Hello. I'm the new translator here at Fakku. Some of you probably know me as Sayo of
SaHa. I've been doing this since late 2004. Aside from the obvious SaHa commission work, I've done work for Icarus comics(now defunct), and 2D-Market, and Jacob has recently invited me to join the team at Fakku.
As of right now, I can't go into any detail on what I'm working on for Fakku because it's super ultra secret, but I can probably tell you that the recent F4U release is one of the things I've worked on over the past several weeks.
As far as interests are concerned, I'm mostly a gamer. League of Legends is my current form of digital cocaine. I've mained Sejuani since season 3, so it makes me very sad to see that she's currently in the spotlight for nerfs. I tend to prefer CC tanks for the most part, and the occasional burst mage. I dislike squishy melee champs and most adc champs. If I'm looking to win, my core champs would be Sejuani/Amumu for jungle, Zyra/Leona for support, Zyra for mid, Sion/Garen/J4 for top, and probably Miss Fortune for ADC. I despise Riven like the plague.
I do try to dabble in almost every type of game, though. Sports/racing games being the only real exception. I'm not a huge FPS fan either, but I'll give them a go from time to time. Stuff like Dark Souls / Bloodborne is high up on my list of personal favorites. My favorite game from last year was probably Dragon Age Inquisition.
FF6 is my favorite in the FF series by a country mile. Funny story about that game too. I actually got it when I was 10 years old and I broke both of my arms during gym class, so I played through the whole game with my arms locked in casts. It was also the first RPG I really played with any amount of seriousness. Luckily for me, the SNES days were probably the best years for JRPGs, so I jumped in at the right time.
I wouldn't consider myself a fanboy of any particular console since I'll just buy whatever system I need to play the games I want. I've yet to buy an xbone, though. Nothing interests me there at the moment, and Halo 5 certainly won't get me to buy one.
Currently, I'm eagerly anticipating The Witcher 3. I only hope I'll find the time to actually finish it.
I watch the occasional TV show. Game of Thrones being the top of my favorites pile.
I'm pretty heavy into following politics and current events, though I'll probably opt to keep my political leanings to myself because lol internet drama.
In terms of anime, I haven't watched very much since 2009 just due to a lack of time, but I have watched Attack on Titan, and I'm planning to maybe possibly watch Kill la Kill since it's on netflix. These days, I basically need a series to hit a certain level of glowing recommendation before I commit the time to watching it.
In terms of manga, I don't read any in my free time since I stare at manga upwards of 10 hours a day. I personally do not read scanlations. If I have the choice between the raw and the scanlation, I'll just grab the raw.
As far as hentai is concerned, I'm into most things. The most notable would probably be Futa/shem, Loli, Preg, Beast, Dark skin/Tanlines, Femdom, Nakadashi, even Trap. A lot of other stuff is take it or leave it. I tend to favor stories with strong, proactive, sultry women. Essentially succubus types. Also, I tend to favor artists with very thick, clean linework.
The only tag I really can't stand is guro. Suffering in general is not my thing.
In terms of artists, I could go on listing them forever, so I'll merely throw a few out there:
John K. Peta, Katou Jun, Uno Makoto, ShindoL(I'm actually supporting him on patreon too), Satsuki Itsuka, Eroquis, Erect Touch, Rokuroh Isako, Oshiruko Kan, Temparing, Clover, Po-Ju, Tetsu, Azusa Norihee, Kokuryuugan, Mizu, Jun, Niku Ringo, Nitta Jun.
Trust me, I could go on, and on, and on...
There are also a fair number of western artists I love. Some notable ones:
Buru, Ganassa, Maple Moon, Hizzacked, jjfrenchie, Pupuliini, Doxy, Anasheya, In Case, Calm, Aedollon, Cutepet, Dmitry's, Atryl, NeoCoill, Norasuko, Tekuhonohabo, Kabos, Mali6, benstilla, History-Eraser-Button, Kabier. Again, I could go on, and on, and on...
As for how I actually got into anime/hentai in the first place, I started out as a huge comic book nerd when I was young. Spiderman, X-men, Spawn, Savage Dragon were probably my main series. Venom was probably my favorite character at the time. I stopped reading all comics around the time Spiderman was ending the whole clone saga thing with Ben Reilly. At that point, it felt like things were getting really stale. The whole Peter's the clone -no wait- Ben's the clone -no wait- Peter's the clone -no wait- Ben just melted into a pile of goo and Peter's maybe but maybe not a clone bullshit really got on my nerves. Then they randomly brought Norman Osborne back from the dead, and I just thought that was so lame. It turns out this would end up becoming a pet peeve of mine. I'm looking at you Mu from Gundam Seed Destiny.
When I was 12 or 13, I started watching Dragon Ball Z on tv for a while until the reruns started. Around that time, my brother introduced me to Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Evangelion, Oh My Goddess, Saber Marionette, etc... That's when I got hooked. This was back before DVDs, so it was all VHS fansubs. While my brother was at university, he started his own VHS fansub group named Saha, which was short for "Slow As Hell Anime". He primarily did Slayers Try and Excel Saga, though he hired people to translate them. He did the timing/typesetting.
Eventually, I got to university, and took all the Japanese courses available in my free time. One semester, one of the more advanced classes was cancelled due to a lack of students, so I said "fuck it. I'll learn kanji on my own". That's when I started doing doujinshi translations. I tried to pick relatively simple ones starting out, and I asked my brother if he wanted to take part in it as QCer. Originally, they just went under the name of Sayo's translations, but I decided to work my brother's net name("Hazard", which is actually a play on our family name) into a group name, and do a callback to his old fansub group with SAyo and HAzard, giving us SaHa.
For those who are curious, Sayo is just short for my original gamer net name "Sayonara". When I joined a Starcraft 1 guild, people would just call me Sayo, so I eventually dropped the nara and shortened it to Sayo. Sadly, Sayo tends to be taken almost everywhere, so I typically go by SayoSaHa for the sake of not having to go by the name Sayo12847.
I could go on into the details of the early years, but I'll drop the history lesson there for now. The interview I did with 4playeranimecast(which you can find on this forum) goes over some of that stuff, though I probably skimmed over a lot of the details.
Other than that, I've been taking classes in 3D modeling/animation for the past year or so. Currently, I have no specific plans for where that could go, but I kinda needed something to pull myself out of a funk I was in.
I don't know what else to say, so I guess I'll stop there. Back to work I go. I've got a chubby girl chapter to do. Mmmm chubby.