Cal C

claimed that the victim of noted coprophillic pedohile Yamamoto is lying. scum behavior

feeling more privileged than ever to have translated Eniale and Dewiela (Shirahama's very gay earlier work))

imagine if big-name male mangaka with a lot to lose would ever speak up and stand up to their monstrous overlords. imagine!
(on that note: fuck the Ippo author)

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

I didn't even see this prompt lol. just funny timing

my own white grandpa was a card-carrying Jewish commie who ran with the Rosenbergs before they got the chair and who volunteered to go to Spain and beat up Fascist Franco, just to make Marx's ghost proud

bsky.app/profile/sarc...

a restaurant table with a nagashi-somen mechanism, where noodles swirl around in a moat of water

A statue of Issie the lake monster, in a parking lot

her Japanese grandpa is an 80-something chain-smoking gravel-voiced liquor store owner in Kagoshima who took us to nagashi-somen and to Lake Ikeda, where Issie, cousin to Nessie, lives

The cover of a book titled Karate's History and Traditions By Bruce A. Haines With a photo of two white dudes in karate gi pretending to strike each other

The back cover, with a description of the contents and a brief author bio describing him as one of the first Caucasian Americans to study karate in the US in the 50s.

my gf's white grandpa, Bruce, was an OG proto-weeb who would've made Lafcadio Hearn proud

yeahhh I'm personally not ready to give any pro-slop entity the benefit of the doubt, especially when their noted slop affinity is baked into their mission statement and every slide deck prior to today!

also curious to know how any of this affects 7S's union 👀

I still don't trust em 🤷‍♂️
clearly they wouldn't even say this much if not for the immediate backlash

(note: this is Media Do's statement, not 7S's. Seen a number of people not getting that, prolly b/c of that wonky "we at The Company" phrasing- presumably "弊社")

bsky.app/profile/seve...

Media-Do recently published the Investor documents about the Seven Seas Acquisition which includes a lot of information that I've seen that hasn't been reported on yet

So here's a thread breaking down what I found & what it could mean for the future of Seven Seas Entertainment

(Long Read Warning)

a pokemon leaf green screenshot of me encountering Tauros in the safari zone

me catching that tauros successfully

avenging 10-year old me, who was stuck on 149/150 in gen1 for so long because of this fucker

(4% appearance, 45% chance to flee on turn 1; got this one in 1 bait + 2 balls)

No clue lol but I had to roll my eyes when (in this commentary) they start glazing econ/law/govt/politics majors as being noble, principled individuals who want to make society better. the kool-aid has been DRUNK

With all the recent stuff going on, I do want to affirm here that all of the localization for @mangamavericks.bsky.social titles are done 100% by humans.

We have no interest in using AI for any part of the localization/production process.

a post from 7S official bluesky account at 10:59 am on 3/2/2026, reading: "Many have asked about AI and translation following the acquisition announcement. Seven Seas remains committed to human translators and the high editorial standards our readers & creators expect. Nothing about the acquisition changes how we translate our books. More info shortly."

encouraging statement (and satisfying distrust in the replies), but don't give them another dime until the dust has settled, and keep sending feedback.

bumbling shitheel Media Do won't sheepishly give up on its grand slop fantasy just b/c 7S employees offer pushback in the first 24 hours

a interstitial page in World Trigger v29, introducing the series' lineup of editors over the past decade+. All are men.

meanwhile, I winced a little as I TL'd this end material in WT v29, featuring commentary from the series' all-male panel of six editors, past and present.
you think that doesn't affect the work? the culture? the coddling of monsters?

Jump's first-ever female editor (Fujita) got the gig in ~2022~

Shueisha, actually 😅
but that's okay- best not to trust any of them

new campaign: bring actual cancel culture to Japan...perhaps 20~odd years after the term was coined in the US (and then accomplished nothing at all wrt bringing down sex criminals in positions of power)

not sure, but Shogakukan and their puppy mills =/= Jump
(I mention the SJ boys' club because of Watsuki and his neverending support, Toriko guy, etc.)

"if you squint, this afterword bit seems to suggest...early-onset osteoporosis ??
thank fuck! now I'm 99% sure this author is a woman!"

not me literally emailing these people now and then to point out that when they don't raise our rates annually to at least *match* inflation, that's a pay CUT

sucks to have to side-eye every male writer/artist duo of something I work on (solo acts are too busy for extracurriculars, these days?) knowing there's a non-zero chance that a chunk of income could go poof tomorrow if one of them is revealed to have been bloodletting toddlers in his dungeon

Shogaku(chi)kan's twofer special in their rehab program for heinous sex criminals sure doesn't make me regret shifting away from the bad-vibes SJ boys' club the past few years

doing a fist pump when I realize that the latest gay mermaid joint I'm TLing is helmed by some li'l bespectacled lady

"Shogakukan editorial dual wielding pedophiles"

stunting like Musashi Miyamoto, with that Ni-Pedo Ichiryu

vote w/your $$$ and make your displeasure known. be polite (since the lowly CS person didn't choose this), but clear (no purchases of anything AI has touched, need strong promises and follow-through).
Give them a tsunami of outrage from their customer base

sevenseasentertainment.com/about/contac...

the 6 months bit is:
-bad game of telephone from West to East?
-a bauble of misinfo by and for C-suiters high on their own supply, who think there're customers flush with cash who'll buy X,000 volumes o' slop annually?
-horseshit propaganda to extract public buy-in?

takes me 2-3 days to TL a tanko

must be noted:
on the (very few) titles I did with 7S, their initial offer was the lower end of 700-1000 (already insulting, compared to what Viz/Yen/SE/DH offer)

so to "save" that amount, they're 100% implying that the human translator goes into the wood chipper.
evil, bottomfeeding shit

my heart breaks for any fellow freelancers currently relying on 7S, and for any in-house principled creatives

but we have to hope for this publisher's complete (self-inflicted) destruction via loss of sales. nothing less will serve as an essential stove-touching moment for the vile corpos in Japan

it's so bad I was honestly pleasantly surprised at the meaningful backlash and consequences re: Shogakukan's long-lasting support of their latest feces rapist guy.
the bar's in hell! 🤪

the writing was on the wall from day 1 with Manga Plus (y'know, when they snatched up our existing work for worldwide distro without so much as a how-dee-do), and I resent every chops-licking promoter and credulous consumer who propped it up.
inherent undervaluing of art led us into this chasm.

AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH

yeah, inane propaganda.
a full-throttle human manga translator can do a book in ~days~. that's a necessity, to make a career of it.
what adds up to "months" is TL + editing + lettering + internal miscellany + printing + distribution, etc.

no AI could shave even minutes off *my* process

the Gundam meme of a pilot saying "I am a genius!" and then, a second later, "Oh no!"

>me triumphing over Kaiser Permanente's obnoxious reluctance to give me a colonoscopy despite microplastic butt cancer killing my demographic in horrific numbers, now at age 36, after three years of dogged requests

>2.5 days no food

man can ill survive on lime jello and chicky broth alone 🥲