Depends the anime. Idol anime like the Pretty series or Pretty Cure require a lot of creativity to localize from the era they are portraying. But general shows like in shounen, sure.

not like they need to do it in real time.

🤝 Exactly. And the fact we are scattered everywhere, doesn’t mean we have a window to localize from 0900-1700. Tis one of the reasons I want to emigrate to Europe ASAP, so I don’t have to karoshi.