Brendo

I promised some samples of lettering from the manga
Hope You're Happy, Lemon by Mizuki Kishikawa, so here we go. It's now on sale!

Kishikawa's style is really fun, and super busy at times, and I had a lot of fun trying to match it.

Like, I didn't think Funimation's dub was terrible or anything, but to me the whole film felt different because of it. It didn't feel like a totally suitable substitute for someone who may not be able to watch it in Japanese with subtitles. Also hated how they pronounced Gojira, haha.
Common NYAV w

Wow, surprised there's a new dub.
Honestly I wasn't really a fan of Funimation's dub. It came across way too detached from the physical performances and the script and types of voices they were doing didn't come across very natural. NYAV's dub seems much more promising in all aspects.

Chloe Zhao, please bring me and @lettererbrendo.bsky.social on as consultants when you inevitably realize that Billy Bat is the best thing in the Kodansha catalog

I don't think Asmongold's living conditions would really become any worse on the streets tbh

Please don't post this kind of language. I just imagined in my brain that several of those words are different words and it's actually very fucked up

Like, I think most viewers would be okay with subtitles not always being super crisp for the sake of the convenience of watching on something other than a PC. Or at least they could provide text-based subs as an alternative. This just doesn't seem like the best thing for viewers

Could they not get image-based subtitles to work on lower-end devices instead of re-encoding? I can understand ASS not working on like an iPhone or a smart TV but something similar to PGS or VOB maybe? At the very least they could get sign subs at the top of the frame if it must be text-based.

I have added fifty new movies to the Plex server; every Dexter series has also been added--I will continue to procrastinate watching it for years to come. I've finished replaying Peace Walker and am now replaying MGSV. I'm watching Twin Peaks again.

This has been an Autism Announcement. Thank you!

Our next piece of lettering comes from @meerkatotter.bsky.social!

Not only does Madeleine flawlessly recreate the translated English text into 3D blocks, but they also have the text interacting with Mifuyu as well!

#LettererAppreciationMonth #LettererAppreciationDay

he still has a job. how many people have been fired for saying much milder things about a right-wing figure?

People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. It looks like a coordinated effort | CNN Business Dozens of social media posts and messages about the murder of Charlie Kirk, including some that celebrated his death, are being spotlighted by conservative activists, Republican elected officials and ...

If you are, random example here, a publisher who had a quick reaction to some online posts and fired one of your employees for it, or canceled their book, or whatever, again, random example, you probably should have been aware this was part of a bad faith concerted effort www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/b...

DC still has books by Gerard Jones or Justiniano on DCU Infinite. Guys who were arrested, pleaded guilty and got convicted for child pornography!
But Gretchen Felker-Martin's first Red Hood issue gets recalled, and the rest of the run pulped, because she
*checks notes*
wasn't sad that Kirk got shot?

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights"

- Charlie Kirk, 1993 - 2025

a man is sticking his tongue out while standing next to a car . ALT: a man is sticking his tongue out while standing next to a car .

So I know celebrating murder is in poor taste, but….

This isn't to say shooting a dude in the neck is a good thing, but the amount of people now turning around like "Nooo that is SO uncalled for and we should show some empathy!" like the dude wasn't celebrating and trying to justify the murder of the marginalized regularly is dumb as shit.

Not to get erm political but it is incredible how many people will immediately turn around from "the only good fascist is a dead one" the moment it really happens. Have some fucking conviction. Racist mass shooters cite a guy as an inspiration and now I'm supposed to feel sorry for him? Shut up.

All that's doing is wasting the precious time you could have known them more, could have showed that you actually cared as much as you felt. Matt was a fantastic person. Don't take fantastic people you know for granted. You don't know when it will be too late.

and then try and chat with him again. Sorry for rambling about this. If you ever want to talk to someone, if you care about someone, just do it. Don't hold yourself back because you feel like you don't deserve to talk to your friend, or because you worry you're going to take away from their time.

I wish I'd gotten over those feelings, could more easily accept that when he said there were no hard feelings then that means I shouldn't hold myself to my mistakes so much. When he posted about his hospitalization, he seemed certain things would pass. I told myself I'll let him recover first

It's been two or three years since I last talked to him, because I felt bad about how I fumbled a project on him, and he always seemed so busy. He didn't hold anything against me, he said he'd like to work with me again. I kept thinking "I'll message him again soon" and forgot how long it'd been.

I think it's fair to say most people who got into the English manga industry in the last decade can say Matt was a part of their journey, that they wouldn't be quite where they are now without his influence, even if they only encountered him briefly.

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone Matt didn't impact, even if indirectly. Everyone knew Matt, and if you didn't you knew at least ten people that did, and he was a big part of many people getting where they are now.

Matt and me in front of the New York Public Library.

Matt was an incredible force and a wonderful friend. Love him so much. Incredibly grateful I was able to work with him and be his friend.

I think very few people had such a love for manga, such a passion to see things be more accessible--even if they hadn't found an audience yet--that Matt had. To potentially allow more people feel the excitement he felt, even if just a few, despite how difficult it could be.

Matt was a real one, legendary dude. I wish I'd spoken to him more, done more with him, let him know how much I respected him and everything he'd done--I don't think I ever got it across to him like I wish I had.

Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics, organized by Matthew Haasch With your support, I can focus on healing from lymphoma while continu… Matthew Haasch needs your support for Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics

Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Absolutely surreal to see our names officially listed with an ISBN.

Also begging anime fans to stop calling Japanese voices "sub voices"