Sometimes, the cultural notes in the back of a manga tell you more about American culture than Japanese culture.

Bonusjakso: Postisäkki Tässä bonusjaksossa käymme läpi tämän vuoden aikana jonoon jääneitä kuulijakommentteja. mangakartta.net/postisakki

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

A new monday, a new issue of Jump, a new Jump series with a female protagonist.

happy halloween! the latest Anime by the Numbers is an interview with @geauxta.bsky.social about the current state of manga publishing and her career. PLUS: some early data on the fall anime season, the Crunchyroll Subtitle Controversy, and more! animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/an-insider...

Hupsista vaan, on se kumma miksei kukaan suomessa tykkää voittoa tavoittelevista tapahtumista!

As the threat of AI translations and subtitles keeps rising, at some point we need to have the conversation about how the push for these are coming more from JP producers and publishers rather than western ones because the reality is Japan generally doesn't care that much about localization quality

Kyllä kannatti harrastaa piirrettyjä kaikki nämä vuodet tätä kautta varten. Ainakin 50% Teheanicastista on tätä mieltä. kazokucast.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

Ennakkoilmoittautuminen DesuTalksiin on nyt auki! Ilmoittautumalla mukaan varmistat paikkasi syksyn asiapitoisimmassa animetapahtumassa. Ilmoittautuminen Talksiin tapahtuu Desukaupan kautta. desucon.fi/shop/ Kuva: Nyymix

Syksyn 2025 animestriimit Suomessa. Ketjussa huomioita:

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

One common challenge when translating horror manga is that the Japanese language is basically tailor-made for stories where it seems like characters carry on normal conversations with the protagonist for dozens of pages until you hit the last page and it turns out they're a ghost nobody can perceive

DesuTalksin ilmainen ennakkoilmoittautuminen alkaa tasan viikon kuluttua 18.10. klo 18.00! Tapahtumassa on rajattu määrä paikkoja, joten ilmoittautumalla mukaan varmistat paikkasi tapahtumassa. Tutustu myös ohjelmaan verkkosivuillamme! desucon.fi/talks2025/oh... Kuva: nyymix

An interesting detail in Steel of the Celestial Shadows: Daruma Matsuura sometimes uses a digital brush with a halftone texture to achieve a transparent ink-painting look. It would be easy to just use a solid gray, but that would stick out from the other textured half-tones in the art.

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me. blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Very honored to be interviewed by @brkagurabachi.bsky.social about my work on manga projects like @mangasplaining.bsky.social, american manga awards with @animenyc.bsky.social & finding manga for kids with Scholastic Graphix kagurabachi.com.br/interviews/d... + charming illios by Yowhza & BMO

what if we were all taking the wrong sides this entire time and his name was actually supposed to be written as "write yagami" in english because he writes stuff

DREAM INTERVIEW ACHIEVED I spoke with Makoto Yukimura about penning the final volume of Vinland Saga. We also spoke candidly about the J. Cole "I have no enemies" meme, my procrastinated tattoo idea, the state of the world, and how being strong means being kind. gizmodo.com/vinland-saga...

Huomenna klo 15.00 luvassa puhetta Demon Slayerista ja Kpop Demon Hunters -elokuvasta Yle Radio 1:n aalloilla ja myöhemmin netissä:

If only there was a physical process whereby one Coen could claim natural dominance over the other

Quoting this because I'm surprised people don't ask this more often. Galge is just a thematic label in Japan for any game with predominantly female ensemble casts catering primarily to male audiences. Tokimeki Memorial is a galge. Sakura Taisen is a galge. [Generic Switch harem VN]? Also a galge.

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

New article: animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crun...

Laulaja-ääninäyttelijä Yui Ogura kuvasi Suomessa valokuvakokoelman teemalla "onnen etsimisen matka". 📸 Ayako Yamamoto Lue lisää: www.jame-world.com/fi/news/1695... #小倉唯 #suomikuva

Trying to make a distinction from "this is art the artist makes to deal with trauma" and "this is the artist's very clear fetish" puts the privacy of real life victims at risk. I shouldn't have to give you a laundry list of all my triggers and traumas for you to decide my art has the right to exist

I'm not even gonna post who this is, but this fucking moron DID NOT play the game. He has NO idea what in the FUCK he's talking about. And he's clearly making up his "localizer friend." We need to shame these losers every single chance we get.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Hi everyone, it's new article day. 🥰 This week, we have an article by Kaylyn Saucedo, who explored Densha Otoko, with a focus on the TV drama. She examines the work and why it remains a valuable work within the greater otaku subculture today. It's a great read and we hope you like it.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

once again, if you make it difficult to label content accurately without repercussions--sometimes BAD ones--people will stop labeling it. and more people will encounter it without wanting to, and fewer people will recognize that the content is niche and specific. it becomes MORE normalized

idk if any of this is making sense tbh but I just think that when, say, kids encounter stuff, it actually really helps when the label on the box says "uncomfortable gender dynamics" or "woman treated as property" instead of what we have now, which is any movie made before 1988

people who like noncon fiction (or gore or foot stuff or whatever else) know not everybody does, and largely when given the tools and freedom to do so, they label it. taking away that freedom removes our ability to consent, and it removes the ability for creators to SPECIFY that it's a scene

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

Always interesting to be reminded how culturally bound things like "fame" are. I was out with a group of about 20 Japanese people and not a single one of them had ever heard of Junji Ito. When I asked them if they knew Mizuki Shigeru, they all looked at me like I was joking. Of course they did.

Kirjoitin mun kaksi senttiä Demon Slayer -elokuvasta sekä sarjasta ilmiönä: www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/ko...

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

this message appears if you search for hypnosis on pornhub very normal response by society to the very real and very important threat of adult actors pretending to have sorcery make them sleepy it’s the dumbest micro-censorship in our society today

Oh you assumed the cartoon character getting plowed is consenting because they look happy? How naïve. They're pretending because they were coerced by the other character. There's actually untold amounts of abuse happening to cartoon characters behind the scenes. We must take waifu welfare seriously

117: Miten mangassa ikäännytään? Millainen rooli vanhemmilla hahmoilla on mangatarinoissa? Viz julkaisi tekoälyfirma Orangen käännöksen. Vuoden 2025 sarjakuvapalkinnot. The New Yorkerin artikkeli Shonen Jumpista. Lukujonossa Ichi the Witch ja Delicious in Dungeon. www.mangakartta.net/jaksot/117

Stumbled back over Peter Chung's account of watching Space Cobra with no translation and learning by just looking at it. www.cartoonbrew.com/the-animatio...

"but the porn industry hurts women!" historically yes. But also the forces of "decency" said it was cool to literally have your wife lobotomized if she talked back too much. Turns out systems that deny people their own agency routinely hurt women.

i need everyone to understand and internalize this shit deeply. The antithesis to "weird fanfic with problematic elements" is "Women can't open their own bank accounts because they are property."

Great article about why kink art is so important

this is what every localization complaint looks like to me these days

Cloudin näytökset ovat tulossa päätökseen! Tässä ovat todennäköisesti kaikki jäljellä olevat näytökset.

I feel like we’re too anime-brained over here. Exposure is great but it sorta bums me out when the popularity of something explodes because it got adapted, when the artist’s original manga interpretation just sorta remains unconsidered in the discussions