If I had a nickel for every manga I've seen use this exact plaid pattern, I'd have like 45 cents

Words cannot express how crazy and overwhelming the crossover/anniversary episodes of Hugtto Precure are to someone who's never seen a single episode before this series This cut (cuts?) is an INSANE feat of storyboarding and animation, and I can name exactly one character in it

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...

Wow, Arai Satomi is REALLY good as Bishin in Hugtto Precure. I don't think I've ever heard her play a villain before. She's basically synonymous with Kuroko from Railgun to me, plus some (other) comic relief characters here and there

Just read the first volume of Tsurezure Biyori. I am amazed and confused by how much the art changes between like ch 1-2 and 5-6 Backgrounds are absolutely incomparable, and the character art feels noticeably more clear and refined Also I love the wood grain on the bowl

I guess Toei has a lot of experience at this after all these years, but I'm very impressed by the way they adapt early 2000's character designs for a modern anime. Nagisa and Honoka look just a tiny bit out of place, they struck a great balance between old and new

Lion and Sousei no Aquarion might be the two most underappreciated 00's anison by western anime fans imo, so I was delighted to see AZKi sang both in one stream

My god, Hugtto Precure's henshin scenes do not disappoint. The duo one especially, it's nothing short of a masterpiece

Nice handwriting and balloon This kind of gradual deteriorating/declining lettering is fairly common in western comics, but I feel like it's pretty rare in manga

Started reading Koi yori Aoku, a manga about two girls who go to different schools, but meet one day on the train home and discover they're both reading the same novel Very iyashikei and very cute, looking forward to seeing how their relationship develops

How much does a magical girl popcorn maker cost And where can I buy one

Another new series I'm lettering, this time for SuBLime Manga, releases today: A Man Who Defies the World of BL!

Hugtto Precure ep 4's sakuga is INCREDIBLE. I've seen clips of the fight scene before, but the whole episode is fantastic. The detail in this one-off ice skating shot is crazy for a franchise that's been putting out an episode basically every single week for the past 20+ years

Some pictures are worth a lot more than a thousand words

Very bouncy

Figured it's about time I finally learn what REAL anime is all about, so I started watching an arbitrarily-picked season of Precure

More interesting handwriting in Akebi vol 6 The spoken heart balloon is cute

Fire head's Mercedes and the Waning Moon light novel series about a woman reincarnated as a vampire will get an anime adaptation.

I really like this combination of speed lines and smears (?) from Akebi vol 6

I'm pleased to announce that I discovered how to turn my Vtuber memberships into a tax write-off...and more importantly, that I had the delight of translating this manga for Square Enix! Working with @edomonogatari.bsky.social was a pleasure, and I think all the FubuMio fans will enjoy the results!

Happy to announce that I’m editing this OFFICIAL HOLOLIVE MANGA! Yes, I did watch a bunch of FubuMio clips as part of my research. 😉 Thank you to @deijoubu.bsky.social and @gregdeng.bsky.social for joining me in the wonderful world of Holoearth!

Hey, I lettered Hololive Yamato Phantasia! It was quite a lot of work - there's a lot of signs and SFX and the book is fairly long. But in terms of loc difficulty, I prob had it relatively easy compared to the TL/ED, given the story is completely FULL of references and jokes.

Sasakoi vol 8 has some very nice paneling. The panel shapes themselves are pretty standard, but it finds interesting things to do with relatively normal layouts

I think my favorite thing about Gakumas concerts is just the literal stages. There's so much personality and variety in them, you can really tell that each is designed with both the particular song or singer in mind. And I'm guessing this game has like 30-50 of them?

The only two times in Eupho S3 the word "hibiku" is used. I love how much restraint this series has with that word. Only euphonium players say it, in S3 only by Kumiko, and only in very special situations, but also without drawing a ton of attention to each instance

I think Eupho S3 is the first time I've given an anime a 10/10 in 3+ years I hope someday someone makes a good anime about an orchestra. Violinists in media are usually soloists, and it's usually the "lame" thing someone is doing before switching to a "cool" instrument (guitar)

Cleared NIA for the first time Both Anomaly subclasses feel a lot stronger than most other options (for early/mid-game progression), but Gakumas is smartly structured so it isn't really a problem. There's no game mode where Logic/Sense/Anomaly can compete against each other.

