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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 8h

I'm lettering this!

Manga Mavericks @mangamavericks.bsky.social · 8h

A tale awaits! Preorder Princess Da Huang & Other Tales from our store!

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Princess Da Huang & Other Tales

By Ohtori In the whimsical, beautiful, and very dangerous world of Princess Da Huang, humans live alongside bizarre creatures. This anthology spins several fairy tale-like stories where ordinary people and the supernatural intersect. From puppets with minds of their own to bizarre dragons with human faces, each page of

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Mel, the Herohom ( • `ω´ • ) @herohommel.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Ys vs. Trails launch day! I had the honor of authoring the digital art book that comes with the Limited Edition version of this Falcom fighting game!

Thank you, @refint.games for the opportunity! I poured my heart into it!

FGC friends: SEE ME. Yes, it has rollback netcode. ;)

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 1d

For the longest time I wondered why the comic font Whizbang has such an intense italic slant. Way more than most italic variants. Then I realized that it was a near-exact match for John Costanza's lettering and he just did that. Lol at how strong that shear is!

Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 1d

SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 1d

really incredible lettering work from @cornpunk.bsky.social in Baki, Vol. 1 💖

KA-SHING of two wrestlers kicking each other

DMF DMF DMF, DM DM DM, and “OOOH!l from wrestlers grappling

Dude with a bruised cheeck and bloody nose going “HYOU!!!”

Ripped guy jumping up to kick someone in the face with the SFX “BA-SHOOM”

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Ariana Maher @airy.bsky.social · 1d

I'd call them inward tails. Most western comics use off panel tails or avoid covering the speaker the tail is meant to point to, so I haven't had the opportunity to try them. Inward tails are pretty neat and, if done well, can be easy to understand in manga and indie books who draw from that style.

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, it's a manga thing! I feel like I don't see it as much in new ones I pick up, but it could be generational depending on the artist. A quick search in Japanese shows ppl calling it フキダシの内側(に)しっぽ or フキダシの中にしっぽ which both basically mean "balloon with the tail on the inside"

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike demo available on Steam buff.ly/uiXUsw6

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Logan 🍖🍃 Balestrino @loganpayge.bsky.social · 1d

Inklore Books is at NYCC! Come visit us at PRH booth #3021 and discover your next obsession~

We’ve got gifts with almost every purchase, some sneak peeks, and The Broken Ring Vol is on sale early exclusively for the con 💜

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Faye Duxovni | フェイ・ドゥホヴニ @duxovni.com · 11d

Started a new Hades 2 save file; I've been switching the language to Japanese now and then out of curiosity, and the localization team absolutely knocked it out of the park! Lots of smart, hard-hitting reformulations, and clever handling of tricky wordplay—it's really inspiring stuff 😍

Chronos, Titan of Time: *However long it takes*? You speak of inevitability, little one. A subject on which I happen to be the expert. As to whomever sent you after me... I shall find them.

クロノス、時の巨神：「必ず」…？残念ながら、“必然”を司るのは私の役目です。あなたを遣わせた者の正体も、“必ず”、突き止めますよ。

Polyphemus: "You know who's disrespected me like this? Nobody. Nobody took my sheep. Took my eye."

Melinoe: "Yes, well, sometimes we've no one to blame but ourselves."

Polyphemus: "Nobody's gonna pay for all that someday. But you're gonna pay right now. *Heh.* Metaphorically, I mean! I'm not gonna take your money. Just gonna eat ya... bones and all."

ポリュペモス：「おまえみたいに、オレをコケにしたヤツはいない。オレのヒツジを盗ったヤツはいない。オレの目を盗ったヤツはいない。」

メリノエ：「…そうね。自分のせい、ということもある。」

ポリュペモス：「この目のツケを払うヤツは、いない。おまえは、オレをコケにしたツケを払う。カネを払うんじゃない。オレに食われる。骨ごと全部だ。」

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Sendai Books @sendaibooks.eu · 2d

NEW PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE! 🌶️
🎨 Let’s Talk About Us by @38maekawa.bsky.social 💑

Custom-free and with FREE shipping! 🇪🇺
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Format: B6, 194 pages
From @futekiya.bsky.social

Let’s Talk About Us - Samba Maekawa

Free shipping! When they were classmates, Makito dreamed of being an idol, and Junpei painted his heart out. They'd only spoken to each other once, but little do they know the profound impact they'd h...

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

A free preview of Mitsuru Hattori's Monster-Colored Island (16 pages) is up on Bookwalker https://global.bookwalker.jp/de23c60a3b-7386-4929-b5fc-2c909082d4c5/

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K-ComicsBeat @kcomicsbeat.bsky.social · 2d

Inklore’s "The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway" (on sale October 21, 2025) delivers a darkly beautiful tale of love, trauma, and rebirth, as Ines struggles to break free from a cursed cycle of marriages.

