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Comic by bkub I just saw: (TIL there's a Japanese onomatopoeia for the transforming noise, and it's ガガギゴギ)

Masami Obari mentions getting into an SRW game (Cross Omega's Pop Team Epic event) when discussing "Things 80% of your followers probably haven't experienced". Terada adds: "For the record, this was not Obari-san's idea. It was my request, and I was honestly expecting him to say no."

Comp copy day! Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick, volume 5, in which we see the origins of Chun Li's signature "Sorry!" pose from Street Fighter.

automaton-media.comThe titles of Japanese manga have literally doubled in length since 2011, according to studyJapanese e-book distributor and publisher BookLive recently conducted a manga analysis based on title and purchase data (source: GameBiz). The study examined how the titles of manga have changed in content and length over the years, as well as purchasing behavior, the diversification of reading habits, and the relationship between these three variables. It was discovered that manga titles now are roughly two times longer than they were 15 years ago. Not only did the average number of Japanese characters in the title of a manga’s first volume jump from 9.14 in 2011 to 18.45 in 2026, but the median also increased from 8 to 16 characters in the same […]

Beat Fortune's Weave at just around the 150 hour mark. That is a lot of game. While I'm glad to put it down for a while, I'll be looking forward to whatever DLC eventually comes out for it.

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lete lyre@C108乙

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『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social

The titles of Japanese manga have literally doubled in length since 2011, according to study https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-titles-of-japanese-manga-have-literally-doubled-in-length-since-2011-according-to-study/

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Square Enix Manga & Books

@square-enix-books.com

1 Sept

The anime season may have ended, but Mimi’s shenanigans are just getting started! Always a Catch! Vol. 8 is on sale today! 🐟

27 Aug

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tpwrtrdmn

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26 Aug

Replying to @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social

I'm fascinated by the implication that a large number of presumably young adults think the writers of a toy cartoon are the ones deciding what to name the toys.

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Gideon Zhi

@aeongenesis.net

22 Aug

AGTP Major Release Update for Project srw4 ~ Super Robot Wars 4, out now! Link: https://aeongenesis.net/news?date=2026-08-22T09:32:54-07:00

@russelllatshaw.bsky.social

19 Aug

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RTL3

3 Aug

Everyone else home, unpacked, back to work Me, in an anime shirt, still hanging around the convention center:

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RPG Site

@rpgsite.net

1 Aug

Super Robot Wars Y will have the Version 1.4.0 update on August 4 and the Anniversary Expansion Pack on August 5 as its last additional content: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/21021-super-robot-wars-y-anniversary-expansion-pack-releases-on-august-5-after-version-140-update-on-august-4

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RPG Site

@rpgsite.net

1 Aug

Bandai Namco is working on a remaster of the 2011 PSP release of SRW Z2-1 which will be released worldwide, including in English as Super Robot Wars Z II Ruination Remastered: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/21020-super-robot-wars-z-ii-ruination-remastered-in-works

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Clea

@friendzoo.moe

30 July

fantasy maiden wars is out on switch now, and if you're curious about it, or touhou on general, even a LITTLE BIT, PLEASE read jake's article. this game really is an incredible labor of love that deserves to be played and talked about

JAKE@guiltyjake.bsky.social

To everyone reading this right now. I'm JAKE. I'm the Japanese person who recently published this article and promoted it on Twitter (X). note.com/guiltyjake/n... This article introduces Fantasy Maiden Wars, an amazing game I absolutely love.

note.comEveryone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKEHello, world. I'm Zyake. I'm born and raised in Japan, and just your average video game nerd. First and foremost, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for opening this page. And if you can...

23 July

The Something Awful Let's Play thread for Super Robot Wars Impact got to my favorite bit of dialogue in all of part 1.

13 July

comic-walker.com【新連載告知】2026年7月開始の新連載告知第１段！ | カドコミ（コミックウォーカー）

2 July

Looks like there's a new Code Geass/Gundam Wing crossover manga story called Menuet Zero starting soon. comic-walker.com/label/comicn...

