Nob Ogasawara

Nob Ogasawara

Nob Ogasawara (Japanese: 小笠原伸幸 Ogasawara Nobuyuki; born February 27, 1962) is a freelance translator. He is most famous for translating the text of every game in the core series up until Pokémon Platinum.

In September 2008, it was discovered he would no longer be the translator for Pokémon titles.

Pokémon game credits

Text Translation

• Pokémon Red and Blue
• Pokémon Yellow
• Pokémon Gold and Silver
• Pokémon Crystal
• Pokémon Stadium 2
• Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
• Pokémon Channel
• Pokémon Colosseum
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
• Pokémon Emerald
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Pokémon Trozei!
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
• Pokémon Ranger
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
• Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
• Pokémon Platinum
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Other

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorer's Guide (uncredited)

Trivia

• Nob Ogasawara's birthdate is the same date on which Pokémon Red and Green were first released in Japan.
• In Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire, there are Black Belts named Nob. Additionally, in FireRed and LeafGreen and Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, there is a Hiker named Nob on Route 25. Nob confirmed via Twitter that his name was assigned to NPC trainers not by him, but by Nintendo of America staff as a reference to him.
• Nob is a known member of the Something Awful forums with the username of Douglas Dinsdale. He also uses the alias Douglas Dinsdale or Doug Dinsdale on other social media. The alias is derived from the names of Monty Python characters Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.
• Nob coined the English names for the Pokémon Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff, Staravia, Staraptor, and Mismagius. He had also suggested the names "Scaribou" for Stantler and "Phantomb" for Spiritomb, although neither of them were accepted.
• Nob had expressed apprehension over Mr. Mime's English name. The name was chosen by Nintendo of America staff during the localization work for Pokémon Red and Blue, and Nob stated that he was worried that the name would cause trouble if gender mechanics were to be introduced later down the line.
• The English names of the Old Chateau and Old Gateau were coined by Nob, intending to preserve the pun in the original Japanese text. According to Nob, he was able to keep the Old Chateau/Old Gateau pun in part due to him being able to give more input in the localization process from Generation III onward.
• According to Nob, he first saw the term Eeveelution "on AGNP (alt.games.nintendo.pokemon; a Usenet group) or a spin-off AIM chatroom", and decided to adopt it for his translations because he deemed it useful. Also according to Nob, the Pokémon English localization team adopted the ^P_K^M_N abbreviation for "Pokémon" from a Chinese bootleg copy of Pokémon Red.
• The Game Boy Pocket used by Nob Ogasawara was auctioned off in a charity auction for TheSpeedGamers's June 2014 Pokémon marathon. The auction was won by Bulbagarden webmaster Archaic.

External links

• Nob Ogasawara's Twitter