MORE THAN WORDS
If Players Notice the Translation, Something Went Wrong
We make sure your writing hits just as hard in Japanese or English. That means keeping character voices consistent, jokes actually funny, UI clear, terminology aligned, and timing your emotional beats so they land the way they should.
Our bilingual creatives work from the context of the game, not just the line in front of them, so dialogue, lore, items, menus, and story all feel like they belong to the same world.
YOUR GAME HAS A VOICE
It's More Than Just a Spreadsheet
A line can look perfectly fine in a spreadsheet and fall apart once it belongs to a character, quest, menu, or scene. Then, awkward dialogue, confusing item descriptions, or jokes that don’t land pull players straight out of the world. Worse? They might assume you didn’t care... when the real issue was a rushed or tone-deaf localization.
That’s why we translate with the whole game in mind, not just the text in front of us.
OUR SERVICE
Japanese-English Game Translation Services
Our game translators handle everything players see (and a lot they don’t). From dialogue to UI strings, from store blurbs to subtitle timing, we make sure every line feels like it belongs.
Dialogue & Narrative
Fully contextualized character writing, branching logic, and story beats.
UI & Menus
Menus, buttons, error messages all translated with space constraints and player logic in mind.
Marketing & Store Assets
App store blurbs, Steam pages, and descriptions that sell your game to new markets.
Trailer Subtitles
Timed subtitles that don’t step on your pacing, readability, or tone.
🎙️ Taking Your Localized Script Into the Recording Booth?
We also handle Japanese-English Game Voice Over Localization, from casting through final recording.
A PERFECT FIT
Your Workflow,
Your Way.
We know your pipeline is king. Maybe you need a few last-minute lines turned around fast. Maybe you want a game translation team that can stay with the project from first script to final build. Either way, we fit around the way your team already works.
THE PROCESS
Our Skills, Your Workflow
Game localization rarely happens in a neat little window. Scripts change, builds move, and new lines appear when nobody asked them to. We work around your development schedule and keep the translation moving with it.
1
Tell Us What You’re Building
Hop on a 60-minute video call with us or sit down face-to-face on our home turf! Tell us about your world, your workflow, and what your dream localization team needs to do for you. We’ll listen, learn, and figure out where we can plug in without slowing you down.
2
Drop the Lore, We’ll Catch It
No text exists in a vacuum and we know every word of your source had effort and care poured into it. Before we get started, we learn all we can about your world, characters, terms, and vision, so we can hit the ground running.
3
Translation: Telling Your Story
Our game translators don’t hermit themselves away into separate lairs and send their work back when they’re done. By the time your text has been translated, each key phrase, dad joke, and poignant soliloquy has been discussed and dissected by our language team in real time. Punchlines stay sharp, drama lands, and nothing sounds like it came from a dictionary. Most importantly, your story doesn’t get flattened somewhere between Japanese and English.
4
Review: Getting it Right
We check it and check it again for good measure! Every line is checked by a second linguist who wasn’t on the first pass, with CAT tools helping us catch terminology inconsistencies along the way. Typos, logic gaps, tone slips. We catch them before you do.
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Delivery & Follow-Up
We’ll send the files, but that’s not the end. Need a tweak? A reworded quest line? Something weird broke after integration? You’ve still got us. Just say the word.
合同会社ボーナス・ステージはバイリンガルなエキスパートが集まったゲーム・ローカライゼーションを専門とするチームです。
Bonus Stage is a bilingual game localization agency helping developers bring their stories to new players.