i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

look I live and breathe shonen manga, but I've been banging this drum for decades now there are *so* many excellent comics and shows from Japan that aren't for the shonen demographic--and more importantly--don't run in Weekly Shonen Jump

I would probably still take on some editing assignments--but way fewer--and I'd focus so much more of my energy on my own writing. When stuck on an idea, I'd spend more time reading other books for fun.

Not even No Game No Life deserves this

Late to mentioning this, but I am the editor for Buying You On the Day You Were to Die. I've really wanted the chance to edit more standalone books, especially ones for older audiences, and I enjoyed going through this book! It's heavy, and sometimes I want a story of someone REALLY going through it

so fuckin mad that my favorite means of breaking up a run-on sentence -- the em dash -- is now associated with ai generated text. what am I supposed to do now? use semicolons?? like a goddamn english major?

It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...

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translation can often be a complex process. even a scene as simple as two characters talking about drinking some delicious tea can take surprisingly long to translate if it makes the translator go "well now I want some delicious tea." now you've gotta get up and go make it, and play with the cat, an

The struggle of when something sounds like a typo in the source text, but you're not entirely sure, and you're not likely to get an answer either way about it, so you just gotta go with it. At least it's a very background character that it concerns.

call me a crazy socialist, but I think when you're one of the biggest media companies in Japan, you can afford to pay a standard rate (an already too-low standard rate!) for the localization of an extremely hyped, upcoming series

The conclusion to Otonari Complex is here. I received my comp copy in the mail recently--just in time for it to be in bookstores tomorrow 👀 It was a delight to serve as the adapter on this one! Though @jennichijou.bsky.social's translation was fabulous. And @cranchyroll.com's lettering is 💯 #manga

In middle school, I was a Daisuke stan when all my friends were Dark stans. It'll be good to see what this new version is like!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I should be working, but I keep looking up Kyoto dialect stuff in advance of my travels...

Now that this season of anime is ending, I can say that this was probably the most stacked season of anime that I can remember in a long time. I remember Summer 2011 being quite good.

Stuck in my head today: "I have no shelf control" sung to the same melody as "this is my last resort"

I should make a thread of Japanese to English translationisms that I frequently edit as someone who works on a lot of light novels and sees a lot of the same turns of phrase in narration. Consider this a thread now. #amediting #amtranslating

The lion sleeps tonight

I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland

so if you’ll indulge me, I want to say a bit more about what it’s been like working on The Otaku Love Connection with minami! minami and I first met when we both worked for cybird in tokyo. we quickly discovered that we were both deeply involved in otaku fangirl culture and liked the same media

This anime fucked me up in all the right ways!!! I was SOBBING, turning to my spouse as they said, "Oh, did I mention that Devilman is quite sad? 😇"

Daniel Cruz of PEN America emphasized the toll censorship can take on authors: “Authors stop writing the content that's getting censored.”

The most sobering yet important panel I attended all weekend of Anime NYC was one on censorship, both "hard censorship" and "soft censorship," with discussions of our current political climate along with why US publishers might decide the things that they do. 🧵 incoming

LRP and thread quoted are so true, as is the likening to J>E dicts to thesauruses. After a certain point you can instinctively grasp the nuance of a word in JP, but the exact word you're looking for in EN isn't in the J>E dict, even if they're all close. That's when I head to the E>E thesaurus!

Good thread. I regularly tell people to look up the word "go" in the English dictionary. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go it has 20 listed meanings as an intransitive verb, 9 as a transitive verb, and 9 as a noun... and then you get to the "phrases", such as "go after", go hang" or "go easy".

respectability politics will see us all killed

I received this jingly charm as a part of the owner of cutest pets award, and it is going to become a cat toy whether I want it to.

MAGA is also coming for your manga.

🖤Void Galaxy🌌 theyetee.com #art #cats #space

I attended several panels at Anime NYC, and I love the educator track despite not being an educator or even having any kids in my life! This is from Teaching Manga Across Disciplines, where faculty spoke on the different ways they've incorporated manga into their teaching.

Azuki Manga announced they’ve added Kodansha’s special English edition of Young Magazine to their platform available for free to all users Link to Read: www.azuki.co/series/young...

It took a year, but I finally have the signatures of the Otonari Complex dream team! Featuring @cranchyroll.com (whose idea this was during Anime NYC last year), @editortiina.bsky.social, and @jennichijou.bsky.social

I went into the weekend really frustrated about the lack of support for freelancers in Japanese to English localization, but as always, community reminds me why I stick around. It was lovely to see so many colleagues again, and it was lovely to put faces to names of people I met in person!

I'm headed home now! I need to decompress a bit before I post about the panels I attended this weekend. save me, ibuprofen save me

I would like to thank the academy for-- Meowmeow, meowmeowmeow-meow

I wrote a post for the Yale University Press blog on how the stereotypical "manga face" came about and became mainstream. This was something I could not find much information about in secondary literature, so I figured it might be a topic of interest that a new history of manga should discuss.

On my way to the final day of Anime NYC! As always, it is easier for you to find me than for me to find you. My hair is a Pink Signal 😂 I will be attending the Manga Under Fire panel at 3:30 to listen to @editortiina.bsky.social and folks from PEN America and Japan Society talk about censorship.

Zohran’s entire candidacy is about talking about affordable housing and related affordability issues. The enemies of the working class will call anything “woke,” for a term that gained its political valence as a euphemism for anything anti-racist need not have any set meaning

Continually at odds with myself when thinking about taking the JLPT... On one hand, it would be cool to get that done. On the other hand, I have horrible test anxiety.

princess tutu 🦢

Hi friends! I have looser plans today if anyone wants to meet up! I'll definitely be at the Seinen and Josei manga panel, Create Your Own Magical Girl Wand, and maybe catch the latter part of queer manga in libraries panel. Otherwise, I'll be wandering and browsing artists!

not to sound like a broken record but this is (one of the reasons) why history and literature are a tremendous salve to being a person alive at any one specific moment

Love a good pun that makes me giggle

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

I am indeed here at Anime NYC!

The winners and accepting editors of the American Manga Awards 2025 last night at the Japan Society. Photo: C.Reid

WINNER of the BEST NEW MANGA Category The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, by Sumiko Arai Editors: Shalini Arimilli, Carl Li #AmericanMangaAwards #AmericanMangaAwards2025

I would like to thank the academy for-- Meowmeow, meowmeowmeow-meow

for all the folks going to ANYC, the big scary escalators at Hudson Yards are down until tomorrow night, so avoid taking the 7 train to Javits unless you enjoy dizziness www.mta.info/elevator-esc...