He/Him. Manga Editor
@SquareEnixBooks
(Angel Next Door, Clueless First Friend, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Ragna Crimson, Soul Eater). Opinions are my own.
I don't talk about my day job enough on here, so I decided to yap about it for 2 hours on a podcast! Tune in to learn a bit about my backstory and the manga industry!
Thanks again to
@BehindTheManga
for inviting me; I had a great time!
🚨New Episode 🚨
In today's episode we interview Edward Hong (
@edomonogatari
), a Manga Editor at Square Enix Manga (
@SquareEnixBooks
)!
We discuss his experiences as a manga editor, and more!
Check it out via the link below:
Or on other platforms!
A lovely story Masako Nozawa (Goku) shared with Mayumi Tanaka (Krillin) and Koichi Yamadera (Beerus):
One February, she got a letter from a father. "My son is ill and won't make it past this month," he wrote. "He loves Dragon Ball, so could you send him an autograph?" [1/4]
discovered the single greatest Yu-Gi-Oh duelist of all time the other day, i could not resist translating his peak anime Shooting Quasar combo and share it with y'all. this is THE real yusei.
Attached to this second letter was an additional note from the doctor. "We did everything we could to prolong his life as much as possible, but we still fell short. Now I understand the power of anime." [4/4]
Yoshino Aoyama (Bocchi) talked about how she fell in love with Bakemonogatari in middle school and would post clips of herself imitating Hitagi Senjogahara's voice on social media. The nice comments she got convinced her to go pro.
There would be no Bocchi without Monogatari!
"A miracle happened. My son got to watch the movie. Thank you very, very much."
Although the boy was bedridden, they carried him—bed and all—to a theater because he wanted to be seated for the movie no matter what.
The following day, he passed away at the hospital. [3/4]
Nozawa went one step further and recorded an audio message. "Hey! It's me, Goku! I'll be waiting for you at the theater! Promise me you'll come!"
There was a new Dragon Ball movie scheduled for August that year.
Six months later, the father sent another letter. [2/4]
Firsthand account of MAPPA and Netflix underpaying animators, in case any doubters are out there. Ippei Ichii was offered ¥3,800 per cut, which is a bottom-of-the-barrel rate for work he values at ¥15,000 minimum.
I watched 10 more videos on his channel. Happy to report that his entire gimmick is pulling off batshit combos with protagonist decks while screaming anime quotes in perfect Japanese. He has 2.4 mil subscribers.
Ain't nobody doing it like him in TCG land.
Yuki Kaji: "Hajime Isayama-sensei, thank you for bestowing us with the Attack on Titan manga. Thank you so much for the amazing ride. I'll devote my heart to voicing Eren Yeager in the anime until the very end. Our fight is far from over!!!"
Oshi no Ko
#01
This week's MVPs:
1. Kanna Hirayama, for supervising nearly 40% of all animation cuts in this 90-min premiere.
2. Rie Takahashi, for embodying Ai everywhere from live events to insert songs.
3. Yurie Igoma, for crushing it in her first-ever main role as Ruby.
Attack on Titan S4
#16
Things that impressed me most about Final Season Part 1:
1. Hosoya's spectacular performance as Reiner.
2. No shortage of scenic backgrounds.
3. How horny the internet was for Pieck and Yelena.
Good luck dodging spoilers for 8 months, anime-onlies!
Fairouz Ai shared a snippet of her kanji notebook, where she wrote down EVERY rare combination and reading she encountered while studying to be a voice actress.
You don’t just become Dumbbell’s Hibiki, Precure’s Manatsu, Stone Ocean’s Jolyne, and Chainsaw Man’s Power overnight!
The Frieren Cast's Favorite Scenes
-Atsumi Tanezaki (Frieren): E23, Frieren gets frizzy ringlets
-Kana Ichinose (Fern): E15, Stark and Fern's waltz
-Chiaki Kobayashi (Stark): E12, Frieren makes a big steak for Stark
-Nobuhiko Okamoto (Himmel): E14, Himmel gives Frieren a ring
Funimation has officially shut down.
