About
I'm a college student from the San Francisco Bay Area who subs things. I'm a translator active on the r/LoveLive Discord server and a contributor to BSeiyuu. My original YouTube channel named "zura" with around 1,341 subscribers was deleted on August 13th, 2021 due to copyright strikes. I restarted YouTube activities on August 16th following the release of Nijiyon Season 4 Episode 13 as にじよん Nijiyon Translations but all Nijiyon videos were taken down by Bandai Namco Arts on November 7th, 2021 and the channel was deleted by YouTube.
I've never taken the JLPT but I earned a score of 5 on the College Board's Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture Exam.
I take commissions for text, audio, and video. You can contact me on Discord at zura#3395, Twitter Direct Messages or email at zura3395@protonmail.com.
I was in Hanamaru's section (yellow) when the first AqouRainbow happened in 2018:
【World Love Live! in LA】Thank you for coming to "LOVELIVE! SUNSHINE!! Aqours World Love Live! in LA ~Beyond the Pacific~" today! We got such a surprise today from you all!! We look forward to returning to America again!! Thank you so much! Do your Rubesty!! #lovelive pic.twitter.com/HJGxpEt210
— ラブライブ！シリーズ公式 (@LoveLive_staff) July 5, 2018
Tech stuff
Relevant software
- youtube-dl-gui (for downloading videos)
- AegisubDC ("official" Aegisub has been abandoned)
- Handbrake (for encoding all videos)
- ffmpeg (for when I need to do something Handbrake can't)
- VSDC Free Video Editor (too broke for Adobe Premiere Pro and too lazy to configure Davinci Resolve)
- mpv (for playing video files extremely quickly)
- VLC media player (for when I don't want to search how to use mpv)
- GitHub Desktop (for subtitle file management and backup)
- Visual Studio Code (for managing the files for this website)
Desktop
- CPU: Intel Core i5-7400
- RAM: Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3200 32 GB (2x16GB) (Running at DDR4-2400 due to CPU and chipset limitations)
- GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
- Monitor: Acer XFA240 bmjdpr 24" (Primary), Acer Nitro VG240Y Pbiip 24" (Secondary, on left)
- Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Specturm
- Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile RAPIDFIRE (Cherry MX Low Profile Speed switches)
- Audio: SteelSeries Arctis 7P headset (the original non-Plus Micro USB version), Yamaha YST-MS50 speakers (from like the early 2000s), and assorted bundled earbuds