Chickpeas work well in recipes that are originally designed for chicken, but for ground meat recipes this stuff often works better. It needs some spices, but costs next to nothing.

Saito-yu in Nippori is okay with tattoos. They're probably the most centrally-located one. www.1010.or.jp/map-en/item/...

Takehiko Inoue did that for the Slam Dunk movie, and it's almost unfair how he's not just a great mangaka but apparently also a great anime scriptwriter and director.

Not many of those aside from Katsuhiro Otomo and Satoshi Kon.

Yes, Apple's translation app indeed has nothing to do with LLMs. This year they just built a new interface for people to use it with headphones.

Realistically, piracy is also a big factor. People who have spent their whole life reading manga in English online are just not used to seeing manga in their mother tongue. They might even lack the vocabulary to talk about it, and probably see it as a silly curiosity.

They're cheaper than American imports in Finland too. The people who don't like them think that's a proof that they're cheaply-made trash.

They've decided to publish works for older audiences too – Inio Asano and so on. But I'm not sure if they understand the reality of how much the local audiences find Finnish a childish language.

Nowadays Ivrea, the Spanish publisher, is back in Finland, since Shueisha decided to pull all their titles from the established Finnish publisher when it changed ownership, and gave the titles to them.

Sweden has always had more action, and still has. But the common wisdom there is that you can only publish series that haven't already been published in English, since everyone would have already bought them.

(2013, I mean.)

It depends. Egmont was the only publisher in Norway, and after they pulled back from manga publishing globally in 2021, no manga has been published in Norwegian since. In Finland it only killed less than half of the market.