When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

April 2026 Manga/hwa/hua, Light Novel, & Book Releases | Yatta-Tachi Here are the April 2026 manga, manhwa, manhua, light novel, and book releases from 14+ publishers, such as Yen Press, Seven Seas Entertainment, VIZ Media, Kodansha, Square Enix Books, and Omoi!

April 2026 Manga/hwa/hua, Light Novel, & Book Releases

From +20 publishers, such as @yenpress.com, @sevenseasentertainment.com, @viz.com, @izepress.com, @kodansha.us, @omoi.com, @darkhorse.com, @abramskana.bsky.social, & @square-enix-books.com

#manga #lightNovel #manhwa

April 2026 BL / Yaoi Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, Danmei, & Light Novel Releases in Print EJ brings you a complete list of April 2026’s official English BL print releases

April 2026 BL / Yaoi Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, Danmei, & Light Novel Releases in Print

EJ brings you a complete list of April 2026’s official English BL print releases

I'm TEMPTED to do a design log for @yattatachi.com's redesign for our monthly Patreon & Ko-Fi supporters. Not sure if there is much interest, but it might be fun to share the progress and plus, some behind-the-scenes look at what it will look like.

Not sure how frequent tho

👀 🚨💅This is quite biiiig!! Stop!! Hibari-kun! is now available at ALL Kinokuniya US stores, and their webshop!! For us as an art first, business later kind of publisher, this is so so exciting for us! Tysm thanks for supporting Peow2!!!!

I feel like I got a +25% speed buff

Finally getting around to learning design components so it helps make designing faster. I’ve been dragging my feet to learn them because it was hard for me to understand & seemed daunting to do, but after spending all day learning, I’m kicking myself for not learning them sooner. 😆

I am looking for environmental artists, particularly people with a strong background in concept work for interior locations

Atmospheric/ Liminal vibes appreciated

You can apply by dropping your art in the replies, or send your portfolio to:

regulareyepatchwolf@gmail.com

Humans only. no ai.

🚀 VIZ Media is hiring a Marketing Analytics Manager.

Full time, San Francisco or remote in California, Oregon, New York, or Texas, $90k-120k.

#jobalert #marketingjobs

www.viz.com/company-jobs...

We're hiring a fundraising manager! If you have business development or non-profit fundraising experience, consider joining our team!

Extremely proud that, in a field that struggles with funding and stability, we're offering a competitive salary with benefits!!

Hey folks, after nearly 4 years at Mad Cave, I was let go this morning. It was a wonderful time getting to work with an amazing list of creators. If we have worked together, please stay in touch. I am available for freelance editing and would love to work with you all in the future.

Sending lots of love to all those as Mad Cave who were unexpectedly laid off this morning. Extremely talented folks, some of my favorite to work with. I'm hoping everyone finds something new and stable soon! 💙

Zac as a 90's troll doll with the gem in the bellybutton is SOMETHING. I cannot wait!

Looking for a J-E interpreter for some paid comics industry work in NYC at the end of May/early June! DM me with a link to CV/video clips/etc. if you are such a person available at such a time!

Phew, we're back! At least for now. Something still feels shaky about it.

Pixels of the Week – April 19, 2026 A wireframing with ASCII text tool, a 3D pumping heart bag & a beautiful river-inspired font

My curated weekly newsletter is out: a wireframing with ASCII text tool, removing before adding as design principle and how AI speeds up code but not projects. Also: a beautiful river-inspired font, some Wikipedia rabbit hole and 3D printed pumping heart bag.
👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Looking forward to chatting alongside several of my colleagues at this teen library event! If you’ve ever wanted to know what jobs exist in manga publishing, be sure to check this out!

Keiichi Arawi
Nichijou, 2006

Donate To Help Sever Migration Costs

UPDATE: After a day of retaliatory action by our old host, our new dev has the path mostly cleared right now.

We are deeply thankful for all of the support, whether you donated or boosted, it means a lot. We have raised just under $1,700, which is almost half of our costs. 🫶🏽

I tried wayback machine and I get some wild funkiness like any history after 2022 isn't accessible. Not sure if that is related

Oooh, I hope y'all have this kind of display of books for ANYC. It's hard to shop when you have to wait in line to get access to what is available to purchase. If not, display a list of what is available somewhere so folks can know if they should hop in line or not!

Donate to Help Me Keep My Home & Cover Needs During Jobsearch, organized by Katriel Paige I have been facing long-term unemployment, and my unemployment benef… Katriel Paige needs your support for Help Me Keep My Home & Cover Needs During Jobsearch

It's 4/19. We're at 400/1300 first goal. Can we get to 690? Only $290 - and you'd be helping me renew an #accessibility certification to keep freelancing! #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest #InclusiveDesign #crowdfund

Clients we've done sites for that you can check out right now:
@jellybox.bsky.social
@vnstudioelan.com
@animeherald.com
@animefeminist.com
@gamesline.net
@distantvalhalla.bsky.social
@breelundberg.com
@yattatachi.com
Girltaku.com

Also to add that any website done by Hand Design is 100% coded and designed by two humans (me & my fiancé) and we are strongly against the use of AI in any capacity in our clients' projects.

It's part of the meaning behind the studio's name! Hand(made) + Design.

Hand Design Co. Hand Design Co. is a team of two folks who specialize in design and development with a splash of geekiness & whimsical fun.

If you run a video game studio and would love a delightful design for your company's website consider reaching out to us at @hand-designed.com:

✦ hand-designed.com

Starting at: $2.5K • Availability start in late March • We offer various payment options & try our best to work with folks' budget. 💜

If you are able to help support our site migration that would be amazing! I am very bad at asking for help but right now, @butwhytho.net needs it.

We have to get set up on a new host, work with a dev, and our old host still has not refunded us the $3k they took.

Anything helps!

In today's payment processor news: the adult manga publisher FAKKU has released a post about its recent payment processor issues www.fakku.net/news/an-upda...

Real talk, 10 years ago, I didn't even know lettering was a job (and an artform), let alone how important good lettering is in comics.

Lettering is one of those aspects of localization that is easy to forget about if it's good, but bad lettering can completely ruin your immersion.

It is! Ask any 956 local!

If you're able, here's @butwhytho.net's support page where you can subscribe OR give an individual, customizable donation: butwhytho.net/support/

They are having to weather a supremely shit situation with their host, so if you want to support independent games media, well, here's one way!