I saw the word TTS and for a second I thought of Tung Tung Sahur instead of Text to Speech 💀💀💀💀💀

Incredible. Will watch no matter what. A trailer like this, that is this long, for a show that isn't due for over a year? Production must've been healthy. Lowkey reminds me of The Elusive Samurai, 2024's best anime.

Life in the Zashikiro: A Discussion with Hiroshi Harada An in-depth interview with Hiroshi Harada of the independent Kiryukan production company: covering his filmography, personal history, political views and more...

Really extraordinary interview with Hiroshi Harada, the independent animator who adapted Suehiro Maruo’s Shōjo Tsubaki to film, among many other endeavors: aarondylankearns.substack.com/p/life-in-th...

New License: Working as a Goddess! Story and Art by Mizuhira. There’s no rest for the hard-working as one woman learns when she goes from overworked in life to working harder in the afterlife—as a substitute goddess! An adorably hilarious josei manga about two women trying their best. After working herself to the bone for a shady company, poor Kasumi died from overworking! But if she thinks she’s getting a break in the afterlife, she’s got another thing coming. Right when she’s about to start her second life, she’s suddenly pushed into a job—as a substitute goddess! Thankfully, she has the help of the very capable angel, Mashiro, who will guide her through this new responsibility. But is she really the right person for the job to deal with other reincarnated souls—and their personalities?! ©Mizuhira 2025 / KADOKAWA CORPORATION. Available from Seven Seas Entertainment January 2027 (Print/Digital).

Brand-new license announcement! WORKING AS A GODDESS! by Mizuhira. There’s no rest for the hard-working in this adorably hilarious josei manga! One woman goes from overworked in life to working harder in the afterlife—as a substitute goddess.

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New License: Sleeping Dead (Omnibus). Story and art by NEMUI ASADA. In this dark Boys' Love manga, an incident leaves one man caught between dead and alive—and stuck with the man who made him that way. Sada is an earnest high school teacher admired by students and colleagues alike. One night while walking through the city, he stumbles upon a student being violently attacked in an alley. As he tries to call for help, Sada finds himself on the end of the attacker’s blade, bleeding to death on the ground. When he wakes up on a slab in an unknown laboratory, he comes face-to-face with his savior, a scientist named Mamiya. But Sada quickly realizes that in cheating death, he has become something...inhuman. What's more, he's now fully dependent on Mamiya to survive. What awaits him in this new life of death and deadly secrets? © NEMUI ASADA 2021, 2022 / FRANCE SHOIN Inc. Available from Seven Seas Entertainment December 2026 (Print/Digital).

Brand-new license announcement! SLEEPING DEAD (OMNIBUS) by NEMUI ASADA. In this dark Boys’ Love / #BL manga, an unfortunate incident leaves one man caught between dead and alive—and stuck with the man who made him that way.

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Dropped my phone (thankfully on a soft mat so it was unharmed).

New license: The Apology of Noumi-Senpai. Philosophy and love collide when two university students search for their souls’ missing half in this Boys’ Love manga! Noumi Masataka, who’s living the self-indulgent university life, joins a book club after being invited by his professor. There, he meets Tan Eito, an underclassman in the same philosophy department. Eito is serious, openly gay, and utterly unconcerned with other people’s opinions. Combine that with his striking good looks, and Masataka is very much intrigued. He decides to approach Eito, but how will the superconfident junior react to his easygoing senior when they couldn’t be more different? For Mature readers. Story and Art by Koala Omugi. Available from Seven Seas Entertainment October 2026 (Print/Digital).

Brand-new license announcement—UPDATED! THE APOLOGY OF NOUMI-SENPAI by Koala Omugi. Philosophy and love collide when two university students search for their souls’ missing halves in this Boys’ Love / #BL manga.

That damn sign cracks me up every time...

