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Simply Gee @simplygee.bsky.social · 8h

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Simply Gee @simplygee.bsky.social · 8h

I'm on my first-ever solo trip, travelling internationally, and there's something wonderful about being 100% in control of what I choose to do every day

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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A.J. KazSPOOKY! 👻 @abandonedrocketship.com · 1d

I would have read a version of this book with twice as many chapters. Of course I savored the sections that helped fill in my blind spots, but I enjoyed the coverage of what I already knew almost as much. Here's hoping some college comics courses integrate it into the required reading.

Cover of Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by Eike Exner, featuring art by Tetsuya Chiba from The Sworn Magic Ball.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Simply Gee @simplygee.bsky.social · 1d

IKYMI: @whimpix.bsky.social and I spotlighted tge new books from @mangamavericks.bsky.social!

Check it out:
open.spotify.com/episode/379x...

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 3d

Manga Mavericks Books announced at #NYCC2025 they licensed the following titles

• Horon of The Closed Country by Sen

- Digital Winter 2026, Physical Summer 2026

• Sinbad by Atsuji Yamamoto

- Digital & Physical Summer 2026

$6.99 Digital / $14.99 Physical for both titles

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

[Kodansha Manga] Mushishi Collector's Edition Volume 2 (Hardcover) pre-orders are up at
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mushishi-collectors-edition-2-yuki-urushibara/1147835419
Amazon […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

Scientists in China have developed a tough new bamboo-based plastic that biodegrades in 50 days. The new material matches the strength of engineering plastics used in cars and appliances while retaining 90% of its durability after recycling. buff.ly/zXWVoIS
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Biodegradable plastic made from bamboo is strong and easy to recycle

Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars and appliances

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 5d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 7d

Manga Plus announced starting that today:

All new serialized works Weekly Young Jump will be translated & simulpub’d worldwide in English through the platform starting with 'BUNGO -unreal-' by Yuji Ninomiya

It does not state who’s doing the translation (Medibang/Orange Inc.)

#Manga #MangaNews

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Lynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 8d

"To become mature is to become kind" is actually beautiful.

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 8d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 10d

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#KodanshaHouse

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Seven Seas Entertainment @sevenseasentertainment.com · 12d

The NYT bestselling #danmei series—now in beautiful hardcover editions with special embellishments and new art!

Pre-order GRANDMASTER OF DEMONIC CULTIVATION: MO DAO ZU SHI (DELUXE HARDCOVER NOVEL) Vol. 1! #PreordersLive #7SeasBooks #SevenSeasDanmei

sevenseasentertainment.com/books/grandm...

Pre-order Now: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 1. The New York Times bestselling novels that inspired the manhua/comic (also available from Seven Seas), animation, and the live-action series The Untamed! This deluxe hardcover rerelease of Seven Seas’ bestselling English-language paperback features special embellishments: a dust jacket with all-new art and foil lettering, a new foil illustration against linen-texture graining on the hardcover itself, stunning endpapers, elaborate printed edges, and a ribbon bookmark. Story by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. © 墨香铜臭 (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu) / JJWXC / Seven Seas Entertainment. Available in Print November 2025.

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Last Gasp of San Francisco @lastgaspbooks.bsky.social · 13d

REMEMBERING STAR FRUIT BOOKS PUBLISHER MATT HAASCH, 1990-2025
by Zach Davisson

www.tcj.com/remembering-...

Remembering Star Fruit Books publisher Matt Haasch, 1990-2025 - The Comics Journal

Zack Davisson pays homage to the late Haasch, who died of cancer on Sept. 6.

www.tcj.com

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 13d

Reminder: The Credits Roll Into the Sea will begin its English release in March! Pre-order Volume 1: https://bit.ly/4oU520x

After turning 65 & losing her husband, Umiko visits a cinema for the first time in years—and realizes that she’d like to make a film of her own.

By John Tarachine

Cover of The Credits Roll Into the Sea Volume 1 by John Tarachine

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 13d

Online manga platform Manga Planet announced today they are shutting down their website in Match 2026 due to recent restrictions from payment processors and the changing online landscape

They announced their focus will now shift to physical print releases

#Manga #MangaNews

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Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · 16d

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

Four frames comic about two types of Isekai I found and read lately. The first frame shows a young man with a sword. He says: "My name is Josh Itcantbehelped and I used to be a loser before a car crash brought me to a world where I am a god and half the population is made of SLAVE CATGIRLS". The second frame shows him crying and clenching his fist, with many a cat behind him, wearing bikinis. He says "To make it here I guess I have no choice but to own as many catgirls as I can...how tragic...". The third frame shows another character from another type of Isekai. She's a woman with a fluffy dress. She says "My name is Elise Robespierre and after being hit by a truck of terminal cancer I am now in my favorite 900 pages novel. With many a hot man.". The fourth frame shows her giving a board presentation to citizens, with graphs and pictures of plants on it. She says: "Hello citizens. This is my plan to modernize the agricultural system and prevent any further plague by creating medicine [...] taxes which ..." the text becomes unreadable as she keeps talking to her captive audience.

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

J-Novel Club has announced on their YouTube stream that they will launch an all-you-can-read subscription (Readers Membership) October 3, allowing subscribers to read a large catalog of completed J-Novel Club light novel series or the first 3 volumes/more of […]

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

[Kodansha Manga] Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier Volume 14 pre-orders are up at
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Hat-Atelier-Kamome-Shirahama/dp/B0FDJHS1ZP
BAM! https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Witch-Hat-Atelier/Kamome-Shirahama/9798888776858
B&N […]

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

[Kodansha Manga] Inouesatoh's 10 DANCE Volume 8 pre-orders are up at
BAM! https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Dance/Inouesatoh/9781646515622
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/10-DANCE-8-Inouesatoh/dp/1646515625
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/10-dance-8-inouesatoh/1145047172

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

[Kodansha Manga] Tomo Takeuchi's Welcome to the Ballroom Volume 12 pre-orders are up at
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Ballroom-12-Tomo-Takeuchi/dp/1646519914
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/welcome-to-the-ballroom-12-tomo-takeuchi/1147700381
BAM! […]

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 18d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Yen Press @yenpress.com · 18d

Cover Debut! - A Bride's Story, Vol. 15

Despite her love for Smith, Talas is saddened to be leaving the homeland she loves so dearly. How will the Smith family react upon meeting their new daughter-in-law?

Pre-order Here: buff.ly/l09974C

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