Ewen (pronounced like “Aaron”) Cluney is a professional freelance translator and game designer who hails from San Jose, California and mainly learned Japanese in college. In the fast-paced world of tabletop role-playing games he first became known to a certain sliver of the internet for Thrash, a martial arts game in the style of fighting games like Street Fighter. More recently, he attained a certain level of infamy for translating Maid: The Role-Playing Game , the first Japanese tabletop RPG to ever come out in English, and wrote the Open Anime RPG rulebook, from Battlefield Press.

Ewen’s also done a little bit of translation work for FUNimation, and an enormous amount of translation work for video games, most of which have the words “Dragon Ball” somewhere in the title.

In addition to his professional stuff, Ewen writes for a webcomic about catgirls , tries to write novels and poetry, does a blog and podcast about RPGs , daydreams, and generally wastes far too much time on the internet.