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✨Comic creator✨ Pathways, Fates Errant & more ・ Dark Horse Comics, Critical Role・ 2026 Kadokawa WMC & KMA Award finalist ・ Rep'd by Au Literary Management 日本語OK• Japan,愛知県 • Parent, queer (name/they)🌈🜬/BiAce ✨ https://elainetipping.carrd.co/

As the Evils of the Failed Artist is on everybody’s minds, I just wanna stress that failed artists are fail at it because they want to be adored instead of just being weird little freaks who cannot help making the shit they feel uncontrollably compelled to make

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A digital illustration showing a knight in full armour. They are riding on a black steed which is mostly out of frame. The frame in question is green and shows a chain going around as a decorative element. That chain is broken by the knight's raised sword. From the knight's chest bursts a roaring flame in the colours of the trans pride flag.

I'm happy to publicly come forth as the JP-to-EN translator of My Journey to Her by Yūna Hirasawa. It's a great honor to be the first openly transgender & nonbinary native Japanese translator to be credited for the translation of an Eisner Award-winning manga. 😊 Please see my full statement below.

A statement from Mishima Kitan. Due to the word count restriction of the ALT text field, the ALT text is split into two parts. The second part is in the subsequent image in the thread of this post.

Statement Part 1:
"Hi, everyone. This is Mishima Kitan. Today, I'm happy to publicly come forth as the Japanese-to-English translator of My Journey to Her, an autobiographical transgender memoir, by Yūna Hirasawa. My Journey to Her won the Eisner Award for the category of Best Digital Comic in 2025. I'm very glad that this significant book has been released physically as well. 

I've been using English as my second language for over thirty years now. It's a great honor to be the first openly transgender and nonbinary native Japanese translator to be credited for the translation of an Eisner Award-winning manga.

At the time of the digital release of this book in 2024, I had some personal concerns about being credited so I requested to be anonymous in the initially released edition. In March 2026, Haruko Hashimoto (the editor of the digital edition) had reached out to inform me that the book was getting a physical release and to ask if I'd like to be credited as the translator. Upon consideration, I replied, "Yes." I felt ready to be credited as the translator and I also felt that this present moment was a historically important timing to confirm the credit.

Having my own fair share of transphobic experiences and having to entirely cutting ties with my blood family in Japan at age 20 to live and transition on my own, this memoir was one of the most emotionally challenging book to translate. But, as with any work that I do, I gave my best effort."
Kodansha USA@kodansha.us · 19h ago

Don't touch that dial - it's #NewMangaTuesday! Out now are Blue Lock Full Color Selection 1 in print & digital, the final volume of Vinland Saga in digital, the heartwarming one-shot My Journey to Her in print, and more! See the full list of releases here: https://ow.ly/Qcc950ZUtz1

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 13h ago

Many states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social · 19h ago

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Disney has used its resources to gobble up competition instead of investing in skilled storytellers and it shows. They are cheaping out and playing it safe wherever possible. A cheap half-assed reboot will never excite anyone the way your unhinged yaoi melodrama will. Go be weird, hotties.

Keigo Shinzo’s Big Comic Spirit’s manga “Hirayasumi” will end in two chapters. The manga began in the magazine in April 2021, and an anime by production +h will air on NHK beginning January 2027. Viz media has licensed the anime and manga for English release.

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Everyone is saying they want Coven Academy but Black. It Already exists. If you want Witches, Vampires, love triangles, teen melodrama, adult melodrama on the side but make it all more black and queer and by a queer black creator check out The Three Tomes on YouTube. Support indie animation 🔗⬇️

Hey Brazil, those people telling you not to vote in the next round because "what's the point" "it's over" and other defeatist comments, that's a manipulation campaign orchestrated by foreign agents. Be smarter.

There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right