Tiina of Kana and ACA

🧐 We might be looking for another editor or two to add to our editors’ pool sooner than expected. If you’re interested and a mutual, shoot me a message on here or Discord.

It's buy one get one 40% off for ALL our graphic novels from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social today! I'm going to list some of my favorite gift pick combos from this season—we make some great books! www.abramsbooks.com/imprints/abr...

Do you need a distraction from the doom scroll? Kana Manga just launched a discord server where we post sneak peeks and official announcements: discord.gg/WSFNhTEBJ

people measurably don’t want to pay for AI-generated content. you can’t grow a business off of a product no one will pay for.
you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.

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.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

An infographic created by @BRIANNAVIEIRA & @THEQTHERAPIST for #ACEAWARENESSWEEK in asexual flag colors black, white, gray, and purple Understanding Asexuality: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ASEXUAL? (ALSO KNOWN AS "ACE" OR "ACES") There are many different types of attraction including romantic, aesthetic and sexual. Asexuality refers to someone who experiences very little or no sexual attraction to people of any gender. ACE INDIVIDUALS CAN STILL FEEL... ROMANTIC ATTRACTION Desire for a typically romantic relationship with another person EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION Wanting an emotional connection with another person AESTHETIC ATTRACTION Attraction to someone based on their general appearance SENSUAL ATTRACTION Wanting to touch, hold, or cuddle someone PHYSICAL ATTRACTION Where a person finds another person's physique pleasing PLATONIC ATTRACTION Wanting to be friends with another person

An infographic created by @BRIANNAVIEIRA & @THEQTHERAPIST for #ACEAWARENESSWEEK in asexual flag colors black, white, gray, and purple Understanding Asexuality: ASEXUALITY, LIKE ANY IDENTITY, IS COMPLEX. THERE ARE NUMEROUS ASEXUAL IDENTITIES WITHIN ASEXUALITY INCLUDING: ASEXUAL SPECTRUM ASEXUAL No sexual attraction is experienced at all. Used as an umbrella term and used as a separate identity DEMISEXUAL May experience sexual attraction, but only once a deep, emotional bond occurs GREY SEXUAL Feels weak sexual attraction and/or attraction so rarely there's no desire to act on it

An infographic created by @BRIANNAVIEIRA & @THEQTHERAPIST for #ACEAWARENESSWEEK in asexual flag colors black, white, gray, and purple Understanding Asexuality: WAYS TO BE AN ALLY TO ASEXUAL FOLKS EDUCATE YOURSELF ON ACE IDENTITIES IF SOMEONE COMES OUT TO YOU AS ACE, BELIEVE THEM PROVIDE SUPPORT + VALIDATION CELEBRATE +AFFIRM THEIR IDENTITY RESPECT THEIR RELATIONSHIPS CALL OUT ACE-ERASURE + ACEPHOBIA WHERE YOU SEE IT EDUCATE OTHERS DON'T ASK INTRUSIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT SOMEONE'S SEX LIFE DON'T ASSUME EVERYONE NEEDS SEX OR ROMANCE TO BE HAPPY TOGETHER WE CAN EVOLVE THE MEANING OF RELATIONSHIPS + HELP TO REDUCE THE STIGMA SURROUNDING ASEXUALITY.

An infographic created by @BRIANNAVIEIRA & @THEQTHERAPIST for #ACEAWARENESSWEEK in asexual flag colors black, white, gray, and purple Understanding Asexuality: ASEXUALITY SITS AT THE INTERSECTION OF MANY OTHER LGBTQIA IDENTITIES WHICH MEANS SOMEONE WHO IS ASEXUAL CAN ALSO BE... HETEROROMANTIC Romantic attraction to people of another gender. PANROMANTIC Romantic attraction towards people of all genders/regardless of gender. BIROMANTIC Romantic attraction towards men + women. HOMOROMANTIC Romantic attraction towards people of the same gender. AROMANTIC One who does not experience romantic attraction to people of any gender. PLUS MANY MORE! (SEARCH: "TYPES OF ROMANTIC ORIENTATION")

It’s Asexual Awareness Week

🖤 Oct 19 - 25, 2025
🩶 Celebrate identities
🤍 Build community
💜 Advocate for acceptance

I’m a proud 🖤A🩶C🤍E💜 with some info to share. Take a look ⤵️ and THANK YOU for your support!

