The Manga Critic
@mangacritic.bsky.social
She/her. Manga critic. Musicologist. Movie buff. Road warrior. Animal lover. Find my manga reviews at http://mangabookshelf.com.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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Everybody is working for the weekend...
Witness the tale of the #GreatMetalGod by @iwakunikogyo.bsky.social
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Witness the tale of the #GreatMetalGod by @iwakunikogyo.bsky.social
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December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Everybody is working for the weekend...
Witness the tale of the #GreatMetalGod by @iwakunikogyo.bsky.social
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Witness the tale of the #GreatMetalGod by @iwakunikogyo.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Today on Okazu - Okazu 2025 Yuri Gift Guide
Okazu Staff writers with their best picks for a Yuri-ful holiday season for you or the Yuri fan in your life. ^_^
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Okazu Staff writers with their best picks for a Yuri-ful holiday season for you or the Yuri fan in your life. ^_^
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today on Okazu - Okazu 2025 Yuri Gift Guide
Okazu Staff writers with their best picks for a Yuri-ful holiday season for you or the Yuri fan in your life. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/09/o...
Okazu Staff writers with their best picks for a Yuri-ful holiday season for you or the Yuri fan in your life. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/09/o...
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Wrote a piece seven years ago about how the passing of Holocaust survivors and the re-emergence of fascism was not a coincidence. It didn't occur to me that their deaths would also drive anti-semitism in general, but I suppose I should've seen that coming as well.
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Wrote a piece seven years ago about how the passing of Holocaust survivors and the re-emergence of fascism was not a coincidence. It didn't occur to me that their deaths would also drive anti-semitism in general, but I suppose I should've seen that coming as well.
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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The Manga Letters – Interview with Sabrina Heep by @sara.pizza
Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.
Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.
The Manga Letters - Interview with Sabrina Heep | Yatta-Tachi
Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Manga Letters – Interview with Sabrina Heep by @sara.pizza
Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.
Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.
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jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and i want that for me dot png
very few people can truly understand just how cathartic this is @kaijubigbattel.bsky.social
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Wife creates 'Godzilla rage room' for man having tough year
A California woman said her husband was having a tough year, so she created a "rage room" for him to destroy while wearing a Godzilla suit.
6abc.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and i want that for me dot png
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Last year we had the Green Yuri. This year we have a Red Yuri in the form of Love Bullet, a manga that's not just a viral success story but a damn good yuri manga in its own right.
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Holiday Review #16: LOVE BULLET
It's seasonally fitting that after we got a Green Yuri last year, we get a Red Yuri this year to match it. LOVE BULLET ( Rabu Baretto ), by...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Last year we had the Green Yuri. This year we have a Red Yuri in the form of Love Bullet, a manga that's not just a viral success story but a damn good yuri manga in its own right.
mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...
mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...
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This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
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I can't imagine revealing to the whole world in 2025 that I got a PhD and still don't understand that there are economic forces more powerful than my own individual choices and merits that shaping whether I get a TT job.
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can't imagine revealing to the whole world in 2025 that I got a PhD and still don't understand that there are economic forces more powerful than my own individual choices and merits that shaping whether I get a TT job.
My employer is pushing faculty to use more AI tools. So, as an experiment, I asked three different chatbots to give me a syllabus on the history of radio (I subject I teach). All three were fine, but they left out all the interesting stuff: barn dance shows, pirate radio, border blaster stations...
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My employer is pushing faculty to use more AI tools. So, as an experiment, I asked three different chatbots to give me a syllabus on the history of radio (I subject I teach). All three were fine, but they left out all the interesting stuff: barn dance shows, pirate radio, border blaster stations...
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Move fast, break the government, and starve people.
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Move fast, break the government, and starve people.
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Wrote about comics, music, and being a son, sparked by a short read from a talented creator. I ended up buying that new Dylan project on record store day recently because of Oshimi’s work.
good art often leads to more art, whether im making it or taking it in.
good art often leads to more art, whether im making it or taking it in.
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Me and Shuzo Oshimi’s “Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)”, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/12/17/m...
Me and Shuzo Oshimi’s “Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)”, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/12/17/m...
Me and Shuzo Oshimi’s “Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)”
By David Brothers Shuzo Oshimi is a cartoonist who is largely known for works that blend youth and perversion, in the specific sense of a deviation from the norm, but still with all the sexual subt…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Wrote about comics, music, and being a son, sparked by a short read from a talented creator. I ended up buying that new Dylan project on record store day recently because of Oshimi’s work.
good art often leads to more art, whether im making it or taking it in.
good art often leads to more art, whether im making it or taking it in.
Signs you’ve watched too many samurai movies: during a lecture on the Woodstock Festival, I praised “Sanada” for their fiery performance of “Evil Ways.”
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Signs you’ve watched too many samurai movies: during a lecture on the Woodstock Festival, I praised “Sanada” for their fiery performance of “Evil Ways.”
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The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.
Conservatives have their own "gender ideology" they are pushing constantly, and it's one that's built on coercion and treating women like property.
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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We are shipping orders through DEC 20th, before going "on holiday" till the new year~
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We are shipping orders through DEC 20th, before going "on holiday" till the new year~
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The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé and Sold To Another Kingdom is ostensibly just another LN adaptation about a magical woman dumped by a bad fiancé only to gain a better one, but its take on sisterly love is far stronger.
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Holiday Review #10: THE TOO-PERFECT SAINT: TOSSED ASIDE BY MY FIANCE AND SOLD TO ANOTHER KINGDOM
Of course, a lot of the romance manga these days comes in the form of light-novel adaptations, which are often just as much about the self-i...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé and Sold To Another Kingdom is ostensibly just another LN adaptation about a magical woman dumped by a bad fiancé only to gain a better one, but its take on sisterly love is far stronger.
mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...
mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/2025/12/holi...
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Rumiko Takahashi Anthology. I don't think any of Takahashi's short-form work is available right now, which is an absolute shame because she really shines there. The anime focuses mostly on the stories about housewives and salarymen, and things that shake up their everyday lives.
Name an anime you're sure barely anyone has ever heard of that you discovered on your own (no prior recommendations) & wound up really enjoying & wish more people would check out. Share your cool finds with a reply or quote
I have a few, but right now I'm going to go with Shinken Legend Tight Road.
I have a few, but right now I'm going to go with Shinken Legend Tight Road.
Shinken Legend Tight Road: A Standalone Story Mode Without a Fighting Game
In our modern times, the apparent standard for most new anime is to run for one entire calendar season, or roughly 12/13 episodes; this is o...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Rumiko Takahashi Anthology. I don't think any of Takahashi's short-form work is available right now, which is an absolute shame because she really shines there. The anime focuses mostly on the stories about housewives and salarymen, and things that shake up their everyday lives.
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Please support our latest project - we have 10 days left in the campaign and we're 53% funded!
We're still raising money to print THE CANNIBALS - here's artist Tinguu with the proof copy - check out the @kickstarter.com campaign to find out more: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fie...
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Please support our latest project - we have 10 days left in the campaign and we're 53% funded!
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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Happy pub day to this wonderful book! bookshop.org/p/books/back...
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Happy pub day to this wonderful book! bookshop.org/p/books/back...
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.