An official English localization was worked on by a team led by the American translator John Hooper and had approached Light with the proposal to localize Dies irae .
John Hooper had previously worked on the localization of Root Double : Before Crime * After Days .
An official English localization was worked on by a team led by the American translator John Hooper , who had previously worked on the localization of Root Double : Before Crime * After Days , and had approached Light with the proposal to localize Dies irae .