nominations are OPEN for the least prestigious manga localization awards 👏 only a few weeks left!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OC. her arms are too long but fuck it we ball

Okay I'm tired. No more day job comics time for personal comics

I was on Giant Robot FM!! This was my first time reading Tomino prose and it was an experience lmfaooooo but I don't get to talk shop about Gundam stuff too much so I greatly enjoyed it.

Oh I didn't realize animazement was like now

Really depressing to see big YGO creators and personalities defending the use of genAI art in their content, at the same goddamn time we’re all celebrating the *human* who created it and his life, Kazuki Takahashi, whose work could never be recreated by anyone or anything without a soul.

As this book gets closer and closer to it’s final edit, it feels more and more surreal that I wrote it. But each edit makes it better and I think I’ll have something really special for all of you when it releases later this year.

It's hard to convey just how much I love drawing sound effects for manga. Retouch can be arduous. Replacing text on phone screens and packaging is tedious. But every second spent drawing sound effects is wonderful.

Being in my 30s feels like, oh every time something is slightly wrong with my body, I feel like I'm gonna die

gundam hathaway is a cautionary tale that there will always be a white woman you will fold to

Based on what I’ve been hearing about Hathaway 2, it should actually be titled Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Hunt for Nut November

It’s taken a while, but the digital release of Ballet Hero Fantasy Vol. 1 is finally launching next week! Really excited for folks to see the amazing work that the team has put into this, and it’s been a huge pleasure working on a Takafumi Adachi manga!

You can take a peek at some of my lettering. I happen to think it looks pretty sweet!

gigi

Saw Hathaway 2. Man I honestly dug just about everything in this movie tbh, I remind that I have absolutely no real context to Gundam other than "Char existed and made that everyone else's problem" but I think it adds to the mystery that comes of the backstory to these movies at all.

I've been doing a bunch of small animation experiments but I do wonder what it would look like if I did something that pushed my skills to the limit

Genuinely sometimes a project that should take me a week to complete will take me three or more, because I'm juggling so many jobs simultaneously that at times just switching focus can take all day. Couple that with the stress of contract drought periods and it does not make for a productive worker

If you want manga to be released in English quicker, one really good way would be to have translators and letterers as salaried employees instead of freelancers. It's a lot easier to hit deadlines when your employer knows your workload and you don't need to juggle multiple jobs!

was reminded on the other timeline of how genuinely excellent Power Rangers Time Force was (and how it by and large stuck to the script of the all-timer sentai show, Mirai Sentai Timeranger koichi sakamoto one of the GOATs.

probably as far as I'm taking this one. Neat!

Me when I see Garrod

Like on one hand, super gross and weird thing to say. On the other, y’know…. There’s something to be said about fiction that manages to think about the weird fucked up things most creators would be too afraid to consider

I was bored so I touched up this little thing I did earlier this year. Better smoke, better visor glow, slightly changed the lens flare, camera blurs, chromatic aberration, that sorta thing

A Blender experiment with my old mecha design that turned into like 4 hours of manual coloring and compositing I'm still figuring things out but I hope to keep pushing and learning how to make things move!

Would it surprise you to learn we picked ours because a tall maid uses it

Commence the ripping

Space dandy is so cool, you get like 16 or so episodes in and then he goes to the dimension where there’s a choir of sea creatures debating the futility of thinking about death. youtu.be/jM-yA_baH5w?...

Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop

We blame @brandonbovia.bsky.social for this one

It has taken me too long to realize people are talking about some Gundam movie with Hathaway in the title and not that one scene in The Devil Wears Prada 2 where Anne Hathaway uses a Gucci mech to kill Miranda Priestly

thank you to everyone who came to my NIF panel today!!! 🫶 if it helped a single person, I would consider that a job well done

Enjoyed this - fun and insightful, all the good stuff. Definitely recommend the listen if you watched the first (or second!) movie, and would like to dive a little deeper into the original source material. Hyped to join the book 2 discussion!

intrusive thought: a new dub of Char’s Counterattack, but the only re-recorded lines are Char’s and he has a Boston accent. It’ll be wicked

Watching Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe in theaters really makes appreciate media that's purposefully political & asks you think about the real world. Yeah OG & them still got it.

I want to work on dragon ball again

also worth noting that Asato (the author of the novels) is really well read and she actually has a proper understanding of history and how fascism works in a way that a lot of JP writers in the same-ish space absolutely do not. So not only is the anime excellent, the books are as well.

Was doing a quick study on armor shapes (things that would be really annoying to draw by hand!) in 3D, and decided to cook up a quick walk cycle. Feels a little floaty, but I feel progress being made!

This is being rescheduled for next weekend! Time: May 16th @ 5PM EDT

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021)(Rewatch) Prepping for tomorrow. I still really enjoy this film and its more nuanced, reserved take to everything. Much like the novels feel like a more "mature" take from Tomino, the movie feels like a prestige piece that I - YATTE MISERO YO, MAFTY

Was doing a quick study on armor shapes (things that would be really annoying to draw by hand!) in 3D, and decided to cook up a quick walk cycle. Feels a little floaty, but I feel progress being made!

New on the work shelf! The Otaku Love Connection volume 4 releases May 19.

weather is so good today

Excited to watch Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe here in a bit. First Gundam movie I haven't had to travel out of town for!

My name is Brandon Miracle, and I'm a voice actor! I'm available for your games and animations! If you have a cool indie game project and want a Brandon Miracle sounding voice, I know just the guy for the job.

By far the most thorough discussion you'll ever seen online about Beyblade X from the guy who helped localize it and a bunch of very nice people. I'm really glad we got to talk a bunch of nuts and bolts about the storytelling and what makes it special.

Ohhhhh I think I got sick I feel like complete crap

lmao guess it turns out the response to "how did sega turn out yakuza/rgg games on such a modest budget at such high fidelity so consistently?" is "the answer is obvious and You're Not Gonna Like It!"