Dobu

@dobu.bsky.social

Manga letterer and translator, and cringe connoisseur. Personal (non-industry-related) account

After being able to get pretty far in three houses, i wondered if the new one will finally be the title that gets me into fire emblem... then I saw the prices 😭

In response to the recent allegations, I'd like to assure you all that I DO NOT use AI for research in my work. Chadley does still talk to me the entire time while I'm researching, but I can confidently say that I retain zero information from him and just sort of zone him out after a while.

Every few years a comic company repeats the mistake of holding a contest for artists to "win" a gig, in this case it's Ghostmachine's cover contest. "Submit 3-6 samples of cover art featuring Ghost Machine Characters. . ." Some people see opportunity. Experienced pros see a scam. 1/8

I like how the whole "Mystique abandons Kurt" plot could have been done lovingly like Moses among the reeds but no, she just looks vaguely disgusted and hurls him down a waterfall.

Two images of Mystique and Nightcrawler from X-men '97 where Mystique looks vaguely disgusted with her new baby

Vic Mignogna's been relegated to crying to a half-empty room about how unfair the world is once a year for like 8 years now. Even if he had ever been in the right, at what point is this not just kinda pathetic? Who wants to watch a grown man throw a tantrum without thinking "this bitch is washed"

If anyone reading this is at anime matsuri this weekend (lol) PLEASE record the hentai panel for me I NEED to see what it is like

I wonder if the Hunter × Hunter boat arc got an anime adaptation if it would even be watchable considering how much of this part is just dialogue (barely any illustrations even) punctuated by one very short crazy moment for every three hours' worth of text.

I tried to explain Persona 2 Innocent Sin's battle system to my partner and we both felt insane by the time I got around to the "but it's a really easy game so it's not all that important to know it super well" bit

I am begging manga publishers to stop exporting digital versions of their chapters/books in CMYK. It's literally one export option and you can have beautiful rich RGB black for digital readers that looks good on screens. PLEASE please please stop exporting with CMYK black