"Welcome to Yakima, the Palm Springs of Washington"

WTF DO YOU MEAN ONE OF THE SKET DANCE OPENINGS HAS "BUMBOCLAAT" IN THE LYRICS???

We are going to fall in love. We are going to live.

Just finished reading Saikano. An emptiness. In me.

Partner is beyond hooked on Rose of Versailles, but they keep keep keep asking me "ummm so is the next episode when Oscar dies? Is it the episode after that? When is it??" Like girl chill 😭 cherish your time with her instead of dooming smh.

Losing faith in India every passing minute. Genuinely can't complain about US nonsense when back home it's just as bad. Like this latest Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College debacle. Working in education makes me more sensitive to the fact that screwing with student futures is just 💔💔💔

(I know nothing about this other than its name)

She watched

This is an achievement on par with Yamamoto Souichirou getting three of his works adapted into anime in the same year, 2022 (they even aired in back to back seasons iirc).

This anime season, we have:

Yuusha-kei ni Shosu

Yuusha Party o Oidasareta Kiyou binbou

and

Yuusha Party ni Kawaii Ko ga Ita node, Kokuhaku shitemita.

Has there been another moment in anime history with three concurrently airing titles that begin with the same word?

Photograph of three white goats

Mushishi, Glaeolia, Houseki no Kuni...

Hyakuemu's acclaim reminded me of the Uoto interview asking about anime influences where they went "idk I don't watch much, but I love Eupho & Shirobako so much they gotta be influential for me". Wanted to rant so much about Kumiko and Myaamoru it split off into a separate blurb. Truly based author

Knew Ikoku Nikki was going to be good because the source material rules and the staff's good, but goddamn what an amazing first episode. So far brilliant structure to bypass pacing issues, direction that really understands the core of the series, and waaaay better animation than it'll get credit for

What do you mean there's a Six Seven restaurant in Seattle...

It's in Belltown by the water, should I go? 😭

An image from the manga Suiiki by Yuki Urushibara, depicting a dam with the reservoir behind the walls and the river flowing out of it. Deep beneath the waters of the reservoir lies the sunken ancestral village of the manga's main character. The reservoir subtly resembles a womb, the dam a vagina, and the river an umbilical cord. It reflects how the village was ultimately what birthed our main character and how it still remains connected to her through the water (she lives in a modern town downstream from the river, which is the source of her home's water supply).

Urushibara Yuki the GOAT. There's a scene in Suiiki where the MC realizes her ancestral village doesn't exist anymore (sunk by a dam) but still birthed her and lives on through her. Then I see this panel. The unmistakably earthy, feminine imagery of a womb, vagina, and umbilical cord. It's genius.

The cover of Mushishi Collector's Edition volume 1.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. Rough open block letters are surrounded by a screen tone that is scraped away in places, and sometimes crosses into the interior of the letters to mimic the original sound effect.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. The original sound effect is cut in half by the arc of a slash. The english subtitle is nestled within a gap and is similarly bisected.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. The original sound effect is over art with rough line art and dense screen tone. The line art was drawn approximately up to the edges of the katakana, and sometimes the screen tone is scraped away. The english sound effect is in an area with more dense line art, so it has an uneven outline made of the screen tone to keep the letters legible. Those outlines keep the tone contiguous with the art. White scraping is also visible.

There's a new English release of Mushishi, lettered by Phil Christie (@kernedout.bsky.social). I adore how Urushibara-sensei utilizes texture in her art, and how the sound effects inherit that texture. Phil does an amazing job replicating that with subtitled SFX. Notes in alt text!

NVM I checked comments, I'm not as original as I thought...

There's that one European country where they put a fish in the bathtub for Christmas so ig a bathtub is technically an aquarium, and thus an ideal setting for yuri.

Still thinking about them...

Might actually be done with the other app, for good. Will start posting my thoughts here.

Tamon-kun making me wonder why I've never checked out Takane & Hana. Perhaps I should...

The only thing stopping me is the relative lack of activity from those I know.