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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken volume 8 is out in English now, and my friend Brendon @lettererbrendo.bsky.social lettered it. Oowara-sensei has a cool style that utilizes lots of digital assets, but is still full of lines and text drawn by hand. Here are some panel comparisons that stood out to me.

16/10/26, 2:44 pm6 reposts24 likes

Aidan Clarke

@cranchyroll.com

Dark Horse as a manga publisher doesn't have hard rules about subtitling vs. replacing signage, so there's a mix of methods. I appreciate the stylization for the subtitles on items that would be prohibitively difficult to replace. It's a dense manga, and Brendon told me it was arduous to work on.

Aidan Clarke

@cranchyroll.com

Fantastic bit here. Brendon said he considered using a handwriting-style font for this page until he saw this line. The hand-written text does get replicated across panels, but as exact copies that get transformed, not re-written.

Evan Hayden

@electronvolcano.bsky.social

They way that Principal's Office sign was done is splendid! 💎 Maintaining the Japanese and sort of in-world subtitling it. I too try to do that whenever I have the available space / OK from editor... It's a great way to keep as much of the artist's original art while still making it accessible.