30 June

A fan asked Kazuma Kaneko about the Dis Astranagant on Twitter, and he actually responded! Terada added a quote with his own remarks as well.

30 June

Today I learned that the horse Trombe ("tornado") in Super Robot Wars OG wasn't based on Char's horse from CCA, and was instead based on Ryo Sakazaki's horse from Art of Fighting 2, whose name is Tatsumaki (also "tornado").

22 June

Heavens, would you look at the time

18 June

Comp copy day! Uncle from Another World volume 13, coming out July 28! The games in the back are American Sega Genesis classics this time.

10 June

Assembled a metal slime today \o/

Someone in a "Sexy" Jeremy Parish Halloween Costume

2 June

Now that volume 7 is officially out— I've taken over translation work on Always a Catch!, AKA that one romance fantasy series with the girl with the knuckle duster hairclip. I hope the readers enjoy the latest volume! And for those unfamiliar, there's an anime this season on Crunchyroll!

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@jparish.bsky.social

25 May

Pretty sure that Fei Fong Wong’s pull-tab can of Soylent System grub is in the running for funniest action figure accessory of all time

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Gideon Zhi

@aeongenesis.net

24 May

AGTP Major Release Update for Project rrfa ~ Real Robots Final Attack! Finally Link: https://aeongenesis.net/news?date=2026-05-24T11:57:50-07:00

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Relena Witchcraft | CEO of Roux Louka

@relenawarcraft.bsky.social

7 May

I have verified this with my source. Said source is incredibly reliable: he was the translator for the first official English releases of Gundam anime in the late 90s (the movies and the sidestories). He actually knows where these came from, and the sources came from Japan! 🧵

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27 Apr

Summoner in FF14 is relaxing because I can just push buttons and as long as I've pushed all of my buttons by the time my big button refreshes, I'm basically playing optimally. (Or so I choose to believe as a casual; I retired from high-end raiding during ARR)

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20 Apr

I was discussing Super Robot Wars Impact with a friend recently and had to share this gem.

comicsbeat.comInterview: Mahjong Pros' Harrison Doan details its new manga divisionThe Beat chats with Harrison Doan, Head of Partnerships at Mahjong Pros, about plans for the company's new manga publishing division.

17 Apr

Today I learned there's a Getter Robo mahjong manga. Maybe I should learn mahjong.

Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social

Interview: Mahjong Pros' Harrison Doan details its new manga division "We are dead serious about both mahjong and manga, and we plan to bring over titles that will genuinely surprise people."

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RPG Site

@rpgsite.net

15 Apr

Bandai Namco will hold a new Super Robot Wars livestream on April 20 that includes a segment for SRW Y, which also raises speculations of a new Expansion Pass coming for the console game: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/20126-new-super-robot-wars-livestream-on-april-20-will-include-an-srw-y-segment

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Gubaba

@gubaba.bsky.social

5 Apr

Found on the bird site.

store.steampowered.comSave 20% on Fantasy Maiden Wars - DREAM OF THE STRAY DREAMER - on SteamCommand a legion of more than 70 beloved Touhou Project heroines on an expansive quest to uncover the cause of mysterious incidents blossoming throughout Gensokyo. Deploy units on grid-based maps to b...

20 Mar

Fantasy Maiden Wars is currently 20% off on Steam, and I assure you this is a LOT of game for $28 bux. Like three and a half Fire Emblems' worth of SRPG gameplay, all with a single contiguous story. store.steampowered.com/app/3575980/...

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Kanna's Nr.1 Fan!

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17 Mar

Sakura Wars Lost Media Found for the First Time!! I was recently able to obtain and scan 30 NEVER BEFORE SEEN Character Design Sheets of the Shanghai Revue and its supporting cast from the cancelled Sakura Wars MMO! I hope you'll enjoy them! archive.org/details/saku...

