Mariokart tour: I’m dying scoob Fire emblem heroes: Imagine Tharja in booty shorts

new ghost in the shell rules but I cannot emphasize enough that Amazon is a dogshit platform to watch anime on

Very satisfied with these panels.

wow this is doing numbers (derogatory) everyone should read Itsuka Minoreba/Someday We’ll Get There, a short yuri series from 2017 (printed in Comic Yurihime for good measure) that forgets about the yuri to draw long-winded explanations of how frame data works. This manga walked so TaiAri could run.

(forgot the other part) the ideal would be either a separate set of bitmapped tiffs with all the text layers turned off, or all the original files from the artist. I've done both, both are great. Retouch is a 2-4x increase in work time. It would make production way more efficient.

a better world with better file pipelines for manga is possible! No good reason any of this should come flat from the publisher unless it was drawn with pen and paper. (Amazing work though!!!)

X-Play's "Big in Japan" episode is extremely funny to watch now as an adult who engages with a lot of bishoujo games, especially the part where they talk about them...

microsoft as a corporation has been at the vanguard of making games worse for the people who make them and the people who play them for decades now, and they will continue to do untold destruction to the people and legacies of every studio they hoovered up with their billions of dollars.

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. I beat him 16-0 in Tekken. It's like he wasn't even trying to press buttons. Shameful display

Pretty damning condemnation of Phil Spencer's batting average with his acquisitions after it's all said and done when it's the game they acquired years before the rest of their Game Pass portfolio that's apparently kept the rest of the division afloat all these years. Shocking? No, but still grim.

All paths lead to [Metroidvania]! 🎮 If you haven't heard of 'A Communal History of [Metroidvania] Video Games' with Lead Author Derrick Bitner, now's the time to get stuck in 🗡️⤵️

New on the work shelf: Snow White with the Red Hair volume 27 releases July 7th!🍎💖 It's been two years since the last volume released!

YEYYYYY

okay this fucking rips

I do not like retouching gradients

just thankful that double fine no longer has to put up with this

working 24/7 as a freelancer instead of a 9-5 and somehow it feels like there’s still not enough time

I don't know if Mitch McConnell is alive but I DO KNOW that he vomited up a giant egg with a younger Mitch McConnell in it like King Piccolo from Dragon Ball

Met up with the goated @jennygeist.bsky.social for dinner while I was up at Anime Expo. We talked about One Piece for two hours like a bunch of nerds lmao.

blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

Reclaiming the culture of games isn't a battle we'll win overnight, but it's one we can wage in our own ways. Jailbreak your console. Learn how to solder to mod and repair your stuff. Write blogs. Publish zines. Stream niche games. Make videos. Import games and study languages to play them.

I fell in love with games all over when I was broke with nothing but a PS2, a Swap Magic, and a stack of DVDs. Making games my own thing nobody and nothing could invalidate freed me. Be the culture you want instead of part of someone else's. Don't let the bastards burn what we built to begin with.

New on the work shelf—Beyblade X volume 6 releases July 14th!

There’s no reason to try to find the “good side” of the Xbox layoffs. They’re selling 2 studios to ???, 2 more are going indie, all while facing a dire economy and a lack of funding, and they’re just starting to put Arkane through this process. This isn’t generosity, it’s ducking responsibility

Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.

It’s incredible how many people were a part of this industry that thousands can still be laid off. But imagining all the knowledge, insight, and perspective lost is downright depressing. Have we reached the point where there are more people formerly in the industry than in the industry itself?

I think the part of Sony abandoning physical games that concerns me the most is the knock-on effect that may have on physical movie releases. The consoles have been the most popular player for years and have helped keep that industry alive. Will people buy a dedicated player once that vanishes?

Alright checking out as many summer anime seasonals as I can today

good morning i cried when she said this

Risking your life and maintaining a tight budget is difficult. Hero Company by Kazuhiko Shimamoto is now available for pre-order on our site: buff.ly/oWYigp0

Remember: Chibodee gives asylum to and employs illegal immigrants in safe, well-paying jobs because he believes in the American dream!

this was a bad year for me, the one letterer in the NA manga industry who loves beyblade, to not go to AX

I feel like I've been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me to edit Beyblade footage, but today that weirdly specific day finally came

What the hell? That's amazing! bsky.app/profile/rebe...

This is my favorite series to whip out and say "oh yeah I love seinen manga" when people start talking like the word means "like Berserk or Vinland Saga"

yen... I guess y'all are locking in on gundam manga thank you very much

HOLY SHIT

For reference: This otome game has over 50 million players. "The greatest controversy in gaming this week is PlayStation no longer producing discs" "Wrong, it's that the hot werewolf guy in an otome game will no longer be releasing"

Fresh SuleMio illustrations by the legendary Hirotoshi Sano 🔥

Being involved with a new edition of Phoenix is an honor (and a huge responsibility). The series will be published in six large-sized (7x10") hardcover editions with cloth casewrap, screenprinting, and gold foil. Feat. the original Dadakai translation with revisions/updates & letters by @sara.pizza

It’s an honor of a lifetime to localize Tezuka’s Phoenix and I can’t wait for y’all to see it

機動新世紀ガンダムX After War Gundam X OP2 v2 Artist: Romantic Mode Track name: Resolution

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It’s been announced! Sword of Paros, written by Kaoru Kurimoto (guin saga) and illustrated by Yumiko Igarashi (candy candy). Licensed by @mangamavericks.bsky.social The art is amazing retro Shojo style, AND I GET TO LETTER IT

(Even though it's lowkey the department that's been hit the most by various industry trends, there are many more than 3 studios/teams that produce analog anime backgrounds. Sayonara Lara's are painted @ Studio Pablo, who also do digital work even if they opted not to for this project. Use your head)

Disney is gutting Marvel's partnership with Shonen Jump. That sucks. I can't speak to most of the other titles in that collab, but I'm forever grateful that we at least got Secret Reverse out of it. If you've never read it, do yourself a favor and fix that -- especially if you like Yu-Gi-Oh.