Bakemonogatari episodes 13-15 and all of Koyomimonogatari are still unavailable on Crunchyroll.
Both of their Blu-ray sets are sold out on the CR Store.
There is no legal way for new fans to watch them.
A new season is coming soon.
Yusuke Murata wants everyone to know he thinks the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga is just as good as the anime. "The anime adaptation wouldn't have been such a hit if the source material couldn't already hold its own."
[Translation] Gege Akutami x Tite Kubo Special Talk
How did Bleach influence Jujutsu Kaisen? Why are Akutami and Kubo both digital artists now? What type of girls do they like?
Read to find out!
"I'm good at directing meme faces because I worked on Kakegurui," says Attack on Titan Final Season director Yuichiro Hayashi. What a powerful statement 😂
Learned from today's Attack on Titan livestream that Yui Ishikawa was still working part-time at a sushi restaurant while she was voicing Mikasa in Season 1. She's come a long way in the last 10 years...
Translated a touching
#MyHeroAcademia
fan manga by
@ars369
! It explores the question, "What if Ragdoll used her Quirk on All Might?" Enjoy!
(Warning: Spoilers and blood.)
Misaki Kuno released an emotional essay about her experience voicing Irumyuui and Faputa after Made in Abyss's season finale aired today. Summary:
-she felt immense pressure when auditioning for these roles, and was scared they would break her [1/5]
Kazuto Arai, director of Jujutsu Kaisen
#37
, has revealed that the two visual inspirations for Yuji vs. Choso were Cyberpunk Edgerunners (the lighting) and Kizumonogatari (the water effects).
To You, From Me
A generational adaptation of Anno Un's masterpiece manga. Directed, storyboarded, and solo-animated by the one and only Taiki Konno, whose artistic genius knows no bounds.
SO IT'S CALLED KIZUMONOGATARI (WOUND TALE) NOT ONLY BECAUSE ARARAGI AND KISSSHOT SCAR EACH OTHER FOR LIFE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE KIZUMONO (DAMAGED GOODS) IS A EUPHEMISM FOR A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER VIRGINITY, SINCE TURNING A HUMAN INTO A VAMPIRE IS CONSIDERED A SEXUAL ACT
Earlier this year, NISIOISIN answered 240 fan questions for his 20th anniversary as an author. Now, they've all been translated!
Here's a treasure trove of trivia about Zaregoto, Monogatari, Katanagatari, Pretty Boy Detective Club, and Nisio himself:
As promised, here's the long-awaited interview between Tite Kubo (Bleach) and Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia)! Read what these shonen manga titans had to say about each other's series:
In 2014, Naoshi Komi revealed that his biggest influence was One Piece. 7 years later, he got to redraw one of One Piece's best chapters. People's dreams don't ever end!
Due to the outpouring of love for Koyomi and Hitagi's marriage, I felt inclined to dust off the old translation blog.
Here's the audio drama NISIOISIN wrote to celebrate newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Araragi:
Just want to reiterate that “untranslateable” in this context doesn’t mean “impossible to translate,” but rather “not feasible to translate given the budget and time constraints.”
Also, a new ED (which premiered in China last week) with illustrations by THE
@Kuvshinov_Ilya
! Our protagonists look like they came straight out of a fashion magazine!
According to the Japanese reviews I'm reading, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp takes a more serious approach to the story and cuts out most of the comedy and perversion. Perhaps that makes it more palatable for general audiences?
Wataru Watari (OreGairu): "No thoughts. Head empty. All I know right now is that if manga aliens invaded Earth and their leader challenged us to a manga contest, I'd nominate Tatsuki Fujimoto as our representative."
Learned this week that music artists don't always know how their songs will be used in an anime.
Examples: Otoha wrote "Seishun Complex" for Bocchi the Rock as an insert song, not the OP; Queen Bee made "Mephisto" for Oshi no Ko without knowing if it'd be the OP or ED.
