍋🍎🍊☕️

並べても可愛い♪
写真を撮っても可愛い♪
これからの季節にぴったりの限定ドリンクです☀️

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@sarasarahT Right, that's the word I was looking for xD

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

One I had recently was "body bag" or ボディーバッグ. Translating that one straight up would have caused a lot of confusion in what was otherwise a very peaceful slice of life scene 😬
(It's a bag worn over the body, often a small rucksack)

[Neil Broadley, SaGa Localization Director @SaGa_NeilB]

Saw a comment from someone saying that if they can hear an EN word in the JP voices, it must be a mistranslation if that word isn’t in the EN translation/voice over. Sometimes maybe, but not always, as not all EN loan words have the same meaning in JP and EN. (1/2)

[Alexandra Owen-Burns @Alexandra_O_B]

@SaGa_NeilB I have to catch myself and stop myself assuming for a lot of waseigo, especially for the words that seem the most innocuous...