I love encountering people with incomprehensible politics

I haven't done any lettering showcases in a while, and never did Beyblade X volume 4 or 5, so I figure I'll just do both in one thread!

i keep thinking about these tacos nobuo uematsu posted absolute spot-on representation of mexican food in japan

TL did a nice job turning チョベリバ into an equally brief and popular late 90s phrase

There needs to be a writing study in how 13 Sentinels makes it feel like no matter what path you choose, it's the best path to convey the story. So many reveals feel perfectly timed in my route and I know others probably felt the same about theirs.

Companies really need to pay translators better. This is the same rate I was making as a translator ten years ago.

I WONDER

Spent my v day with a bunch of self care after a particularly bad round of burnout. Played some Beyblade, organizing some Gundam TCG stuff and catching up on some seasonal anime. Got some personal project stuff on the docket too. Not bad!!

@brandonbovia.bsky.social Saw these at Barnes & Noble and I just had to buy. (First 5 volumes)

Happy Valentine's Day!

You dont need a day to tell you that youre loved. You dont need a day to tell you to love yourself. You dont need a day to celebrate love when every day exists. You dont need a day to define your worth measured by others’ love. Even if the love for yourself is an infinitesimal iota: its still love.

Found out about this manga that Shotaro Ishinomori did on Black Jazz musicians, His depictions of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington are killer

met oomfs cats :)

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

bro it is BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!

So, the fine folks over @jnovelclub.bsky.social gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse… I’m stoked to announce that I’m editing Adachi-sensei’s Sister Mafioso! This is a real fun series, and I’m excited for y’all to check it out!

I don't plug my Patreon for One Piece at a Time too often here, but I feel like I should shout it out this week. After all, @brandonbovia.bsky.social and I covered Chapters 966-970 this week...for 2 1/2 hours. Check out this pivotal set 3 days early! www.patreon.com/c/DerrickBit...

i just want to localize video games i like and to get paid sustainably to keep doing it as someone who's been in this business for going on 11 years now is i guess what i'm trying to say, in case that wasn't clear enough

I'm so excited to get these @matchafinn.bsky.social sound effects in my hands!

I've done lettering for manga exactly one time now - and all of a sudden I can't read a manga without being hyper-focused on the lettering

It's actually pretty upsetting that once every few year Amazon realizes they want to get into anime so they grab up the rights to some of the biggest shows then never give them a physical release even thought they are largely a retailer of physical goods.

let's take ibuprofen together

there's bad anime streamers, there's worse anime streamers, and then there's prime video

Humbled to have the opportunity to talk to @katmabu.bsky.social about One Piece, politics and the importance of fiction during these dark times. She's an incredibly inspiring figure, and we need more politicians like her (not just because she's a One Piece fan). Now I just need to read Red Rising.

By the way, here's what it looks like with the original art turned off. With just the English SFX and bits and pieces I drew to close up the gaps.

I haven't done any lettering showcases in a while, and never did Beyblade X volume 4 or 5, so I figure I'll just do both in one thread!

So, is Geoffy-boy gonna talk about the layoffs from the game that he shilled and insisted we'd apologize to him over or nah?

happy with how that THWAK went

Hello. I am playing Yu-Gi-Oh Power of Chaos and Yugi just summoned Exodia on his second turn

Seeing people online trying to argue that this clip from Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash isn’t political and is not inspired by real world politics at all so I will present it here with no commentary so you can come to your own conclusion

I just finished recording the next episode of One Piece at a Time with Brandon. The raw audio is nearly 2 hours and 30 minutes long. I don't see it getting much shorter than that because we were on fire and, just, damn. 966-970 is so SO good.

lore so good you break your longest podcast episode record for like the third time this year

Happy to say I’m editing this new rom-com that challenges stereotypes! @cdcubed.bsky.social is translating and @matchafinn.bsky.social is lettering, so you know it’s a good time! 💜

Harry Potter: - stupid - only enjoyed by sad 38 year olds - sucks shit - no one cares Dragon Ball: - awesome - beloved by all - its “the good stuff” - goku is my friend

every company that signs a branding deal with Harry Potter would be one thousand times better off doing the same thing with Dragon Ball

Takara Tomy: let's make a game where slight changes in height can be the difference between life and death also Takara Tomy for some reason:

was watching a TV show on a streaming platform and they took it off. Annoying but it was on Tubi for free so I continue from there, but they just took it off there too Let physical media radicalize you!

genuinely fascinated by capcom's increasing departure from the Pokemon protagonist aesthetic (and, assumably, audience) with each successive Monster Hunter Stories entry

the way they shoved him into the hero shot with arc-v's original characters is something that will always make me laugh

I hope when people see me type "of course!" that they know I'm saying it as if I'm Bane from Dark Knight Rises.

This is how Hathaway will be controlling the Xi in the new movie

This week, @brandonbovia.bsky.social and I are diving headfirst into Oden's backstory! And it is beefy as there's enough material here to fill a 50 chapter manga of its own. So how does Oda condense it? By making you simply want more. youtu.be/-XRK6Iqj-WI?...

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance sits among my favorite games ever for its characters, story and messages. With its release on NSO, I’ve made the longest video I’ve ever done, breaking down its key aspects. If you can, please share this with other Fire Emblem fans! youtu.be/3Ic34ToCn8Q?...

i like when vegeta looks kinda like this in a few shots of Z

i knew this already, if largely from an academic perspective as a 90s kid, but watching nextlander rank 80s cartoon openings and it's clear as day that like 90% of that stuff was made by anime studios just trying to keep the lights on when they weren't making the next ova funded by bubble money huh

true, and also, with this tech you learn nothing about the art or how repeated attempts and making mistakes are not "problems" but part of the act of becoming better able to express yourself in a given form. learning the landscape and contours of a craft by doing it isn't a problem, it's the craft.

I don't know her name but I love her already