Brian Ruh

Drawings by Tetsuya Nishio of Isaku Okabe as a priest and Mamoru Oshii (dog form) as a shrine maiden.

I missed that last year at the Howling in the Night event they were selling acrylic stands of military consultant Isaku Okabe as a priest and Mamoru Oshii (dog form) as a shrine maiden.

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I think this can be generalized: "If you think AI can make a better product than you can, maybe you're right but that's a personal problem."

Thanks! I will try to be there.

I'm looking forward to this! Do you have any planned signings / talks?

Cover of Trace Elements, coming out of the box

Spine

Cover held up

It's arrived, it's real, it's an actual book! @adapalmer.bsky.social Preorder now, in stores March 24th!

Ulysses 31 has seemed like it would be a great @discotekmedia.bsky.social title, just saying

I love talking about Battle of the Planets because it gets people excited, even though it wasn't part of my own childhood.

For me, it was Ulysses 31, Goldorak (UFO Robot Grendizer), Captain Future, Captain Palnet, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ...

“AI is here to stay” has become “common sense”, a phrase I’ve ranted about before.

Any time someone says something is “common sense” it means “I haven’t thought too much about this, and you shouldn’t either”.

Same goes for AI.

People keep saying it and I keep thinking it's omnipresent marketing 'cuz even if we take out discussions of morality and utility for a lot of it (which, imo, is steelmanning the position), the core infrastructure of the data-center-requiring genalgo functions seems pretty unsustainable.

AI absolutely might put us out of work, but not because it can replicate the quality of what humans currently do. Like any disruptive capitalist “innovation,” it’s a simulacrum that’s far cheaper and just barely convincing enough. Let’s not mistake it for being an actual substitute.

I heard the good old “AI is here to stay” line on NPR this morning.

That always strikes me as so odd. I work in IT, and I don’t (knowingly) use AI. And the last time I used it in a personal capacity, all it could do was create weird smeary images.

For most cases, there’s just no need for it.

Cover illustration for TKC magazine, March 2026 issue.
TKC全国会の会報誌『TKC』2026年3月号の表紙イラストレーションを担当しました。
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First week in the BBC graphics department and already thriving

Sometimes in the dark of the night, the following words will erupt unbidden from the depths of my soul:

“A baloo is a bear. A yonker is a young man. Wuzzle means to mix.”

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Oh certainly. They’re very closely linked. I tend not to hear about 1932 as much, though.

I thought it was a bit refreshing - not every attempted coup needs to be a Feb 26 reference.

TIL, the Individual Eleven from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex were an allusion to actual historical figures. Cc: @aelkus.bsky.social @brianruh.bsky.social

At least they didn't pay for it, I guess.

"Instead it was the oven that got the knob."

And by “not enough pushback,” we mean that Nobuhiro Watsuki has been selected by Shueisha to be a judge for the 2026 Tezuka Awards!

fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face Alt: fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face

Eiichiro Oda of One Piece fame is friends with both Watsuki and Shimabukuro too.

Only two nickels, but weird that it happened twice, etc.

There was not nearly enough pushback against the creators of Rurouni Kenshin, Toriko, etc. which is one reason why companies think they can try to “rehabilitate” creators like this.

My latest artwork - two astronauts exploring the surface of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus. Plumes from the subsurface ocean are lit up by the dim sunlight.

Digital painting, @blender.org and Photoshop, 2026.

Any cool ideas for what the mission should be called?

If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.

I’ll need to visit if there’s a “Blitzkrieg Hop”

Photo of the Peloponnese Text: Peloponnese Trails LAUNCHING APRIL 2026 1,060 MILES OF TRAILS DISCOVER ANCIENT PATHS AND MODERN ADVENTURE

One of these days

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The fog rolls in, but please oh god not like this

Good time for a reminder

I know it’s a joke line for Daniel Radcliffe’s character in “Reggie Dinkins”, but the “University of Maryland center for Documentary, Anime, and Pornography” would be pretty awesome, actually.