This might be the single-most destructive case of creative slander I've ever witnessed - all it's missing is Luffy just pummelling everything because Oda made him effectively invincible.

Airy the Fairy Sketch [ twitch.tv/genczilla ]

I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history

Genuine question I have for all J->E translators and general speakers, how much is "enough" when it comes to translating the inherently indirect nature of Japanese into English? How much of the implications should be said directly when converting into another language?

They're calling it the great coward filtering of 2026

Thank you Jujutsu Kaisen animators for giving me another avenue to ramble about ConRevo to people.

another horsey compilation 🐎🐎 #umamusume

This roughly has the same flavour as that super nice guy in an anime who suddenly reveals himself to be a monstrously powerful fighter the moment he steps onto the field.

Doing the ConRevo re-translation has really taught me to value the inherent meaning of の事 as a word. So many lines hinge directly on its specific use relative to a more defined noun...

toko fukawa

Gotta hand it to the nation of Brazil for producing a BP nom twice in a row. The mid-20th century military dictatorship is evidently just *really* creatively fertile material.

it's fascinating how many gacha games have writers who are well read on literature, philosophy, history, science etc and want to use this in their work while the audience is actively hostile to anything that isn't babybrained key jingling enough. and yet the writers persist

Really need to get back to thread-writing - doing my re-translation work feels like it's taking up half my spare time right now....

The vndb drama, recent manga site takedowns and Backloggd being a gen alpha garbage tip are really making me realize how much essential internet infrastructure is just in the hands of complete idiots who have no idea what they have.

The great pirate era

I drew Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End to celebrate the launch of Season 2 #フリーレンFA #フリーレン #frieren

I come with pain

An underrated part of The Art of Manga exhibit is when they had to try and explain each part of jjba in a short sentence while retaining a museum's register

@aikawafiction.bsky.social Been working on a redone translation for ConRevo, and Jiro's use of [あばよ] to Kikko at the end of Episode 1 was very striking to me. That word was a common closing line in classic dramas and movies, correct?

a lot of Japanese media that's popular in English speaking spaces is very sincere (anime,games etc.) but something I noticed is that sometimes there's this projection of irony and shame, remember how people used talk about HxH being an anti shonen or NGE being about how the mecha genre sucks

LRT: Continues to blow me away how mainstream the Absolute Universe has really become in the little over a year since it started running.

Absolute scarlet #東方project

spring will come #goldenkamuy

I love how, in just a month and a half, I have gone from passingly remembering ConRevo as something I vaguely remembered watching a decade ago, to being an insanely devoted fan running a retranslation project, and am friendly acquaintances with the writer. What is happening with my life.

シャカファイ 샤커파인

Nia🌸

Me this morning: "Wow, translating Japanese isn't actually nearly as hard as it seems! There's a lot of it, but I have most of the particles down, so I can understand the meaning!" Me after spending an hour trying to figure out whatever the fuck んだ actually means:

Really good breakdown here of how easily mishandled translation can be, even when it isn't directly "wrong".

Intriguingly, having looked now at the original scripts, this scene was actually heavily rewritten to remove most of Jiro's dialogue (originally, his response to Emi's first line was basically what he later says to Jin). The decision was very purposeful to have use read into his thoughts here.

So my takeaway from this is that ConRevo's love triangle (from hell) is literally a Gundam love triangle, if the "naughty" woman was also both the childhood friend, and *unfathomably* toxic to the point of being borderline emotionally abusive. This is why Emi goes in the chair.

@aikawafiction.bsky.social Interesting thing I've noticed about analysis of Ultraman/Ultraseven is that it's rarely assigned to a single creative. Tsubaraya, Narita, Kinjo, and Jissoji are all treated as equally important to making the two works what they are.

月火水木金 #sailormoon

the earth calling… commission work 😌 thank you!!

青山剛昌先生

LRT: Words cannot understate how good it feels having Takeuchi Ryosuke on this platform. Truly goated artist.

セーラームーン🌙

Oh boy, Mamoru Oshii! I sure wonder what he's been up to- Oh wait.

more horse doodles #umamusume

#ダンガンロンパV3　#danganronpa 9周年おめでとうございます！

I am about 50% convinced Anya Forger might be the greatest character in all of fiction.

Played through that anti-racism "game" the uk government made and I don't understand why they made the racist bad influence the most pronouns in bio looking girl of all time. They needed someone on the team to point out that "Racist Ramona Flowers" would absolutely one-shot a lot of lonely lads.

My current feelings towards Deniz Camp after seeing what happens in Ultimates #20.

Shit like this fasinates me because of how harshly it highlights the anti-woke mindset. What other artist has New Norm memorialized? What contribution did he even have to New Norm artistically? Literally the only reason this is posted is because he was "cancelled", and thus acts as a martyr.

"Time to say goodbye to my old self…to turn and face the truth…not to hide from it." I watched Revolutionary Girl Utena when I was wee and in the closet, and man, this helped spark the questions I needed to break free from the egg of my world. 6w6 <3 I'll always be thankful for Utena and Anthy. 🌹🥚🌹

Main takeaway I'm getting from the comments are: 1. People really need to be aware that DC has multiple regular transfem creatives now, and the Red Hood incident is not illustrative of the rest of the company. 2. Not every creative decision has to have some form of coded malice behind it.

So, latest in my ConRevo analysis - Apparently Earth-chan might actually be canonically trans? That might sound odd, but while the story notes included with the script of EP7 explicitly refer to her as 中性型ロボット (sexless robot), the dream Kikko gives her clearly has her as female, and uses お姉ちゃん.

@aikawafiction.bsky.social Aikawa-sensei, a question I have about ConRevo - Was Emi intended to be seen as a bad person? Because I find her impossible to like or sympathize with, very different to how I feel about Jiro, Kikko, or Hyouma.

Calling it now, the big reveal in Star Detective Precure is that one half of the main duo is actually the mother of the other, and it's going to make the people who shipped them feel *really* weird after it's all said and done.