“I am not a ninja. I’m just an average high school girl” – Shinobu

When you are translating a series, you tend to end up appreciating a series more than usual because you get to pick up a lot more than you do on your first read through. Here is my (uber long) post-translation overview of the adorable ninja girl series.

1. Prelude

Ninja Shinobu’s Pure Heart (Ninja Shinobu-san no Junjou) by Yuzuchiri is the heartwarming tale of ninja Shinobu using her awkward methods to get her boy Hitoyoshi, and along the way learning about friendship, love, and the true meaning of being together with someone.

As those who followed the series from the beginning are already aware, the series was recently completed at a record pace thanks to our good friends at Meraki Scans. I was the translator for the whole series, and also the one that proposed the series to the group in the first place. It also happens to be my first project that I managed to translate the final chapter, and the first series I translated completely from start to finish. (which is actually sad given how long I’ve been translating…)

Now that the scanlation is over, I figured I’ll share how all came to be, my overall thoughts on series, and any little tidbits about translating the work.

Be warned, this is quite long 😛 (but the pictures are pretty…. i think)

Table of Contents

The “review” is organized as above. As usual, all sections will contain light spoilers, but the “Series Review” and “Translation Quirks” will delve in more details, so avoid them if you don’t want to be completely spoiled.

For the sane people who don’t wanna go through all the mess, the last section should be a decent enough TL;DR.