Strange Encounter: A Guest Post by Jim Rion - B&N Reads Viral sensation Uketsu returns to the chilling world of Strange Pictures with a dark new story told through the lens of eleven mysterious buildings, with each one laying the groundwork for a sinister ...

Barnes & Noble and HarperVia asked me to talk a bit about my work translating Uketsu for the B&N Reads blog to coincide with the release of Strange Buildings. It's up!
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Translating Uketsu's Strange Mysteries With Jim Rion An inside look at how STRANGE PICTURES and its two sequels became a global sensation, from the translator who was there from the very start.

The awsome Michelle Delgado of the Scare Me! Newsletter very graciously interviewed me about horror (Japanese et al.) and translating Uketsu, and it is now live!
I really need to work on my verbal tics. Way too many "like"s and "very"s...
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Time for book post! 📚 A huge thank you to @pushkinpress.com #PushkinVertigo for sending me a copy of #StrangeBuildings by Uketsu. I cannot wait to read this! I haven't read Strange Pictures or Strange Houses so excited to get stuck in with this! Thank you! 💙📚

Have been taking a little break from board gaming to do some reading. Listened to the #StrangeHouses audiobook. Now I’m reading #StrangeBuildings

And I have #StrangePictures queued in my ebook library account

I’m hooked!

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Translating Strange Buildings Strange Buildings is out, and it’s the best Uketsu yet.

With Strange Buildings out worldwide, Jim talks about some of the fun, and challenges, of the biggest Uketsu book yet. #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings

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Lol, the "search terms" box inside WordPress never seems to work but one did register today.
No, buddy, it's not real.
Unless it is?
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Thank you @pushkinpress.com for this fabulous copy of #StrangeBuildings by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion. Out now from Pushkin Vertigo. 💙📚
I loved #Strangepictures so cannot wait for more riddles Uketsu-style! 😍

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Strange Buildings by Uketsu - 4 of 5 stars.
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Upcoming Translations 2026 is well under way. January has blurred by, and as February approaches I am stunned to realize that I have two translations coming out next month. First up is a title that has probably flown under the radar for many. The Ark by Haruo Yuki is a dark mystery about a group of university friends and one hapless family trapped in a bizarre underground building after an earthquake.

Jim has two translations coming out next month, and they're some great ones: Strange Buildings and The Ark.
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Cover of Strange Buildings: A Novel by Uketsu

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Oh daaamnnn. I love Strange Pictures, so I guess I'm going to read this one too.

Strange Translations I seem to have become known as "Uketsu's English translator," which is certainly not a bad thing to be. But it does mean I get quite a lot of questions about the works, some of which I can't even answer. Like, no, I don't know how Uketsu got his ideas. No, I haven't seen under his mask.

An update on current and upcoming English translation of Uketsu books.
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"The World's Littlest Skyscraper" or the Newby-McMahon Building in Wichita, Texas was built in the 1910s by a con artist who promised investors a new skyscraper. But his blueprints used inches instead of feet (e.g. 480" tall versus 480' tall). According to legend, nobody noticed till it was too late, and a judge ruled it legally binding. It stands just 40 ft or 12 m tall, and is listed as a Texas Historic Landmark.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #444: The World's Littlest Skyscraper.
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