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Translator
Female
Hyougo Prefecture, Japan
Years Active
2004 - Present
Also known as
Tomoko Kimura (木村智子)
Tomo Kimura
About
[Website](https://tkimura.net/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tkimura_tokyo)
Tomo Kimura started translating manga in 2004 after a career in software engineering. Starting with Full Moon O Sagashite (Arina Tanemura), representative manga translations include Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits (Wako Ioka/Yuma Midori), Black Butler (Yana Toboso), Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Aka Akasaka), and Skip Beat! (Yoshiki Nakamura). She currently teaches manga translation at Fellow Academy, a translation school in Tokyo. Courses teach the basic rules of manga translation, with emphasis on translation issues for Japanese students whose native language is not English. Born in Kobe, Tomo lives in Tokyo.