I have many thoughts about it, but I believe his statement was oversimplifying. EN and JP both have tools in their linguistic toolkits that the other language doesn't. East Asian languages' plethora of 1st and 2nd-person pronouns is just one example of this among many. But... 🧵

Dragon Quest Slime Time@dqslimetime.bsky.social

@dramata.bsky.social what are your thoughts on Yuji Horii's recent Famitsu interview and his thoughts on Japanese to English translations?

There's also terms that used broadly in JP but require narrower words in EN. 鰐 can be crocodile or alligator. 栗鼠 can be squirrel or chipmunk. 鼠 can be mouse or rat. Not that EN's much better - the word "set" can be a noun or verb or adjective, each with its own separate words in other languages.

Languages are complicated, culture-suffused devices that use different tools to express ideas. I get why a director would stick with the instances that come up most frequently in his work, but there's a more nuanced discussion to be had. There's no "better" or "worse" when it comes to languages. ✂️

Dragon Quest Slime Time@dqslimetime.bsky.social

@dramata.bsky.social what are your thoughts on Yuji Horii's recent Famitsu interview and his thoughts on Japanese to English translations?

EN gets its own fun expressive tools, like how we can turn most nouns into verbs and still have the result sound coherent. We can capitalize words to denote proper nouns without relying on special brackets like JP media often does. We also have definite and indefinite articles.

But I do envy East Asian languages' ability to construct entire sentences referencing a person without ever once using a third-person gendered pronoun. That's way harder to do in EN, which makes it a challenge to translate properly when someone's gender is being obfuscated on purpose.

Dragon Quest Slime Time@dqslimetime.bsky.social

@dramata.bsky.social what are your thoughts on Yuji Horii's recent Famitsu interview and his thoughts on Japanese to English translations?

Even sticking with the 1st/2nd-person pronouns point, the inverse also applies when translating EN to JP. Imagine how challenging it is assigning those to every single speaking character in a major work of English-language media, and keeping it consistent across multiple iterations and publishers.

JP also has places where the language oversimplifies in ways that EN doesn't. East Asian languages often leave plurals vague—葡萄があります could mean "There is a grape" or "There are grapes", and you have to just kind of infer which one it is when there aren't any visuals provided.

5 Mar

Comp copy day! \o/ Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick volume 3 is out in stores on March 24! In which there's a surprise appearance by BOB (not the most inspired acronym...), Arus does his best Ultraman impression, and we get an impromptu geography lesson about Loran and Carmen.

Remember the old 2000s fansub days, when groups would race to get subs out so that they'd be the first and get the most viewers even if it meant tons of preventable errors? Or how some groups would pick a neglected series/genre, produce a slapdash, low-effort TL, then go "It's better than nothing"?

Jason Prime@blazingwaters.northsky.social

The point of a fan TL is to give others access to media they wouldn't otherwise be able to appreciate. If it won't reach people, your efforts are better spent elsewhere. The existence of this MTPE slop translation is actively disincentivizing all potential serious translation efforts in the future.

THAT is the problem with "better than nothing". MTPE fan TL is worse than nothing. It's actively detrimental to the games supposedly being translated and the community at large. It makes players associate the game with slop. It forestalls good-faith translations. It wastes everyone's time.

Jason Prime@blazingwaters.northsky.social

But even that point is just beating a dead horse. The real problem is that this slop is being pushed out for a game that has no prior translation, so this will be the version that any interested people play and draw their impressions from. Being first makes it WORSE, for reasons outlined below.

After this, if someone wants to do a legitimate translation of Segagaga, they'll only reach a fraction of the initial TL's audience. Obviously most people who've played one TL aren't going to come back for a second TL, no matter how much better written and more reliable it is. They've moved on.

Jason Prime@blazingwaters.northsky.social

MTPE (machine translation w/ post-edit) is just another tool of people who think this way. They don't know and have no way of knowing if their TL is accurate. They stubbornly insist generative algorithms produce reliable work that just needs a little spitshine, despite all evidence to the contrary.