Eupho really got a TON of mileage out of this weird little outdoor nook

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Nice to see that Eupho S3 continues to dramatically light characters from slightly below

Cover Debut! - The Tiger Won't Eat the Dragon Yet, Vol. 4 Hekidou the dragon and Hakurei the white tiger are on a journey together —or at least that was the case until Hekidou was taken away by his birth mother, Shinsui! Pre-order Here: buff.ly/KFlqt2T

Euphonium S3 really drives home how uncompelling the first-years introduced in the movies were. Some of the new characters in S3 are so much more complex than the now-second-years. Suzume isn't just cute and silly, and Mayu isn't just gentle and shy 1/

Gakumas's profile customization is really slick. Lots of illustrations to pick from, you can add your own screenshots, and a lot of basic shapes to tie things together. Organized by layers that you can hide/lock, with options like transparency and clipping masks.

Seeing people playing Uma Musume gave me the gacha itch... so I started playing Gakuen Idolmaster, the unironic Slay the Spire gacha game. The Watcher is a bit complex but crazy strong, got my first ever A+ (of any class) on my 4th time playing it, not even using an SSR, just SR

I'm surprised and impressed by how often I see ZAQ pop up composing for other singers, even after starting her own singing career with two hits She wrote and composed the μ's swan song for the Love Live movie and absolutely hit it out of the park, and she hasn't stopped

Committing font crimes by mix-and-matching SS Spicy Noodles and SS Spicy Noodles 2

I expected the Akebi manga to keep the dad a nondescript background character, but vol 5 really surprised me. It's endearing seeing this guy awkwardly connect with a daughter he rarely gets to spend time with Such a shame that none of this made it into the show

Extremely amused to learn that toraburu (trouble) is not just a noun, but it can also be a verb, where the last syllable of it is just converted to a -ru verb ending

The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls official dance remix albums are pretty good, especially the latest one from 2022 I love when official license holders are willing to let others revisit old anison, like the 20th anniversary Lucky Star album from last year

Did Love Live Sunshine mix up Otonokizaka and Urajoshi's grand pianos? It's neat that there are slightly different models, it's a small detail that almost no one would notice, but there's also some weird inconsistencies here

Cover Debut! - With You, Our Love Will Make It Through, Vol. 3 Just when Mari and Tsunagu have finally taken a step closer to each other, a cat beastfolk appears-and she seems unusually close to Tsunagu! Just who is this feline...? Pre-order Here: buff.ly/5Ol3nUL

Did some tourism bureau pay the producers of LL for every time this shrine appeared in Love Live Sunshine? I think this is their third visit

LL Sunshine S2 is much better than S1 Aqours becomes distinguished from μ's in more meaningful ways than the differences S1 emphasized. Eps focusing on an uncommon pairing are a nice change of pace, LL often tries too hard to split screentime exactly between all 9 members

God dammit, Yohane, what the hell is this word

Hello, I lettered Phantom Invasion. Volume 1 has three (3) separate bath scenes. Godspeed. bsky.app/profile/yenp...

Sasakoi is such a beautiful manga And it's also extremely consistent, precise, and clean, which is probably hard to fully convey through individual screenshots

The Akebi manga has some pretty interesting sound effect designs

Hyakkano having a character named Kusuri who makes kusuri makes me very thankful for subtitles There wouldn't be any ambiguity in print, so I wonder if the anime had to adjust any dialogue just to clarify some lines

Yuru Camp's use of technology continues to be interesting in S3 It's easy to imagine a version of this show that's closer to Non Non Biyori or Tamayura, but I think camping in Yuru Camp ironically feels more accessible and grounded because of this stuff

I'd watch a movie like Black Swan / Perfect Blue about auditioning for a legally-distinct version of Love Live There's a lot you could do narratively with the idea of dedicating so much time and effort to becoming synonymous with a single fictional character