The panel continued with a discussion on localization with NIS's staff, featuring both their script writers and translators. Here are some highlights:

Cross Edge took a month to translate, they said. They said it had 30,000 lines in all. As for editing, it also took a month. On a good day, 1,000 lines a day can be tackled.

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman originally referenced Japanese popular culture, with in-depth lines referring to anime and film that Americans might not necessarily understand. For the localization, they had to remove these references and re-route them to American pop culture, focusing on our comics and cartoons.

For Sakura Wars, they worked hard to have the American voice compare to the Japanese voices, going as far as to compare the dubs line for line with the original version.

The translation coordinator works with the Japanese companies, like Gust, Hit Maker, Sony Japan, and more to synchronize the output from NIS America with the programmers and coders. 

Every year the NIS has a paid vacation company trip as a group. Lucky!

The company is looking for a new editor for their staff, as one is leaving to teach English in Japan. They are asking for editors here at Anime Expo. They will be contacting people over the next couple of months from this list gathered here. They will be sending out a sample text edit soon as a sort of test. If you're interested, be on the lookout for that.