Alexander O. Smith

Alexander O. Smith is a professional Japanese-to-English translator and founder of translation company Kajiya Productions along with Joseph Reeder. Their official website is here. He frequently collaborates with Square-Enix and met Yasumi Matsuno through there.

He has been involved in the translation of the following created by Alexander O. Smith include:

• Winter Heat
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Chocobo's Dungeon 2
• Front Mission 3
• Vagrant Story
• Parasite Eve 2
• Final Fantasy IX
• Final Fantasy X
• Fire Emblem Elibe
• Final Fantasy X-2
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
• Phoenix Wright series
• Final Fantasy XII
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2
• Valkyria Chronicles
• MadWorld
• Gyromancer
• Vanquish
• Tactics Ogre PSP
• Brave Story (both the novel and the New Traveler PSP game)
• Ico the novel

His translations tend to insert the following

• Getting "Nightsoil" Past the Radar
• Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: He is a student of older literature after all.
• Magick: A big proponent of this trope.
• Purple Prose: Goes with being a student of old literature and seeking to emulate their style.
• Tome of Eldritch Lore: They're not just spellbooks anymore, they're now grimoires.