Replace bracketed text and fictional examples. This file is the required translation authority, not a brainstorming list. Use approved forms exactly unless an entry is marked review.

Authority order

Resolve conflicts in this order unless the project documents a reason to differ:

current source line and complete scene context;
chapter reading order and reveal chronology;
identity, gender, and pronoun ledger;
character/narrator voice guide;
approved names and terminology;
writing-system and wordplay decisions;
title-specific grammar guide;
current target-language draft.

The draft is editable evidence. It never overrules the source.

Global rules

Personal-name order: [given–surname / surname–given / context-dependent].
Romanization system and exceptions: [rule].
Explicit in-game Latin spellings and ruby/readings: [precedence rule].
Honorifics: [retain/remove/contextual policy].
Organization and rank capitalization: [rule].
Typography normalization: [ASCII/full-width, hyphens, acronyms, numerals].
Tag handling: [translate visible text only; preserve tag syntax and IDs].
Production speaker qualifiers: [which suffixes must be removed from display names].
Status meanings: locked, working, review, and deprecated.

Highest-risk identity and alias map

Use this section for rules that cannot safely be represented as blind substitutions.

Entity	Allowed forms	Context rule	Evidence	Status
[Character A]	[formal name]; [nickname]; [title]	[who uses each form and when]	[line/profile IDs]	review
[Inherited title]	[holder A]; [holder B]	Do not normalize earlier scenes to the later holder.	[IDs]	review

Reading and reveal order

Record player-facing order rather than trusting filenames or archive order.

Order	Chapter/route	Unlock prerequisite	Narrator/POV	Time period	Knowledge/reveal boundary
1	[chapter]	[none]	[narrator]	[period]	[what names/identities the reader currently knows]

Identity, pronouns, and speech axes

Do not derive identity from speech style. A male character may use feminine self-reference or endings; a woman may use rough masculine forms. Record these facts independently.

Character/identity	Identity and English pronouns	Japanese self-reference/address	Speech markers	Context/progression	Avoid
[Character]	[man; he/him]	[`アタシ`; `あなた`]	[feminine endings, polished cadence]	[public/private or early/late shift]	[misgendering; caricature]

Required distinctions

Record source concepts that share a word but must remain separate.

Concept A	Concept B	Rule
`白環` — White Ring (organization)	`白い輪` — white ring (ordinary description)	Capitalize only the named organization.
[neutral medical term]	[slur]	Never replace the neutral term with the slur or vice versa.

Characters and names

Source	Required English	Reading / aliases	Status	Usage note	Evidence
港くれは	Kureha Minato	みなとくれは; Kureha	working	Fictional example. Confirm official name order before locking.	DEMO:0004
[source]	[English]	[readings/aliases]	review	[identity, timeline, or usage rule]	[IDs]

Organizations and factions

Source	Required English	Aliases	Status	Usage note	Evidence
白環	White Ring	—	working	Fictional organization; never lowercase as an ordinary object.	DEMO:0100
[source]	[English]	[aliases]	review	[rule]	[IDs]

Places and facilities

Source	Required English	Aliases	Status	Usage note	Evidence
黄昏港	Twilight Harbor	黄昏の港	working	Fictional place. Decide whether the descriptive alias is also a proper name.	DEMO:0010
[source]	[English]	[aliases]	review	[rule]	[IDs]

Items, equipment, abilities, and technical terms

Source	Required English	Short form	Status	Usage note	Evidence
霧信号端末	Fog-Signal Handheld	handheld	working	Fictional device; title case in UI, lowercase short form in prose.	DEMO:0001
[source]	[English]	[short form]	review	[rule]	[IDs]

Titles, ranks, kinship, and role labels

Do not assign one English equivalent globally when the relationship changes by context.

Source	Default	Contextual forms	Rule
先生	[doctor/teacher/name]	[forms]	Determine role and addressee for each speaker/scene.
主任	[chief/supervisor/head nurse]	[forms]	Lock the department-specific title, not the dictionary's first result.
[source]	[default]	[forms]	[rule]

Speaker and asset-label normalization

Raw label	Display name	Rule	Status
`[Name]（少年）`	`[Name]`	Age is production metadata unless dialogue explicitly says it.	working
`[Name]_injured`	`[Name]`	Costume/state suffix must not enter the nameplate.	working
[raw label]	[display]	[rule]	review

Character voice and progression

Describe language a translator can reproduce, not personality alone.

Speaker/narrator	Register and syntax	Vocabulary/address	Public/private or route progression	Avoid
[Character]	[contractions, sentence length, directness, question style]	[titles, second-person forms, recurring diction]	[how the voice changes and what remains stable]	[flattening, gimmicks, invented accent]

Writing-system and wordplay decisions

Audit ruby/furigana mismatches, kanji readings and components, homophones, script switches, name formation, visual glyph contrasts, and recurring lexical networks. Do not force an unproven pun.

Line/evidence	Source mechanism	Story/social function	Strategy	Required treatment	Controlled loss/status
[ID]	[shared kanji with two readings]	[links two identities]	explain once	[retain characters once, then use approved names]	[Latin spelling hides the shared glyph; locked]

Deprecated forms

Deprecated form	Required form	Reason	Search completed
[old spelling]	[approved spelling]	[why it changed]	no

Release-blocking review queue

Priority	Entry	Question	Needed evidence	Owner	Status
high	[name/term]	[specific decision]	[credits, ruby, creator material, context]	[person]	open

Provenance and versioning

Canonical script version/hash: [value]
Game version: [value]
Sources mined: [speaker table, profiles, tips, script, UI, credits]
Authority version/commit: [value]
Last approved by/date: [value]

Whenever a decision changes, add the old form to Deprecated forms, update affected translations by stable line ID, and rerun the corpus-wide consistency audit.