AceWeek.org #Asexual #AsexualAwareness #AceAwarenessWeek

Thank you Ben! The team is very proud of how nicely the whole 24 Frames editions came together

Took me a while to be ready to write this, but here's my post about Matt. I still can't fully believe he's gone.

Manga friends: I'm going to try to make some kind of memorial for Matt Haasch. If you have stories, photos, or any words of appreciation you want to share, please let me know. DMs are open.

If there's anyone doing something similar already please also let me know and we can pool our efforts.

Sometimes the only way I can keep getting up everyday, what with the country and world being how it is right now, is because all I can do is put nice things into the world. And if that's just well localized manga that people enjoy...well, then I can get up tomorrow too.

Matt has setup a GoFundMe to help with rent and debt while he heals so please consider making a donation to help him out: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

If you cannot donate, please share & letting folks know!

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

Thanks for the shout out Tiina 🥰

Here are some of my favorite sfx instances from Cat’s Eye Vol 1!!

Did you know it's #lettererappreciationday?! The English omnibus editions of City Hunter and Cat's Eye have brand new lettering from the fabulous Kai Kyou and Barri Shrager @omgitsbarri.bsky.social respectively. Please appreciate what amazing work they've put into these new editions!

Happy #Letterer Appreciation Day! If you want to check out fantastic letterers here on bluesky, here's a starter pack!

Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time.

go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ

💜ASEXUAL IS QUEER💜

Ace authors. Ace women. Ace characters. Ace horror.

We're often not considered queer enough to be labeled LGBTQ+. We're often passed up when people are considering LGBTQ+ reads.

We have voices and we'd like to be heard.

Consider these upcoming ace horror offerings this fall.

The most sobering yet important panel I attended all weekend of Anime NYC was one on censorship, both "hard censorship" and "soft censorship," with discussions of our current political climate along with why US publishers might decide the things that they do.
🧵 incoming

Congrats to all the American Manga Award winners!

BILLY BAT NOW 😏

Exclusive: Kana to release Naoki Urasawa & Takashi Nagasaki’s BILLY BAT in English Kana will release Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s acclaimed thriller "Billy Bat" in English, begining June 2026.

Kana will release Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s acclaimed thriller "Billy Bat" in English, begining June 2026.

Lettering pays poorly. I work a full-time office job to support my passion of lettering manga. I don't dislike AI localization because I see it as a threat to my livelihood, I dislike it because it is profane. An essential aspect of the job is respecting the work of the artist and writer.

Some of my best friends to this day are from convention clamp meet ups.

For example: If an industry-heavy anime con wants to talk about, say, fansubs, and scanlations, they should get an actual historian of the medium to discuss it so they can frame it properly.

Or better yet, shelve that idea and get actual translators to talk theory and industry, which is more useful

28. Industry-centric events shouldn't be prioritizing upbeat conversations about piracy and illicit distribution over expert-led panels.

Yeah, sure, why not?

0. Generative AI is, was, and always will be incurious, wildly inaccurate slop built on the stolen work of actual humans. There's no ethical way to use it, like, at all.

YOU WILL BECOME MY WIFE (MANGA) (For Mature readers, Steamship imprint)

In this steamy romance manga, one woman is overwhelmed by the pleasure and desire she receives from her handsome fiancé!

Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section:
sevenseasentertainment.com/books/you-wi...

Doujinshi Scanlation 101 Yaoi Edition (18+) Aug 23, 2025 8:30 - 9:15 PM Room 1A03 Description Ever wonder how your favorite doujinshi go through the process of being translated for your reading pleasure? Well then come on down and learn about the techniques of scanlation! From scanning to cleaning to typsetting we'll explore it all and play some games along the way, with doujinshi from fandoms such as Jujutsu Kaisen, SK8 the Infinity, My Hero Academia and more!

hey @animenyc.bsky.social — this panel is so disrespectful to all of the manga localization professionals going to the con. can you please clarify the wording to let all of us know you’re not actively endorsing unauthorized distribution?

I finally mounted my pinboard and pin collection, but I'm afraid it's too high over my window 🤔