Edward "Edo" Hong

A sight-gag from the Enlglish release of Daemons of the Shadow Realm Vol 9 ny Hiromu Arakawa. A poster advertising a job at "MoooBurger." The poster displays two part-time jobs, one working a 10:00 to 21:00 timeslot at 1,013 yen per hour, the other working a 22:00 to 5:00 timesolt at 1,267 yen per hour. Beneath the listings, we see two employees, both of whom appear dead-tired and delirious, describing the restaurant as "A Laid Back Workplace! No explotation! We swear!"

I love Arakawa's work man

Silently cheering when annoying-to-retouch buildings get destroyed in a manga I’m working on.

“I’m descended from wolves and also love manga”

Who is the badass otaku Roei Tadera? Find out in the free preview of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, vol. 9 ➡️ sqex.link/o8rm

Daemons of the Shadow Realm, vol. 9 is on sale now! 🍟

On the verge of being overpowered by Daemon Wielders from Nishino Village, Hana is saved by a masked man claiming to be Roei Tadera! 🤓

Surprise! I'm the translator on this~! Maybe it's silly to wax poetic on a title about gyarus being in lesbians with each other, but it's manga like this that really makes me so grateful to be allowed to do this job full-time. It's just so good! Me and the team will do our best!

Happy Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc digital release eve. I spoke with composer Kensuke Ushio about how he made me cry with his score, summer's end.

One thing a lot of "Why was this anime so heavily edited during localization?" conversations miss is that many of these series lived and died based on the success of their surrounding advertisements and merchandising...which were provided by companies that considered "Made in Japan" a dirty phrase.

Soul Eater: Soul Art Encore! is $25.98 [$39.99 MSRP] on Amazon

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I got the new Soul Eater art book while it was on sale. This shit's so cool, man. I love real art.

To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?

If this change will affect you directly as viewer that uses the free, ad-supported tier, please email me at Lynzee@AnimeNewsNetwork.com and share what this means for your viewing habits and interaction with anime fandom.

Oh no, my last pair of wired earbuds is only working when twisted at a certain angle now…

Spotify Wrapped says my “listening age” is 19.

I have mixed feelings about this.

It's probably not well-known, but in some (not so rare) cases a SINGLE PAGE of manga can take 3-4 hours to letter.

Get 2-3 pages like this and your day is fucked. Meanwhile, you might only have 7 days to finish the volume.

The amount of work going into some books is absolutely mind-boggling.

Web novels, a growing source of anime stories, see rise in AI works Plus: Mamoru Hosoda film underperforms in box office debut; Kadokawa buys Singapore anime festival organizer; Light anime boost small manga publishers; and more

Japan's user-generated web novel platforms have become a growing source of original stories to be adapted into manga, anime, and film, but their operators are contending with a rise in submitted works that are generated by AI.

Read this headline and more in this week's business briefing.

Saturday AM recommends DRAGON & CHAMELEON as a great manga to read for fans of the manga making process.

ARTISTS -- YOU NEED TO READ THIS MANGA Part 1

DRAGON & CHAMELEON by Ryo Ishiyama is a BATTLE MANGA -- but done with competing mangaka and their works, NOT from super powers.

One of Saturday AM's FAVE #MANGA - we highly recommend DRAGON & CHAMELEON - in stores NOW

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Fubuki and Mio's adventures continue! Read the free preview of Holoearth Chronicles Side:E Yamato Phantasia, vol. 2 now! sqex.link/497b

Holoearth Chronicles Side:E Yamato Phantasia, vol. 2 is on sale NOW!

While looking for missing children, Fubuki and Mio find themselves engaged in a fierce battle against an oni named Nakiri Ayame! 👹👘

Secrets and side quests kick off December's #RELEASERADAR! Here's what's hitting shelves tomorrow!

🎹 A Man And His Cat, vol. 14
👹 Holoearth Chronicles Side:E Yamato Phantasia, vol. 2

Congrats! Sounds exciting!

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.

tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.

🧵⬇️

AI dubs aren't just an attempt to replace voice actors. Engineering, mixing, writing, directing, and QC are also cut, narrowed down to a single prompter.

When I write dub scripts, it is an exercise in musicality, translation, and personal life experience. A prompter understands none of that.

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

i know chapter 15 of Bug Ego came out a bit ago but i'm finally around to letting everyone know that YES i did have to completely redraw this computer screen and do all of the text, adjust the original emojis, and do all the effects myself! it took hours!!! happy with how it turned out but damn!

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The @square-enix-games.com shop is having an epic Black Friday sale, including 20% off some of our favorite video game tie-in manga, novels, & art books! Grab what you’ve been eyeing, while supplies last! 👀

Kisshot and Deathtopia, 物語シリーズ fanart

Dinner time? #物語シリーズ

Happy #Thanksgiving  from the Square Enix Manga & Books crew!! Who are you sharing a delicious meal with today? 🍗

(via Beauty and the Feast)

Lots of newness dropped this past month! What was your fave November pickup? 🍁🍂

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!