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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 7h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 7h

A San Francisco Event that will also be streaming.

"Pictures Run Riot: Exhibiting Manga at the British Museum and at the de Young Museum"

www.usfca.edu/event/pictur...

Pictures Run Riot: Exhibiting Manga at the British Museum and at the de Young Museum | University of San Francisco

www.usfca.edu

Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 21h

Met friends at the 12th Street BART station in Oakland and we headed to San Francisco to check out the manga exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. This is one massive exhibit covering the medium and a series of creators. More than worth attending.
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

Art of Manga

Manga — Japanese comics and graphic novels — have become a global phenomenon. Art of Manga showcases the world of manga from the 1970s to today.

www.famsf.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 1d

www.nippon.com/en/japan-dat...

“Demon Slayer” Tops Manga Poll Among Japanese High Schoolers

A survey of young Japanese found that their favorite manga include Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and The Apothecary Diaries.

www.nippon.com

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 2d

www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Full Count jeans maker embodies craft and value of Japanese denim | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the jeans he revered most—the Levi’s 501s of the 1940s and ’50s, the bedrock of blu...

www.asahi.com

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 2d

www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

NANA Celebrates 25 Years With Special Vivienne Westwood Cover

The exclusive collector's volume of Nana is a dream come true for fans of Ai Yazawa’s iconic Vivienne Westwood fashion illustrations.

www.tokyoweekender.com

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 3d

Not only that many of the others will be Edo specific.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like a tacky Hollywood movie set designed by someone with minimal knowledge of Japan.

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 3d

A report from a Korean government official stated last week that takedown requests of pirated Korean webtoons overseas has risen 8-fold from 2020-2024, but last year 91․2% of takedown requests failed.

Korean Gov't Official: Webtoon Piracy Cases Surge Eightfold in 4 Years, but 91% of Takedown Requests Fail

Webtoon category now accounts for 77% of all content-related takedown requests

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

#MythologyMonday today is all about favourite mythology-themed books, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to share some of my favourite books about #JapaneseFolklore and #yokai. Here's a section of my bookshelf to get started. I'll share my recommendations in separate posts.

A bookshelf with a collection of books about Japanese folklore, mythology and yokai.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

My first book recommendation for #MythologyMonday is anything by Matthew Meyer (@yokai.com). His books are absolutely amazing and they feature his full page illustrations and information about each yokai. Matthew is continuously illustrating new yokai and translating the folklore into English.
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Five books by author Matthew Meyer, each in the same style but with different coloured covers. Books are listed on his website yokai.com

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Cartoon Art Museum @cartoonart.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Banned Books Week (October 5-11), a celebration of the freedom to read. We’re proud to have exhibited original art from numerous challenged and banned comics and graphic novels throughout our 40 years. Thanks for your support in helping us showcase these works for all to (re)discover and enjoy.

Cover of the graphic novel 'The Best We Could Do' by Thi Bui

Cover of the graphic novel 'Gender Queer' by Maia Kobabe

Cover of the graphic novel 'Out From Boneville' by Jeff Smith

Cover of the graphic novel 'The Prince and the Dressmaker' by Jen Wang

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 3d

I fucking HATE the speed that lies travel faster than the truth. Before reskeeting something, ask "Is this real?"

Then confirm that it is.

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 4d

Today on Okazu – They Were 11!

Moto Hagio’s award-winning science fiction epic is out now in a beautiful omnibus edition from Denpa Books!

okazu.yuricon.com/2025/10/05/t...

On a painted blue background, a pale face, shadowed in blue, surrounded by characters that represent humanoid species.

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David Miranda 🦊🇨🇴 @dubudavid.bsky.social · 4d

The title “Bastard chickens who don’t know how to shut up” for this gachapon got a pretty good chuckle out of me

Bastard chickens who don’t know how to shut up gachapon

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't see almost all American movies and TV shows made after 1972. I went to college and was too broke to go to the theater and avoided owning a TV so I could have reading time.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 4d

And plan that Tokyo trip to include checking out the statues and manhole covers in the neighborhood. A list of them and their locations is on this page

www.koyagi.com/TokyoStroll/...

Tokyo Stroll Supplement: Katsushika Ku

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Ghoulish Beveridge @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social · 4d

No simulcasts showing up? Great time to go watch more KochiKame anime.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a cartoon scene

Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a cartoon scene

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 4d

[X] the Ancient Japanese Art of [Y]: The Mobilization of #Japanese Metalinguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Literature

Recording of a lecture I gave at JSAA2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElW...

X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

www.youtube.com

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 5d

Also Apple's Book app.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING 🚨Japan to have a female Prime Minister
But it's not progress
Sanae Takaichi, "the Brendan Carr" of Shinzo Abe, threatened critical TV networks as communications minister, lies that foreigners kick Nara’s deer, claims she speaks to The Gods
#InsaneSanae bodes badly for Japan
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The Rise of Japan’s Female Trump: Why Takaichi Sanae Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Japanese Democracy Since Abe 2.0

Takaichi endorsed “Hitler’s Election Strategy” in the ‘90s, threatened TV networks as communications minister, claims foreigners abuse Nara’s deer without evidence and speaks to the Gods #InsaneSanae

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 5d

Apple removed it from the Apple app store. As far as I know those of us who have it can still use it.

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