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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.

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.

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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.