Beat's Bizarre Adventure is Back! with hilary on eggs, ilgin reviewing dystopian sf, and @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on the bl beat once again

you didn’t hear it from me, but the best crew to ever recommend comics

after this week, we’ll be on hiatus until early jan. until then…Beat’s Bizarre Adventure Will Return

this was a busy week in the BBA headquarters

@fujoshiunite.bsky.social on dicks! @dcrow.bsky.social on dicks! @danmorris.bsky.social on…not dicks

@fujoshiunite.bsky.social on a one-volume BL, @dcrow.bsky.social on an award-winning manga, and i covered an early series by the scriptwriter of oddtaxi!

@fujoshiunite.bsky.social wrote about a spooky BL mansion! @dcrow.bsky.social went back to an old Tokyopop original! I wrote about CHAINSAW MAN

A new series for your October watchlist has arrived! A spoiler-free taste-test of This Monster Wants To Eat Me, available on Crunchyroll.

Hilary wrote about Tokyo Ghoul! @adorabirb.bsky.social scrolled into "The Ghost of Bongcheon-Dong!" @fujoshiunite.bsky.social went to hell and back with MADK! All this and more in our newest Halloventure installment!!!🦇🎃💀

Created a BL Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog in Edelweiss www.edelweiss.plus?catalogID=52...

this week: hilary back again on the BL beat! @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on arranged dating! i wrote about when i worked down the street from comet ping pong!

as this piece gets at, old shojo comics are where it's at. back in the day you had stuff like mars, basara, even the 70s classics like hagio and takemiya...

Our September edition of From Our TBR PIle is live! Featuring titles from @yenpress.com, @izepress.com, @square-enix-books.com and One Peace Books! @turnarounduk.bsky.social

Lrt oh no just noticed i forgot to add the excerpt 🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭

Manga Review: NEIGHBORHOOD CRAFTSMEN is a love letter to traditional Japanese craftsmanship Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda's Gokura-chou Volume 1 Writer & Artist: Akihito Sakaue Publisher: Yen Press (print & digital) Translation: Ko Ransom Lettering: Abigail Blackman Publication Date:…

Can a monster disguised as a person teach how to be normal and make friends to an anxious human girl? Read Common-Sense Monster and find out!

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: THE BATHROOM GHOST creeps out This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers RESENTER, ASUMI-CHAN IS INTERESTED IN LESBIAN BROTHELS! and THE BATHROOM GHOST.

Forgot to share yesterday but Glacier Bay is at SPX!! Table I1 come say hi!

Imai Arata's ( @arataimai.bsky.social ) new book FLASH POINT / Glacier Bay edition published NOV 2024. We also reissued Imai's first book F! Please enjoy the never-before-seen trailer for FLASH POINT created by Zach Godin.

You need to back this. If I don't get that Yumi Tada book, I will die.

we’re back to digging through young magazine, featuring @fujoshiunite.bsky.social, hilary and myself

Hello! We're running a @kickstarter.com campaign for 5 new titles: BAKU CHAN / CURSED BODY / BALCONY / BEETLE / TRUE BLUE kickstarter.com/projects/gla... NEW GIVEAWAY ✂️🔍📢 - follow @glacierbaybooks.com - like+repost this post - comment which books you're most excited for Closes SEP 10 11:59pm PST

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Wait why arent my blog posts automatically shared on bsky 😱 And why am i only realizing now??!!

Impulsively started a substack for my animanga/comics/etc reviews and other thoughts that don't totally fit anywhere else I post things haha open.substack.com/pub/mashazar...

Aww wish it was open to non-us residents as well 😞

a boy’s daydream

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

Dive into this brand new shojo manga that mixes action, humor and romance just the right amount! Mechanical Marie is out from Yen Press.

cybergal returns

KING’S MAKER #1 Review: The characters suffer, so the readers must suffer too "King's Maker" has it all: political intrigue and tension, slow-burn romance, and a chaotic horse.

Acclaimed creator Jun Mayuzuki's short story collection "Farewell, Daisy" is a fun, compelling look at different facets of womanhood and desire

Lots of news out of AnimeNYC 2025 for LET’S PLAY! Over at @comicsbeat.bsky.social, I recently posted my interview with the anime team! #LetsPlay

@fujoshiunite.bsky.social on nervous high school boys, ilgın on gothic drama, and me on a new manga series from yen press I’ve been excited to read for ages

this time: hilary on evil orphanages! @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on a bl superstar! @danmorris.bsky.social on x, a manga series i love and also am still mad at CLAMP for never finishing

y'know, I've been a die-hard supporter of the Shonen Jump app, and lately the Viz app but this is literally Step One to publishers strongarming licensors to save a couple bucks on translators and letterers contact Viz... let 'em know I actually care about the quality of the products I pay for

Woooo hooooo! Happy 20th anniversary to @comicsbeat.bsky.social & huge congrats to founder & editor-in-chief Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social and the rest of the Beat & K-Comics Beat team for this well-deserved Eisner Award win!

Getting into the Japanese media translation industry, especially for manga, is a lot harder nowadays, but here are some resources for translators, letterers, and editors

This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: Ilgin on Chinese vampires, Hilary back on the BL beat, and @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on Hiroaki Samura and Russian history

Picking up from where we left off previously, now it's time to cover the university setting on Boys Love for Life!

yaaay I'm glad you enjoyed!!! tbh I read it thanks to @fujoshiunite.bsky.social, who has a wonderful post on it!! www.comicsbeat.com/his-romance-...

This week: Hilary on maid shojo comics! @dcrow.bsky.social on monster girls! and @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on the regency romance webtoon beat

This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: @adorabirb.bsky.social on Mesoamerican magical girls! @fujoshiunite.bsky.social wrote about a skeleton dragon! and @dcrow.bsky.social covered an old fave, Suzuka

Crunchyroll has revealed their Summer season #anime lineup so far!

Checking in on you for your biweekly dose of Boys Love comics! This time, doctors take the lead and are ready to heal or break your heart!

ANNOUNCEMENT –– NEW TITLE TRUE BLUE NEVER FADES by Tada Yumi @tadayumi.bsky.social Previously releasing their doujinshi THE MERMAID & THE PRINCE, I'm thrilled to announce we are returning to Tada Yumi's early masterpieces to publish their classic adult drama (originally in FEEL YOUNG, 1995).

This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: Ilgın wrote about smoking supermarket slice of life, @dcrow.bsky.social went back to the Junji Ito well, and @adorabirb.bsky.social covered a webtoon that's like Wind Waker meets Shantae.

Orange’s newest show, Leviathan is coming to Netflix on July 10th! One of the uniquest challenge and experience so special in working on this show. Based on American novel by Scott Westerfeld…

This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: Hilary covered a long-running favorite, Black Butler! @danmorris.bsky.social's write-up last week inspired me to finish the Alien Nine manga, while @fujoshiunite.bsky.social took a trip into Nihei world with APOSIMZ

There are so many sides to these arguments, but one I rarely see pointed out is the frustration. I experienced the analog-to-digital and not to sound like a boomer, but we had to wait for a lot of things 😂 we had like 3-4 casettes, if you liked a popular song, you’d still have to wait for it to +