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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit thanks for the reminder to watch this

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Atom @atomheartmother.bsky.social · 24d

The world has moved on from #GlassHeart #jdrama, but #MachidaKeita as Takaoka Sho still lives rent free in my mind and he has no intention of leaving. 🫠

Picture of Takaoka Sho playing guitar, smiling and threatening my sanity while showing his naked shoulder.

Picture of Takaoka Sho looking beautiful and desperate

Picture of Takaoka Sho looking beautiful and sad

Picture of Takaoka Sho holding a guitar pic between is lips and looking shamefully hot.

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like zeztz suffers from the opposite problem of geats where things are happening TOO fast with not enough information and time given to you to be invested

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 10h

Sure the twist about Nem is big, but it means nothing if we never had enough base information about her confirmed beforehand. The story keeps twisting information without properly establishing it, and it's very confusing and frustrating to watch.

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 10h

we're on episode 6, and I still don't know what to make of Baku as a character. What are his goals? Becoming an agent doesn't really count because technically that already happened, but more importantly what, specifically, does he want to accomplish?

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 11h

sorry time for my weekly zeztz hater time but I feel like I'm going insane seeing people say this is good...just having a twist doesn't mean it's good writing!! I feel like there's all this set dressing that is there to distract from the fact that the plot AND characters are really weak

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 2d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”

And why they’re right to be scared

blog.pureinventionbook.com

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

I need to watch may I ask because i've been a fan of that manga for a while LOL... The mangaka also did this sengoku vampire manga like years ago that I really liked

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

This is certainly true!!

minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

I swear if I had still be working there at the time I would’ve been able to point it out LOL

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that the text in the White Bitch Forest isn’t a font, it’s just the unfortunate handwriting of the designer behind the logo that no one seemed to notice LOL

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Fey (フェイ) @feytaline.bsky.social · 1d

do you ever just think about about the White Bitch Forest

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

If it’s a scene with a character who refers to themselves as Boku talking to someone who uses Watashi, that alone is an indicator of the speaker even if they’re off screen.

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

Not all manga even has tails with their bubbles, and a lot of that has to do with character voice being connected to the literal grammar of the lines, making it pretty easy to tell who is talking at times.

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 1d

Someone else already mentioned it, but inverted tails on speech bubbles are called 逆ツノ in JP! The tail is called a “horn” (ツノ, tsuno), and 逆 (gyaku) means “inverted”. It’s common in manga with variations being drawing a small face of the character speaking to indicate whose line it is.

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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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 2d

I want to revise chapter 3 but my meeting isn't until next Wednesday!! I am going stir-crazy

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 3d

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 2d

This may be how I’m able to draw manga professionally, now that I think of it

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 3d

it was said by someone like half a year ago that learning how to deliver passable if not good work under both immense pressure and short notice is actually an important part of the college experience and an incredibly useful skill and the person who said that was right

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 3d

it was said by someone like half a year ago that learning how to deliver passable if not good work under both immense pressure and short notice is actually an important part of the college experience and an incredibly useful skill and the person who said that was right

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

In my experience you always make it together with your editor and then they either have it checked by the EIC OR present it to editorial, not both. So I don’t know if this is like, a stopgap they’ve put in place here or what

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just not sure what to make of this since everything seems to be going through the EIC before the editor meeting and I can’t tell if that’s a good thing or not…

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

Okay I took a nap and am feeling less grumpy after asking my editor if she thinks it’s possible to finish everything by the nextish editorial meeting (she said she thinks so, as long as my schedule allows it)

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

The idea of making it past this and getting dropped at the final meeting is honestly pretty shattering

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

More revisions…mainly chapter 3 so I guess that’s good. I don’t have my meeting until next week Wednesday though :/

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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t get over how romantic Hyuna and Luka’s cover of Karma is…I keep imagining that in the Happy World Hyuna is a performer and Luka is her accompaniment/husband

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