Review: THE BROKEN RING: THIS MARRIAGE WILL FAIL ANYWAY, Volume 1 is a twisted tale of fate, freedom, and regret

Inklore’s "The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway" (on sale October 21, 2025) delivers a darkly beautiful tale of love, trauma, and rebirth, as Ines struggles to break free from a cursed cycle of marriages.

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Johnny L. @johnnylandmine.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Grant has that Dogsred in him @grantthethief.bsky.social · 2d

Tetsuya Chiba’s art! The flow of the action, the impacts, the sfx lettering, and the expressions have that kinetic oomph you need for selling meaningful fights indistinguishable from a modern boom. But it’s married to the more exaggerated body language + simpler character design ethos of the era.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 2d

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Let the Right Katch In 🧛🎃 @katch.bsky.social · Mar 11

❦ The Great Japan Instant Curry Review Thread 🧵

The instant curry section of a Japanese grocery store is a sacred space of affordability, convenience, & yumminess. As a gourmand in these parts, I will post my brief, unvarnished opinions.

☞ Ratings out of 10. A ⁵⁄₁₀ is good, though not exceptional.

A photograph of a fairly average single-serving instant curry selection at a Japanese grocery store.

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Let the Right Katch In 🧛🎃 @katch.bsky.social · 3d

❦ The Great Japan Instant Curry Review Thread Part 3🧵
(Curries 81-110)

The curries go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah! 80 curries in, & I think I've only scratched the surface!

☞ Ratings out of 10. A ⁵⁄₁₀ is a solid curry. There are better & worse, but 5s are meant to be average yet good.

The curry bookshelf! A delightfully massive selection of retort curries contained on a bookshelf in a store.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 3d

happy lesbian day, girl kissers

sara linsley @sara.pizza · Jan 12

Introducing my new comic book font, Girl Kisser 🧡🤍💖

It's all-caps, really pretty, super soft, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's hand-drawn with a micron pen and hand-traced into vectors, and it's perfect for comic book dialogue.

You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b1e9cc34d4

Large center text: "Girl Kisser", with tiny trans, lesbian, and bisexual pride flags poking out of the side.
Top left text: "Designed for use in comics"
Top right text: "Regular • Italic / Bold • Bold Italic", with each in their respective style
Bottom right text: "Manga characters ♪♫��♥※💢〜"
Bottom center text: "Free for commercial use"
Bottom left text: "internationalcharacters ¿¡ÁÈïÔŰ»"

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ru 🫐 @shrimpyru.bsky.social · 3d

lettering my first commercial series!
kaiju n8 in portuguese, nervous but super excited

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Mato @clydemandelin.bsky.social · 3d

From my book about #Undertale 's official English-to-Japanese translation

I'd like to expand on this for an article on my site, so if you have any examples of "imprinting" situations in fandoms, please let me know

Some quick examples include FF4, FF6, Trails in the Sky, what else?

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Madeleine Jose @meerkatotter.bsky.social · 3d

Made with topsters.org ! (Although covers are imported manually...)

Topsters 3

Make topster charts with music, movies, games, and more.

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J-Novel Club @jnovelclub.bsky.social · 3d

Hello world! We'll be posting our usual releases on here as well starting today! Yipee!

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 3d

The physical release for Kamudo vol 1 by Akira Himekawa is out now! Letters by me, translation by David Evelyn 💖
The cover is matte with spot gloss, and the book features color pages!!

Kamudo vol 1 laying on a wooden desk. The colorful cover features a demi-dragon boy holding a sword.

Kamudo 1 flipped open to a color page, laying on a wooden desk. The color page shows a young man standing in front of an erupting volcano, with the sound effects “GWOOO” and “DM DM DM DM” around him

Kamudo laying on a wooden desk, opened up to a black and white page. The page shows a group of dragons standing around a large shell that’s cracked open. In the next panel, the baby with a dragon hand who emerged from the shell is wailing “WAAAAAAHH”

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Madeleine Jose @meerkatotter.bsky.social · 3d

25(+5) Manga to Get to Know Me

Saw a games version, so I made one with manga I've worked on 🙈

Row 1: romcom, drama
Row 2: thriller, suspense
Row 3: queer media, gender identity
Row 4: unique art, dark fantasy
Row 5: manga about hobbies/crafts, titles from fav authors
Row 6: dream manga to work on

Thumbnails of 25 favorite manga I worked on and 5 dream manga

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exa @exaenae.bsky.social · 5d

props to the translator for attempting to do the
僕たちは
俺たちは
私たちは
リズちゃんたちは
medley in English without running into repetition issues god Japanese is a language

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