Cover Debut! - Blade & Bastard, Vol. 3 (manga) “Treasure awaits in a hidden room on the third floor of the dungeon”—so claims a dangerously suspicious rumor... Pre-order Here: buff.ly/7ikO4zF

I worked like a madman to make this book as perfect as possible. Please look forward to it!

for those who don't know, this is what Higurashi is actually about

Cool translation event coming up in Tokyo feat. Yuki Tejima, Jesse Kirkwood, Ginny Tapley Takemori, and Kalau Almony 👀📚 parallelwords-1.peatix.com

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

We welcome Jennifer & Christina to talk about their editing and translation work for The Mark of Erdrick manga. Please enjoy this discussion about the behind the scenes work it takes to bring a manga to English readers. open.spotify.com/episode/7acE... www.youtube.com/watch?v=huVP...

Hey, I was in another DQ podcast about Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick! Thanks, Slime Time. BTW, the book's out today~

a biracial friend once ranted to me about the vaguely dehumanizing microaggressivity of the "haafu" ("half") term for mixed-race Japanese people the fictional Bureau of Anomalous Fauna Information Management in RuriDragon apparently agrees! (the JPN version straight up uses the ENG word "double")

It's a double dose of green yuri today thanks to letterer @brandonbovia.bsky.social! Lettering handwritten notes doesn't necessarily mean rewriting everything from scratch! A keen eye for font selection and deft hand at skillful placement makes all the difference in a smooth reading experience!

Cover Debut! - The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse, Vol. 3 As Saya, Isami, and Kanoko journey together in search of Usa, the three unexpectedly come across a flower-filled mansion and its lone automated caretaker. Pre-order Here: buff.ly/hlzF0pZ

Blade Girl is really cool! I'm really glad I got to letter it, and hope you check it out!

Cat's Eye and City Hunter are out on the shelves early! (Too bad I already ordered them so I gotta wait a bit longer.)

In Memoriam: Matt Haasch “Matt was warm, friendly, and endlessly positive, with an infectious energy.” Azuki’s @evanminto.com honors the memory of the @starfruitbooks.bsky.social founder www.azuki.co/news/2025/09...

today's my birthday and it would mean a lot if you could share my portfolio🎈🎂 i hope i can letter more manga in the next year! rutelettersthings.carrd.co

I was curious about this and whipped up a quick spreadsheet for my series with easy data. Using averages for each series, so each is represented equally. Though there's a lot of variance, the average "line count" for the manga I've lettered is 1408! bsky.app/profile/kern...

We have the following Futekiya titles in stock and ready to ship! - Boss & Yasu - It's Still Too Early To Be Love - Setagaya Synchronicity Worldwide and US <3 yiggybean.com/collec...

Interested in learning more about the behind-the-scenes development for the English-language edition of Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick? Check out @jaasherman.bsky.social’s chat with @dragonquest.fm for all the details! 🎉

Always a Catch!, vol. 4 is on sale now! 🪻 The royal castle is set to host Maria and Prince Renato's official engagement party! But before then, will the culprit behind the garden attack on Maria and the queen make another move? 🧐

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I don't use imagetrace for my fonts because it doesn't do corners no matter what resolution the rasterized image is I also like to trace pen stroke by pen stroke to be able to make adjustments

Young Magazine US Special Issue is now available to read on kindle for free www.amazon.com/Young-Magazi...

🚀 Publang is hiring a Korean to English Translator. Freelance, remote, pay not listed. #jobalert about.publang.com/jobs/transla... Src: x.com/publang/stat...

🚀 Publang is hiring a Freelance Editor. Freelance, remote, pay not listed. #jobalert about.publang.com/jobs/editor

I can't believe it! I didn't see this coming at all! 🤯 My favorite manga from my @yenpress.com proyects is getting an anime! 💖 My beloved Jeffrey with that wonderful voice! 😍❤️ I'm so excited!😩😭🥹💕❤️ I'm also reading the novels and they're great, really! ✨❤️

This is such an honor, thank you so, so much 🥹 Please check out the series too if you can! It's such a wild ride and especially beautifully bittersweet toward the end. (Also, it's getting an anime movie?!)

“One shall live and the other shall die.” In a village where all the residents die upon reaching the age of fifty, a young girl named An seeks the truth about the mysterious inhabitants of the "other world" that the village offers sacrificed to. Land, Vol. 1 is available now: buff.ly/QvTbdco

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!!

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Bride of the Death God, vol. 1 is on sale now! 🥀 A story of enduring love, even in death, between a reaper whose existence has been affirmed for the first time, and a girl whose existence has never been affirmed by anyone.

Our second #LettererAppreciationMonth feature comes from Level Up With the Gods, Vol. 1! Letterer @fog.mediocrity.ca skillfully enters in the English translation into every item in this pop-up that Yuwon's seeing—and on an angle too! #LettererAppreciationDay

Because I just got my comps in and the word is already out there, I thought I'd take this opportunity to confirm I'm editing Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick. It's a great manga, and I'm excited it's finally getting an English release after all these years!

Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

🚀 Webcomics App is hiring Chinese-English comics/manga/manhua/manhwa translators. Freelance & remote! #jobalert www.linkedin.com/posts/webcom...

I should make a thread of Japanese to English translationisms that I frequently edit as someone who works on a lot of light novels and sees a lot of the same turns of phrase in narration. Consider this a thread now. #amediting #amtranslating

Matt is one of the best of us and puts out so much great manga that the bigger publishers won't take a chance on. Please donate to help his cancer recovery!

Come work with me and the Inklore team! We’re hiring an Editorial Assistant for our list of comics and webtoons from around the world. Position can be remote/hybrid! Send in your application at the following link by 9/5: bit.ly/4p3Q88b

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September 1st is Letterer Appreciation Day! But there's a lot of great books and letterers ...so we'll be spotlighting some great lettering every week until the end of the month with #LettererAppreciationMonth! First up: these panels from Bocchi the Rock!, Vol. 6 with lettering by Chiho Christie!

Flipped through Baoh again and love these sound effects by Wayne Truman. Different types of repeating E that connect differently! Cursive! It's so damn cool.

Some insight on why Kagurabachi simuls look different. ∙Simuls are lettered within 24 hours ∙Some letterers do 2-3 simuls (same day) ∙Chapters can arrive at random times ∙Corrections are done in-house, & text needs to be editable ∙It needs to be a font we have a license for

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Going back to analogue.

editor friends, my job is hiring an Editor - Fiction & Non-Fiction: www.viz.com/company-jobs...

Now that it's out, time for the usual. I was the team lead for Super Robot Wars Y! I oversaw the translators and editors, and I handled final review passes. I think this game's writing is something special, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

after all, while this may have been her first manga translation, she has extensive experience translating and editing game text. perhaps the best example of this was her editing for the english version of a3, which she did an incredible job with (see examples!)

so if you’ll indulge me, I want to say a bit more about what it’s been like working on The Otaku Love Connection with minami! minami and I first met when we both worked for cybird in tokyo. we quickly discovered that we were both deeply involved in otaku fangirl culture and liked the same media

I had the honor of translating the Frieren prequel novel!! It was so exciting to be there for the announcement and see the crowd's reaction! This is one of the loveliest novels I've ever worked on, and I really put my heart into the translation, so please look forward to it 💙

Land-ho! We’ve sighted Land at the Yen Press booth here at #AnimeNYC! Stop by booth 1701 for a chance to pick up some ✨magical✨seeds AND an early copy of Land, Vol. 1! 🌱