Now that @cranchyroll.com and I have successfully willed ourselves into lettering Billy Bat, we're dedicated to being annoying about Tsutomu Takahashi until we're lettering his manga too.

These are all real.

Three copies of Billy Bat volume 1 in English.

Totally surreal feeling that I can hold an English copy of Billy Bat in my hands. Even more that I got to work on it with @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and @editortiina.bsky.social. Super grateful to @abramskana.bsky.social for bringing it bringing us on.
Order it!
www.abramsbooks.com/product/bill...

It's funny too because in HD ReMix you go from KH1 Final Mix with the new colours to Re:Chain of Memories with the original colours and then 2 with the new colours again. There's a mod to revert them thankfully because the Final Mix colours suck ass

1hr and 34 minutes condensed into 60 seconds.

I made so many friends in Facebook groups a decade ago that I still interact with regularly long after those groups are dead and it's basically locked me into keeping my Facebook so I don't lose touch with people. Hate it but they're my fellas :(

Really want the US to stop being so shitty because on late nights I think longingly back to the $1.50 slices of pizza I got in NYC that were better than any pizza I've ever had in Canada

Yo!!! @lettererbrendo.bsky.social lettered the Cyberpunk Edgerunners manga!

More of a Drakengelion type deal is what I'm hoping

Cover of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1 is available now! Grab your copy: https://bit.ly/4b1roJi

The official prequel manga to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners!

By Bartosz Sztybor, Asano, Stefan Kiełbasiewicz, and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social. With @cdprojektred.com #DHManga

There's also times when streamers play games that just aren't great for their usual vibe so you get such a weird tonal mismatch. It's like an unspoken tug-of-war between a game trying to be serious and a streamer needing to never turn the silly off to keep chat satiated if that makes sense

Cover of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1

Reminder: Coming in February from Dark Horse Manga and @cdprojektred.com, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4qiEQwB

The official prequel manga to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners!

By Bartosz Sztybor, Asano, Stefan Kiełbasiewicz, and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social

Cover of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1

Reminder: Coming in February from Dark Horse Manga and @cdprojektred.com, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4qiEQwB

The official prequel manga to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners!

By Bartosz Sztybor, Asano, Stefan Kiełbasiewicz, and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social

I am once again open for work! Please contact me if you’re in need of a JPN to ENG translator. I have tons of video game and light novel experience and would be thrilled to bring my unique voice to your projects!

FIRST LOOK 🚨: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1 releases on February 24th! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4qiEQwB

The official prequel manga to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners!

By Bartosz Sztybor, Asano, Stefan Kiełbasiewicz, and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social. With @cdprojektred.com

The thing that depresses me in the whole AI revolution in my industry (I’m a literary translator and publisher) is that the question is not whether machines can replace human translators, but how will we deal with the fallout after machines are forcibly introduced regardless.

Cover of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1

Reminder: Coming in February from Dark Horse Manga and @cdprojektred.com, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4qiEQwB

The official prequel manga to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners!

By Bartosz Sztybor, Asano, Stefan Kiełbasiewicz, and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social

The first pictures of the English release of Billy Bat are out! So excited show show off what @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and I did.

These pages have fun bits where we styled the text closer to what an American comic from 1949 would look like. More info in the alt text!

🦇Billy Bat is almost here!

If you want to read Billy Bat before its release, we are doing a galley giveaway! Go to our giveaway post on our instagram for more information!

www.instagram.com/kanamanga_us/

📚Billy Bat Volume 1 will be out June 2, 2026!

#BillyBat #Manga #Translation #Kana

Working on a project alongside talented teammates is incredibly rewarding. I love that I get to work on Billy Bat with @lettererbrendo.bsky.social because it means I get to open a page and see amazing sound effects. Constant inspiration to push our work further.

I promised some samples of lettering from the manga
Hope You're Happy, Lemon by Mizuki Kishikawa, so here we go. It's now on sale!

Kishikawa's style is really fun, and super busy at times, and I had a lot of fun trying to match it.

Like, I didn't think Funimation's dub was terrible or anything, but to me the whole film felt different because of it. It didn't feel like a totally suitable substitute for someone who may not be able to watch it in Japanese with subtitles. Also hated how they pronounced Gojira, haha.
Common NYAV w

Wow, surprised there's a new dub.
Honestly I wasn't really a fan of Funimation's dub. It came across way too detached from the physical performances and the script and types of voices they were doing didn't come across very natural. NYAV's dub seems much more promising in all aspects.

Chloe Zhao, please bring me and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social on as consultants when you inevitably realize that Billy Bat is the best thing in the Kodansha catalog

I don't think Asmongold's living conditions would really become any worse on the streets tbh

Please don't post this kind of language. I just imagined in my brain that several of those words are different words and it's actually very fucked up

Like, I think most viewers would be okay with subtitles not always being super crisp for the sake of the convenience of watching on something other than a PC. Or at least they could provide text-based subs as an alternative. This just doesn't seem like the best thing for viewers

Could they not get image-based subtitles to work on lower-end devices instead of re-encoding? I can understand ASS not working on like an iPhone or a smart TV but something similar to PGS or VOB maybe? At the very least they could get sign subs at the top of the frame if it must be text-based.

I have added fifty new movies to the Plex server; every Dexter series has also been added--I will continue to procrastinate watching it for years to come. I've finished replaying Peace Walker and am now replaying MGSV. I'm watching Twin Peaks again.

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