Decided to give Stella Must Die a chance after hearing @amaki.bsky.social share about it, and I quite enjoyed it! It isn't something I would usually read, but it was interesting & hoping my library will get the next volume! Thank you @kodansha.us & @netgalley.bsky.social for the review copy!

I did an interview with Laura below about Magical Girl Dandelion!! We keep it pretty light, but we go into some detail about how I got onto the project, some of my thoughts translating it! Check it out!!

I'm on translation for Secondhand Sisters by Battan (literally as we speak!!). It's so, so, sooooo good. It stabs you, it hugs you, it makes you cry happy, sad, angry tears. As usual, Battan-sensei is just a master with words, visuals, composition, plot. Please look forward to it!

I am SO excited for this week because I'll be interviewing the very lovely @amaki.bsky.social, the translator of Magical Girl Dandelion! This has been such a special series to me, and being able to interview her feels surreal! I hope you will look forward to it, as well as all these videos! 🤗

I'm translating Funny Bone with Red String! We're really excited to bring this title to you guys in English! A mixture of crazy humor and super emotional scenes, beautifully written.

I wrote a thread in Japanese about Tsumiki Ogami! Feel free to check it out if you like!!! Mostly talking about a few translation elements in from ch.91-92!

しばらく翻訳の裏話をしてなかったので、#尾守つみきと奇日常。第91話・第92話をまとめてやっちゃいます！できるだけネタバレは避けてますが、まだ読んでいない方は読んでからご覧ください！！ちゃんと忠告しましたからね！！ 今回は日本語でお届けします！

Really happy to see this. Not just for my titles with Starfruit Books, but for Matt's legacy as a whole. Thank you so much for doing this, Glacier!

I'll be on a digital panel with Victoria Esnard (main host and speaker) at Citrus Con! It's an R18+ convention, though our actual panel will not contain especially crazy levels of spice, ha ha! www.citruscon.com It's looking like it might also end up being the my debut use of my vtuber model!

Fiends attack humans. Magical girls protect humans. The rules of this world are as clear as light and shadow. But what happens when a magical girl is saved by a fiend? Pre-order Magical Girl Dandelion, Vol. 1: https://bit.ly/4rHL0qD

New chapter of Tsumiki Ogami! READ HERE: bit.ly/3O6McWg #尾守つみきと奇日常。 の英語版が更新されました！よかったら今回の翻訳裏話も下にあります（英語のみで失礼します…） Also trying out a new type of mini-MINI translation thread below, heh heh... Check out my notes about the translation this week below

Magical Girl Dandelion chapter 20.2 mini translation🧵 I've been in low-power mode for like 1.5 weeks, but there were a few translation choices in last week's ch.20 part 2 + the bonus I thought might be of interest.

i think everyone should read magical girl dandelion its so good

Some translation thoughts on recent Tsumiki chapters. JP: こんなにキラキラしてるもの (LIT: After all, they are sparkling this much.) キラキラ (kirakira / sparkling) has a really wide use case in Japanese, so translating it is always a challenge.

PSST PSST. Wanna interview me so I can use this model? Feel free to message me 😆

Since I have one interview and one (remote) panel coming up, I commissioned a vtuber model based off my little mascot!! I can't wait to use them!! (x.com/pau96___ on Twitter is my...mama? They designed and created the model/rigging! Thank you so much btw, it's amazing.)

Tsumiki Ogami's Not-so-Ordinary Life won a library honor in the Series category of the 2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults! Congratulations to Morishita-sensei for having written such a charming manga. I'm so happy to see it getting recognized in America too! www.ala.org/gncrt/awards...

I got my Magical Girl Dandelion comps! A simulpub TLer has to do very little for print, so props to the letterer Finn K and his beautiful SFX!! I can't wait for you all to see them!

There's a new English release of Mushishi, lettered by Phil Christie (@kernedout.bsky.social). I adore how Urushibara-sensei utilizes texture in her art, and how the sound effects inherit that texture. Phil does an amazing job replicating that with subtitled SFX. Notes in alt text!

Here's to 2026!! Hoping for more projects, more genres, more everything!!!!! (One of those goals has already come true, but I will gladly take more of the same, yes!!!)

My 1st full year of creative translation! It's hard to believe it's only been 1.5 years since I started freelancing full time. It honestly feels like a decade (lmao). I am so thankful to so many people for assigning me these beautiful projects, for believing in me, for giving me advice and feedback.

