Nicole Frasik
Japanese → English Freelance Translator
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I've been translating in the Japanese to English entertainment biz since around 2018. My work experience runs the gamut from all-ages to adult and includes business correspondences, travel brochures, websites, Japanese manga and video games, and everything in-between.
I'd love to put my "punchy" translation style to work on your next knock-out hit!
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Agency-based Projects
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Clients
Vertical
2022-current
Genres: BL, comedy, ecchi, romance, slice-of-life, fantasy
Titles: Perfectly Fine on My Own (So My Fiancé can Twist in the Wind), Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms (Vol. 2+), A Love Too Captivating (Print edition), The Serenade of Spring Thunder (Print edition), Blaze of Flesh and Blood, The Yum Cat (Nmeneko)Kodansha
2022-current
Genres: romance, shojo, slice-of-life
Titles: Gazing at the Star Next Door, Love at First Memory, Kusunoki's Flunking her High School Glow-UpSeven Seas
2020-current
Genres: seinen, ecchi, shojo, comedy, slice-of-life
Titles: Wolf's Daughter: A Werewolf's Tale
His Majesty the Demon King's Housekeeper
Skip and Loafer
Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting GamesIrodori Comics
June 2020 - 2026
Genre: adult, comedy
(Independently-published manga)Local Manga
2018 - 2022
Genres: shoujo, seinen, horror, comedy, slice-of-life, drama
For Kodansha Digital release: Abe-kun's Got Me Now!, Harem Marriage, I'll Be With Them Again Today, Lightning and Romance, My Tentative Name, Our Unlikely Love Story, Saving Sweets for After Hours, We Must Never Fall in Love
Independent: The Perfect Son, Prince Noir (unpublished) by RiruKagura Games
Genre: adult
March 2020-October 2021
Approx. 3,000 lines of code translated/week.
Titles: Kozue's Strange Journey, Scars of SummerWWWave
Genres: adult, seinen, shoujo, shounen
Comic Festa Titles (published on Coolmic through Amimaru).
2018-2021
(40+ titles, all protected under NDA. 10k+ pages)TransPerfect
Genre: business, e-commerce
Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2020
General translation services for press releases, presentations, video game localization.
2018-2020Gengo, Inc.
Genre: general
Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2018
General translation services for press releases, presentations, general correspondence, video game localization. Over one million Japanese characters translated.HIROTEC America
Executive Administrative Assistant
Sept. 2016 - Jan. 2018
Translated meeting minutes, technical presentations, first point of contact for Japanese visitors and Japanese correspondences. (Business-level Japanese required.)
About Me + Testimonials
I've been a lifelong fan of Japanese literature and animation and a student of the language since 2005.I began my freelance career after working for a Hiroshima-based Japanese automotive manufacturer in Michigan. My job duties entailed handling Japanese <=> English correspondence and translating meeting minutes and presentations from Japanese into English and vice-versa.I have been a full-time freelance translator since 2018 working with a wide variety of media, including manga (Kodansha/Shueisha) and video games (Kagura Games).My favorite franchise? It's gotta be Slayers!Testimonials
"It also benefits from a very good translation that went out of its way to find the best words for a situation[...] There's a mildly old-timey feel to the language choices, and that gives the translation an edge over other, similar titles." - Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network review: My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I'm Being Courted by a Beastly Prince"This is all supported by an excellent translation from Nicole Frasik, who throws in antiquated idioms that add to the feel of reading a romance novel." - Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network review: Perfectly Fine on My Own, So My Fiancé Can Twist in the WindScreentoney Awards
(Unofficial awards distributed within the industry)
2026: Modern slang translation expert, for A Love Too Captivating, Perfectly Fine on my Own So My Fiance Can Twist in the Wind, Tiger & DragonCredentials/capacity
JLPT N2
Experience working in business-level JapaneseOver 15k pages of Japanese manga professionally translated.
Daily output: up to 40 pages of manga,
3,000+ Japanese characters per day
Contact
I have an active presence on social media, and I would love to chat about future collaborative opportunities! Please feel free to reach me at the links ↓ below.