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Changelog & Updates

And while I'm here, I figure now is as good a time as any to make a personal announcement.

I (Jakkal, the mod, and thus the SnakebrainTL account and the Phanto.MOE website) will likely be AFK for the month of August. The reason for this: I'm moving to Japan.

For the short term: starting from August 1st (JST), things will slow down as I focus on moving internationally. I will still attempt to translate tweets and other social media content as quickly as I can, but things may be slower. If I get too backlogged on tweets, I will simply resume when I have the time, and all "missed" tweets will go up in the monthly tweet archive on September 1st.
Things that are substantially more intensive than a tweet (magazines, comics, shorter dramas, character interviews, et al) released during this time may be delayed an unknown amount, though it will be high-priority backlog.

In the long term: The only major, persistent change is that drama CDs may have their translations delayed until the weekend following their release. The logic here is simply that drama CDs tend to drop mid-week and take, like, six or seven hours of work. Because I will be using Japanese in my daily life, instead of just as a hobby, I anticipate that I may not want to come back from my day job using Japanese and then spend multiple weeknights on intensive Japanese translation, lol.
Other things that release at midnight (for example, magazines) may also be delayed by up to a day, just because as it will be less convenient for me to buy them at midnight and translate until 2 AM JST.
On the other hand, this may make some things more accessible to me -- I certainly have plans to try for Dope Box for example, so I may be able to ~*report from the scene*~ -- but overall I do not expect this to impact the day-to-day operations of my translation projects.

Things that release within the month of July, including the FUTURE drama tracks, should not be affected by this. I just wanted to give everyone plenty of lead time on this! I do not anticipate that this will meaningfully change the operation of Phanto.MOE or SnakebrainTL.