Takayuki Karahashi - Anime Convention Personality of the Week - Sept. 13, 1999 |
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 This may be
the quietest of any of the personalities honored on this page - until you
sit him down with a group of translators. Takayuki Karahashi is one of
the most prominent anime translators in the business, handling jobs for
Viz and other companies. You'll see him with his trademark cap and beard
at conventions, sitting at the head tables with leading artists. Sometimes
he'll be sitting by a telephone, as at Animazement '99 when he interpreted
the phone calls that director Yasuhiro Imagawa made from Japan. Karahashi
doesn't say much on his own when he translates for others, but he was extremely
outspoken when he appeared with other translators at an Anime Central '99
panel. It turns out that the small fraternity of anime translators doesn't
agree with each other all the time. |
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Animazement '98 with Yasuhiro Imagawa |
With publisher Toshifumi Inagawa |
At Animazement '99's opening |
Translating for Yuu Watase |
With Toshifumi Imagawa's stand-in |
Emphatic at Anime Central '99 |