The final project for NISIOISIN's 20th anniversary as an author: an ani...mated conversation between the Nonsense User and Koyomi Araragi!
It reveals that the story arc covered in the upcoming Ikusamonogatari novel is called "Hitagi Honeymoon."
Director Kazuhiro Yoneda handwrote a letter dedicating Do It Yourself to his late father, with whom he lived in Niigata Prefecture (where the anime takes place) as a child 🥲
[Translation] Interview with Takuya Eguchi
You've heard him as edgy outcasts, romantic leads, and chivalrous knights. Now he's channeling all that energy into undercover daddy Loid Forger!
🕵️♂️ His thoughts on Spy x Family:
According to Bakemonogatari Ch. 153’s cover page, Vol. 16 will be released on February 17…
…along with the Shaft-animated manga trailer that premiered at Oh!great’s art exhibition last August, directed & storyboarded by Akiyuki Shinbo himself!
According to Oh!great, he first met NISIOISIN many years ago at a party hosted by none other than Hirohiko Araki! The fact that those three are friends makes way too much sense 😆
Spy x Family
#12
With the first cour done, I'm reflecting on the runaway success of this adaptation and... I don't know when we'll get another anime with this much UNIVERSAL APPEAL. Honestly.
NISIOISIN's recent interview with Da Vinci Magazine was mostly about Magical Girl Risuka, but 2 questions pertained to the future of the Monogatari series! Here's the first, in which he talks about death.
It’s been disheartening to watch animators, manga artists, and voice actors rally against this system for over a year, only for it to be implemented anyway…
Today might be the beginning of the end not only for the anime industry but Japanese entertainment as a whole, as the new Invoice System for Japanese Consumption Tax comes into effect.
Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail, Edens Zero): "Berserk has kept me young. Despite my age, I'd get giddy whenever I went to buy a new volume on release day. Now I'm dazed and devastated. May Miura-sensei rest in peace."
By the way, the cast & staff are well aware of what they created. Eri Kitamura was so committed to her role that she recorded Karen's lines with a real toothbrush in her mouth.
Source:
Uma Musume S2 will soon dethrone Bakemonogatari as the 2nd best-selling TV anime of all time in terms of DVD/BD units sold.
Current Rankings
1. Evangelion - 203.9k
2. Bakemonogatari - 112.4k
3. Uma Musume S2 - 112.0k
4. Gundam ‘79 - 100.7k
5. Love Live! S2 - 92.9k
If this tweet gets 240 likes, I will translate all 240 fan questions that NISIOISIN answered in this 240Q pamphlet released today. There's fun trivia related to Zaregoto, Monogatari, Katanagatari, Medaka Box, Pretty Boy Detective Club, etc.
Feel free to retweet 👍
Veteran animator Hiroyuki Yamada adds that ¥3,800 per cut was the going rate 40 YEARS AGO, back when a standard bowl of ramen cost ¥300 (it’s 2-3x that now).
Spy x Family Ch. 26
Original JP pun was "chi wa chikara da" (knowledge is power) vs "chiwawa chikara" (chihuahua power). Brilliant example from
@snowjew
of how ADDING context is sometimes the best solution to localizing wordplay!
Bakemonogatari Manga PV (2022): Analysis & Translation Thread
It's rare to get new Monogatari content these days, so join me as I break down this stunning trailer scene by scene and explain what's being said!
Deep down, I think I wanted Chainsaw Man’s animation to be more stylized along the lines of Devilman Crybaby, Kizumonogatari, or even Fire Force.
What we have certainly looks nice, but it’s missing a special spark for me.
[Translation] Interview with Atsumi Tanezaki
If you didn't know her as Juno, Mizore, Dai, Vivy, or Emporio, you certainly know her as Anya now. Meet the incredibly versatile actress behind your favorite pink gremlin!
