My apologies, but if you’ve sent me a DM right now I won’t be able to see it for a couple of days until I’m back in Japan since I am currently at home in the US where I cannot access DMs without giving my ID :) Which I won’t do :)

Overworked translator: I'm going to cross reference both because I wasn't provided with the work done by the previous translator whose project I'm inheriting

Person who is learning japanese: I now have renounced the English language.... I will check out every single work in japanese to enlighten myself on the true meaning of the work Person who speaks japanese fluently +10yrs: imma read it in English I'm too lazy for this

Happy new year! Here are some character sheets that represent roughly 120+ pages of scrapped work

Hi! Here's every manga I lettered in 2025. 40 volumes, maybe 43ish if you count omnibuses. This was a recovery year for me "technically" but I still ended up pretty overloaded. I have about the right workload, but time management is a tricky beast. Will try better next year!

I’m doing better even though this year, yet again, ended on a bummer. I’d reflect on stuff but tbh I just want to achieve the thing I’ve been trying to achieve since the end of last year. I’m probably not going to be on social media as much. Thinking of paying for a site and maybe having a blog

Just a perfect end to a perfectly shitty year. I feel like I’ll never be good enough.

とりあえず去年のクリスマス絵でも投下しとくか🎄メリークリスマス🎁 #ファントムバスターズ

None of this means anything if companies don’t move here though. If your publisher still advertises on Twitter you’re fucking stuck there. Ugh

It would truly be great if that stupid fucking edit button is the straw that breaks the camels back that convinces all the JP users to move here. Please.

Severance might be the most anime-like US drama I’ve ever seen

Okay that reveal about the wife in Severance has me tweaking out what do you MEAN

Anyway. Watch 10Dance

Machida Keita will not rest until he has yearned after every Kamen Rider

I watched 10Dance. It was really good until the last 20ish minutes 😭 Not sure what that ending was… Still, I enjoyed it a lot regardless!

okay severance is way more like alien stage than I would ever expect it to be

What is Charlotte’s WEEB???? Are you kidding me???

Why does it always feel like I can sense failure on the horizon…

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Okay the very very very last revision is in and now I have done everything I can do. If it fails at this point it fails. But I like the pitch so I’ll probably shop it at different places in that case…after being sad for a while

When you create things, the end result is often the reward you get for the process. You cannot be rewarded without going through the process to get there.

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

BokuPuri is everything I could ever have wanted

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

But not before I have one last round of minor revisions because of course LOL

Wow, Wish is a really boring Disney movie…

Some promising news for once……now to wait 2 more weeks. Good thing I have booked myself with more work than I probably should have this month

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

Dumb thing I drew the other day while thinking about my floor 🥺

Doesn’t matter how many times I watch it, I always tear up a little when Alex Lasarenko’s pic is revealed in that Disney Channel theme Ep of Defunctland…what a work of art

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

i can be trusted with vintage typography equipment

Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me

I'm at the combination

Finally watching Belle for the first time and yeah…I feel like Hosoda should probably focus on being an 演出家 instead of a screenwriter…

(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.) LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair? RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.

Pray for me when I try to put together some sort of Bakuten side story for this LOL

Applied to Comitia 155 in Feb with @sakaimii.bsky.social ! We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.

I need to finish my work for this month so I can switch back to comic mode...I don't think I'll be able to rest until I've finished these last revisions...

Why does KimiPuri get to have their guy character be a Precure in the main story when I had to subsist on crumbs during Wanpuri with Satoru and Daifuku 😭…..it’s fine….

I finally watched Citizen Kane for the first time and it really is as good of a movie as they say it is, particularly watching it now

Whenever I think too highly of myself, I flick myself on the forehead and go admire the miracles that Manga Letterers perform with patience and determination. "Surely anyone will a little Adobe know-how can do this--" No, not just anyone can make it look this good and still meet their deadlines.

I'm still thinking about this. It's just such a slap in the face, especially since the review of it was like "the story and characters aren't great, but the art is amazing!" Seriously? I have more to say on a lot of levels, but I'll keep it to myself for now.

started talking about how I felt around the end of my last series and randomly started crying if you want to know how my day is going

Heads up, I got a very stupid phishing attempt in my DMs just now

For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.

Watching JoJo part 5 rn and I am stunned by how Araki-sensei can even come up with any of this