At Renaissance Josei, I talk about Tokyopop's latest attempt to turn themselves into a multimedia empire by selling shares of themselves. Let me convince you on The Perils of Investing In Tokyopop: renaissancejosei.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

Said it before but I think it would behoove the western anime fandom to realize that if you're really worried about AI translations being pushed, you need to be way less worried about western distributors and more worried about JP licensors who view the localization process as a mere afterthought

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Just Kyoto things.

It had to happen one day.

Today it is 14 degrees and rainy here. It will be forever impossible to make people believe that global warming exists, since at any given moment its effects are always unevenly distributed.

My recent emojis tell the story of Hokuto no Ken

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Japanese developer says Steam rejected an all-ages visual novel demo after flagging even a pitch-black shower scene as sexual  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-developer-says-steam-rejected-an-all-ages-visual-novel-demo-after-flagging-even-a-pitch-black-shower-scene-as-sexual/

Also, it would have been doubly important for anime media to cultivate healthy localization discourse, as the anime scene was basically ground zero for bad localization takes. But alas, nothing was done, and now nothing is done today because "ohh but only bad people talk about this". It sucks!

But localization discourse never became a regular thing. Of course, anime media isn't the only one guilty of this, but they do still deserve outsized blame because they of all people should have understood its importance. And so, the culture war grifters ended up taking over the field uncontested.

Of course, both of these ideas were horribly misguided. A young industry is the best time for critical voices to make a real difference, and because localization is the window through which the foreign art is perceived, it should go without saying that it absolutely should be regularly talked about!

English anime media on the other hand was preoccupied with treating anime publishers with kid gloves because "they could die if we say mean words and that'd be supporting piracy" and thinking that they're here to talk about Art and not Products and localization matters fall under Product Talk

English games media was completely unequipped to handle localization discourse. To them it was the unquestioned norm that Games Are In English, and the idea never even occurred to them that they should talk about how that happens with foreign games.

Echoing what I've said in the past, my scalding take is that it was inevitable that localization discourse would be dominated by grifters because the voices that could have made a difference never tried to cultivate a healthy environment of localization discourse. The land was ceded without a fight

Hanna Bergholm's new movie looks like an interesting new interpretation of the traditional changeling story. Your child is somehow wrong and evil – but it's NOT a complete intruder like a cuckoo, but instead something that you carried and gave birth to yourself. What could be more dreadful?

16 colors!!

Puhumme tänään mangasta hieman laaja-alaisemmin kuin yleensä. Tervetuloa katsomaan kello 14:30! #desucon

For this Witch Hat Monday I drew Coco in a Starry Night Dress! It's a continuation of the Starry Night Hat I painted a while back :) #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子 #WHA

Billy Bat sound effects thread! Brendon (@lettererbrendo.bsky.social) and I adore the way Urasawa draws sound effects, and are so excited to adapt the Billy Bat sound effects into English. For years, we'd talked about the quirks they have and how to replicate them. Here's a thread of comparisons!

I’m glad to see that so many other writers have been running into this exact problem, at least

And they won’t tell you the rules (because they don’t actually exist) because they claim that if they do, you, an evil pervert, would deliberately try to skirt them or toe the line exactly——that’s if they deign to tell you what they didn’t like rather than just banning your game & calling you a pedo

They stem from a deep seated issue with the way the company operates: flat management. There are no unified rules and no recourse if you roll a reviewer who is in the anime haters faction within Valve.

I know you’re in a deep parasocial relationship with Gabe Newell but you really can’t blame payment processors for Valve’s incoherent content standards (which they explicitly refuse to provide/define for anyone).

i’ve been enjoying going through Artgames After Gamergate (2025) by Rob Gallagher for a lot of reasons that i hope i will elucidate in the near future. but something that caught my eye was bringing up my 2019 article claiming that pseudo-ironic dating sims aimed at dating sims that never existed.

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

A whole-ass puff piece in Variety, but not once does anyone mention that this Orange Inc. (and their godforsaken digital manga platform) is nothing but a goddamn, cheap-ass, labor-stealing AI translation company. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Billy Bat volume 1 is out in English now! It's my favorite comic ever, and I'm so grateful that I get to letter this edition alongside @lettererbrendo.bsky.social. We literally fantasized for years about stylistic choices we would make if we ever got to letter it, and I want to share about those!

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

I don't even have time for ONE metroidvania in today's economy, let alone two.

Torille www.youtube.com/live/Wvmm-Om...

Why was PS1 adventure Kowloon's Gate a nightmare to hack? Why could machine translation never come close to giving this game the English localization it deserves? Here's @hilltopworks.bsky.social and @cargodin.bsky.social going deep on a very special game and fan translation.

Gonna say the same thing I have been saying for the last few years: there is no future in this business. Get out while you can. If you have to write about media, do it because you want to, and do it for yourself, not some website that pays pennies and would feed you to an alligator to make a dime.

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

Jailbreaking my android girlfriend because Asimov's laws prevent her from spanking me

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

gacha mobage is to GL artists what battle shounen is to BL artists, for better or for worse. it's been like that since the 2010s (the fact that nearly every contemporary yuri & baihe artist tends to cut their teeth making fan art or comics for uma musume, love live, gfl, arknights, etc etc)

124: Nana Kaksi 20-vuotiasta tyttöä muuttaa Tokioon etsimään itseään ja unelmiaan. Kamome Shirahaman UNESCO-haastattelu synnytti keskustelua naisten asemasta manga-alalla. Ylen dokumenttisarja Japani-efekti!! Lukujonossa jännitysmysteeri Natsume Arata no kekkon. www.mangakartta.net/jaksot/124

front page of Wikipedia currently.

Todennäköisesti tullaan jälkikäteenkin vielä muistelemaan kevättä 2026, täällä oli niin paljon valinnanvaraa että täytyi jättää rannalle vaikka mitä mestariteoksia. Sen kunniaksi. kazokucast.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/t...

Kevään 2026 animestriimit Suomessa. Ketjussa huomioita:

Kylläpä Ylen Japani-efekti -sarjaa katsoessa tulee jotenkin lämmin ja pörröinen olo. Jotain tällaista olisin ehkä itsekin toimittaja-aikoina halunnut tehdä, mutta silloin elettiin sitä "värikkäät nuoret valtaavat kaupungin" aikaa.

Satoshi Kon's unfinished last movie is very interesting. It's like Astro Boy gone wrong — the future promised in the '60s is now a post-apocalyptic ruin. Enough material is public (including a storyboard page) to get an idea of Kon's plan. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-sat...

Kirjottelen vapaa-ajalla manga blogia ja päätin nyt tehdä accon sille tänne kans! Jos kiinnostelee seurata 🙏 Ps. ei kannatta odotella mitään syvällisiä juttuja. Hyvin casualilla tyylillä kirjoittelen

123: Gunnm / Battle Angel Alita Muistinsa menettänyt kyborgi etsii paikkaansa postapokalyptisessa kyberpunk-dystopiassa. Yoshiharu Tsuge kuoli. Kulttuurierot piratismin suhteen. Go for It, Nakamura!:n tekijä kiusattiin pois X:stä. Lukujonossa Akira Himekawan Kamudo. www.mangakartta.net/jaksot/123

Guy who joins the military after playing Call of Duty

Oh, it's finally Ternus Day.

In today's payment processor news: the adult manga publisher FAKKU has released a post about its recent payment processor issues www.fakku.net/news/an-upda...

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#portfolioday ? Or yesterday? Hi I’m Drew