🥜 Read:
When you play
#FGO
with friends, are you the Jeanne or the Tamamo of the group? Anyways, here's Episode 2 of "Learning with Manga! Fate/Grand Order"!
✨Full episode:
Sonny Boy
#01
It's disquieting. It's bizarre. It's subtle. It's unpredictable. It's the wildcard of the season, and it'll get people talking. Shingo Natsume, you have my attention.
The importance of good manga editors cannot be overstated. For example, Demon Slayer's "Water Breathing" was known as "Urokodaki-style Breathing Technique" before Gotouge-sensei's editor advised them to make it snappier.
4. Yumi Uchiyama, for making Baby Aqua much more than just the second coming of Baby Rudeus.
5. Megumi Han, for being a versatile and talented actress who truly can cry in ten seconds flat.
Spy x Family: Operation Podcast
#08
Host: Takuya Eguchi (Loid)
Guest: Natsumi Fujiwara (Damian)
Eguchi likes the way his pal Kensho Ono (Yuri) yelled in the latest episode, and wants to imitate him.
Junya Enoki (Yuji) and Yuma Uchida (Megumi) became such good friends after co-starring in Jujutsu Kaisen that Junya now helps Yuma with housecleaning in exchange for handmade soba noodles.
Interview with Shingo Adachi, Director of Lycoris Recoil (Part 1): Summary 🧵
By the time Aniplex hired Adachi to direct LycoReco, Asaura had already written a plot outline and finalized the names and profiles of the 5 main characters.
Source:
The entire Monogatari series will soon be available as audiobooks on Audible, narrated by the anime cast! 1 release a month for the next 2 years!
First Season:
[Feb 17] Bake 1 - Hiroshi Kamiya (Koyomi)
[Mar 19] Bake 2 - Emiri Kato (Mayoi)
[Apr 16] Bake 3 - Chiwa Saito (Hitagi)
Spy x Family Ch. 64
It's come to my attention that Tatsuya Endo drew [from right to left] Atsumi Tanezaki (Anya's VA), Takuya Eguchi (Loid's VA), Saori Hayami (Yor's VA), and Shihei Lin (Jump+ editor) as former Imperial Scholars. Nice cameos!
After 5 years and 193 chapters, the Bakemonogatari manga has ended today in Weekly Shonen Magazine!
Thank you to Oh!great and his team for surprising even novel and anime fans with rearranged story arcs, brand-new content, and adaptations of NISIOISIN's short stories!
Happy birthday to Saori Hayami, one of the most versatile voice actresses of our generation! From ice queens to gambling addicts, monotone dolls to childhood friends, Hayamin can play them all! 🎉
[Translation] Interview with Akiyuki Shinbo
If you've watched any Shaft anime from the past 15 years, you know his name. But what exactly does he do as "chief director" of the Monogatari series? And will Off Season ever be animated?
🍵Find out here:
Inio Asano (Goodnight Punpun) on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back one-shot: “Amazing. Truly amazing. I just read something incredible and am at a loss for words.”
Cover reveal for NISIOISIN's latest standalone novel, Delivery Room!
This unconventional thriller stars Miyako Mamamiya, a pregnant woman invited to participate in a battle royale against four other expectant mothers. The prize? A safe childbirth!
Atsumi Tanezaki's "I Wanna Eat Sushi!!" Radio - 20220602
Guests: Tatsuya Endo, Shihei Lin
What happens when Spy x Family's mysterious creator and Jump+'s most successful editor pay Anya's voice actress a visit? Summary thread, start!
Monogatari Series: Official Chronological Order as of Shinomonogatari
Pulled from the new retrospective booklet. Novels with no official English translation yet are starred; Off Season and Monster Season arc names not final. Spoilers ahead.
Reporter Rei Nakafuji found that Chinese animators are being paid, on average, more than 3x what their Japanese counterparts are being paid, so Chinese companies are outsourcing animation jobs to Japan when it used to be the other way around. Grim but unsurprising 😬