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I am unbelievably excited to say that @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and I are lettering the English release of Billy Bat! Both of us!

Big ups to rowan for handwriting this bit to give off the same vibe as the Japanese text

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I'm reading The Loser by Thomas Bernhard now and I think every writer should live in such a way that they have a translation note like this at the start of their books. "Yeah none of this follows any sort of convention so we preserved it that way in the translation."

The JOJOLands Volume 6

Ha look her ears are all squished look how silly she looks.

Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 2

The duality of translating Shima Kōsaku. It's half the first image and half the second image.

Fun fact about today's Jojo chapter is that Laem Chabang's name was previously all one word in Japanese (We write it as two words because the city is always written as two words) but in this chapter it's changed to be two words.

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Apparently there's no new 3-Gatsu no Lion chapter in this issue of Young Animal despite it saying last issue that there WOULD be one in the next-issue-preivew page. Oh well. Gives me more free time this week. Maybe next issue.

They translated "tjukurpa" an aborigines Australian word for a complicated spiritual idea as "songline" in this Death Stranging 2 song for some reason. Except in Portuguese where they left it.

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I walked the entire length of Manhattan today with a group that does this every year. (I'm the only one who finished) (Feet hurt)

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At the moment I'm scanning through the remaining 20 volumes of Gintama I've got to scan and watching a playthrough of Hundred Line (A game I would never in a million years have time to actually play) so things are going fine

Gintama Volume 71

Happy 10th anniversary to the last chapter of Vagabond, everyone. I'm sure Inoue-sensei will get back to it one of these days.

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There's apparently a "Stardust Scan" that started Kaitani-sensei's current manga today, and also a totally independent "Starview Scan" that started his manga from a 2011-2016 and has finished 5 chapters since last month.

For now we'll be uploading all our stuff on comick.io if it's not available on MangaDex for an online reader. That seems to be what most groups are doing, we'll see if folks permenantly move over there or somewhere else.

A bunch of stuff got delisted on Mangadex but all our HWMN releases are still on our site as usual and you can download them all there. If the Mangadex situation doesn't change we'll probably find some other site to use as an online reader for those series.

Managing Director Shima Kōsaku Volume 1

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Anyhow I managed to get a Switch 2 preorder eventually. That sure was a shitshow. Someday they'll perfect the technology for everybody going to the online store and preordering at once, but not today.

This series started last year and has 3 volumes and 3 separate groups all released a scanlation of chapter 1 all on the same day? For some reason?

So anyway, now that I got past all that dour stuff I made it to the fun part with the swords. (This is the same story arc)

I dunno about you but I spend my saturday nights translating stuff like this.

Holy shit Thomas Pynchon finished a new book. It's his first in 12 years. I thought he was done (he's 87). www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

Not a fan of this whole tariff thing not gonna lie.

Once in a while I think about doing a redo project on Billy Bat and translating the other like 45% I didn't do since there are good quality digital raws out now but then I realize it'd take like... a year.

We’re gonna try a thing where we update these with higher-res raws they use for the Chinese version a little after release. It requires some manual work and we can’t get those early so it won’t look like this with the original release but I thought that would be worth a try. We did it for ch21-24.

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Utilidade pública: terminaram as scans em inglês da parte 2 de Shima Kosaku o melhor mangá que você não está lendo isso mesmo 👉você! 👈

Division Chief Shima Kōsaku Volume 13 (End of Division Chief Arc) hiwamatanoboru.com/2025/03/12/d...

Shima volume 13 is almost done now so I'm marathoning through typesetting it. Honestly this part is usually really exhausting but it's helping me get my mind off all the other problems I've been having.

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