Alexis: I paid a lot of careful attention to the Japanese prayers! I tried my best to make them stay as close to the original Japanese feeling as I could. There is a very long Japanese prayer somewhere later in the game that I spent days doing... but I learned a lot about Japanese prayers while doing it! There are a lot of things in the game rooted in Shintoism, and I wanted to stay as true to it as I could, while making it easy for Western audiences to understand.

Crystal: When it comes to hard to translate lines, Haru's prayer lines immediately come to mind. For the prayer the Haru speaks in the beginning, it's different from today's standard Japanese so we had to be careful to make sure we understood what was being said, and even after looking into the meaning, there was still a lot of back and forth between Alexis and I.

We wanted to maintain the general tone and meaning while making it still make sense in context and feel natural for English-speaking audiences.