A truly lovely present from @keiririn7. OMG 😭😭 Thank you so much... 友達からのプレゼント！良すぎて最高・・・・ありがたや😭😭　 #ギャルとギャルの百合

chapter 20.1 of Magical Girl Dandelion is out!!!! while it's not normal for sfx to get replaced during simuls, lately i've been doing some of the simpler ones/ones that can be easily covered up. sometimes i do more complicated ones if i have time, and these are some examples! (thread)

*solid snake voice* gal x gal yuri?

I've been following this in Japanese, and it's already one of my all-time faves! I'm so excited to see it out in English! And Mei's doing a beautiful job with the character voices; this *is* poetry 💞

Surprise! I'm the translator on this~! Maybe it's silly to wax poetic on a title about gyarus being in lesbians with each other, but it's manga like this that really makes me so grateful to be allowed to do this job full-time. It's just so good! Me and the team will do our best!

Ahhh very unexpected manga haul today!! (I didn’t even get an email about Girl Crush shipping! 😆) Looks like I know what I’ll be reading in the school car line! 🤩 (My daughter is going to be excited for Minecraft!! Thank you so much @amaki.bsky.social!!)

No notes for MGD ch.19, but I realized I don't think I've ever talked about my usage of "Kiddo" for Shade.

Tsumiki ch.82 TL notes! (MY FIRST!) Some SFX are more descriptive. I think one of my favorite fun SFX is translating きっちり (precise, thorough, neat) as LOGISTICS. I don't know, there's just something fun about that word screaming at you in all caps, lol.

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The highly anticipated yuri title, A Curtain Call for You, is now available! Shy Sakura’s stories are discovered by outgoing Tsubame, sparking a new adventure: starting their own drama club and stepping into the spotlight. https://ow.ly/utXO50XyiwO

MGD ch.18 translation notes! #魔法少女ダンデライオン #MagicalGirlDandelion JP: どっちでもいいけどよ (Either would be fine) EN: Hey, I'm not judging. It's important to know where to imply things vs where to not in EN for impact.

Random MGD TL thoughts. I'm pretty happy with "Oh! You're a--oh!" The JP's "Oh...! Y-you're a magical girl!" But this wouldn't have fit the best in the bubble. It's fun to use real speech quirks like this to imply meaning. #魔法少女ダンデライオン #MagicalGirlDandelion

I’m off on vacation for the week but it looks like hope you’re happy lemon is finally on sale. I’m the letterer for th3 print version, and wooieee was it a lot of work but working with the art was a lot of fun. I’ll try posting some lettering examples when I’m back.

Lmao friend tried to draw my character mascot from memory… honestly, better than the original leafmob/10

screaming crying throwing up

Definitely emailing all my clients ASAP. Mori Kaoru-sensei is one of my "dream" authors to translate. Lemme tell you, I would absolutely LOVE to work on Shirley (if it's re-licensed) or the latest collection of Mori-sensei's oneshots. It's unlikely, but it can't hurt to ask!

Got a new simulpub. Can't wait for you guys to see it!! Me n the team are working super hard on it, heh heh...!!

Had an interesting chat about Rurihiko's name and how it foreshadows both the fact that he'll be a magical BOY and what kind of flower it will be. This is probably all pretty clear to JP readers, but sadly not so much to EN ones! #MagicalGirlDandelion #魔法少女ダンデライオン

JGarden today #J庭58

Soup and a pizza. You just can’t beat Saezeriya lunch prices.

thank you for letting me make your dreams into memes @amaki.bsky.social

By the way, I’m translating this!!!

By the way, I'll be translating Stella Must Die ^^ Super excited to be doing my first hard(er)-boiled fantasy. And I was a huge fan of Yasunori Mitsunaga-sensei's Princess Resurrection growing up and then later Naqua-Den, so it's super exciting to get to work on something of his!!

Every time I see it, it's so good 😭

Shade in the newest chapter of MGD be like #MagicalGirlDandelionFA #魔法少女ダンデライオンFA

New chapter out next week! SO. Some random Magical Girl Dandelion translation lore time.😆 #魔法少女ダンデライオン When I first drafted the last 2 pages of ch.9--where Prima and Stella are introduced, I was unhappy with what I wrote--it felt...TOO MUCH. First draft:

OMG thanks for the follow back!! I read The Fool, The Absolute Madwoman two days ago and it was soooo gooodddd!!!! I swear, the art style was just eye candy and I couldn't stop flipping back and forth across the volume to look at my fave panels >_< I am looking forward to your future works!!! :D

I'm so happy to say I was the translator on this! Matusuo-sensei has a wonderful sense of humor, their art is really soft and cute, and their dialog writing was just...utterly chef's kiss. If you love weird, socially awkward romance + BL, I def recommend picking this one up!