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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Waiting for the heather faucett book signing at third place books

Two heather facett book: Emily Wilde encolopedia of fairies and map of the other lands

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Manga Mavericks @mangamavericks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a quick look at one of the beautiful and recently restored color pages from The Sword of Paros by Kaoru Kurimoto and Yumiko Igarashi! The English release will be the first time this page has been printed in color since 1986! Pre-order your copy today: buff.ly/x1ZeN6p

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hate being sick. How did I get sick when I didn’t even leave the house in the last two weeks

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斉木久美子 @psy93.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

かげきしょうじょ‼︎17巻書影出ました☺️10月5日発売。宜しくお願い致します www.hakusensha.co.jp/comicslist/8...

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ugh. Got the sequel to a sci-fi monster guy book which I enjoyed the first volume of, but they've gone full blown porn now for the sequel and I am so bored. I wanna go back to the plot please.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The ML in Rainy Day Serenade is just so perfectly right out of a historical romance novel. I love him to bits and wanna shank anyone who threatens him. Please look forward to him lol.

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Rosa Diaz and Arlo: 'Kill Everyone'

ALT: Rosa Diaz and Arlo: 'Kill Everyone'

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heikala kickstarts always make me feel like I made out like a bandit. This last one just raised the bar even more.

A box featuring a sketch pad, art shikishi folded out, an art print, a sticker sheet, a metal book mark, and the art of heikala realms of imagination art book

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Yen Press @yenpress.com · 27/08/2026

Cover Debut! 📗 A Witch’s Life in Mongol, Vol. 4 🔗 buff.ly/1WYPhe8 Fatima is shaken by the sudden death of her archnemesis, Tolui, the hero of the conquest of Jin. House Tolui’s might had been a heavy weight disturbing the balance of power in the Empire—now the scales have flipped on their head.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I adored Tim curry and am very upset today

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sad to hear that do Dolly left us. I’ll prob be watching 9 to 5 which is quite a delight to watch, and just sing Jolene to myself for the rest of the month.

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Dollyparton Laughing

Alt: Dolly Parton Laughing with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the move 9 to 5

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I own it all digitally and I WILL be double dipping for physicals of matcha made in heaven. I’ve wanted this for years

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Coop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Have you been working in the publishing side of localization (translation, editing, lettering) and want to share (publicly or anonymously) your concerns heard? I'm working on a story about just that. My dms are open and I'm also over on signal (riderstrike.152).

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Manga Mavericks @mangamavericks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

THE SWORD OF PAROS RELEASE UPDATE! We need YOUR help! If you provide us with a lead that directly results in the procurement of one of these issues of Monthly Asuka by 9/15/26, you will receive a name credit in our English release of The Sword of Paros and a complimentary copy of the book!

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are getting more zaddy manga and I am here for it. And yes they both have cats

The Gentleman, the Cat, & the Tea Room cover featuring a man at a tea counter with a cat

Good morning Leon cover featuring a man in a chair with a cat

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 21/08/2026

Announcements continued • Why we Fall in Love by ma2 • Pumpkin Night by Masaya Hokazono #AnimeNYC

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 21/08/2026

License announcements for 2027 • Happy at Home By Chiaki Ida • Children of the Afterlife by Yamakujira • Soon the Fog Clears by Qtonagi • Good Morning Leon by Kai Kitagou #AnimeNYC

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Heck yeah! Got in my star clock liddle manga from glacier bay

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mangaawardsusa.bsky.social @mangaawardsusa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🏆 WINNER FOR BEST LETTERING 🏆 MADELEINE JOSE MAID TO SKATE SUZUSHIRO VIZ EDITOR: JACK CARILLO CONCORDIA

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Working on more The Gentleman, the Cat, & the Tea Room by Molicoross, and as a big tea drinker, I'm loving that I'm getting a list of even more tea (and food pairings) to add to my shopping list with every volume. Now I gotta buy some Nilgiri tea as well as some others.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I backed a kickstarter for some personal assistant calendar thing some time ago and it finally came in. Time for me to try and get my inku working, and then see if I can customize my avatar.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is like the third weeb car I’ve seen in Seattle. First was an all pink one with the sister from demon hunters, and then an Asuka from Eva.

Some street racer with a misa misa from death note anime girl skin

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Aww heck yeah, the new Ana and Din Mystery just popped up in my libby. Gimme gimme gimme.

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Anna Podedworna @akreon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So excited to share this illustration I had the pleasure of creating for Bloomberg Businessweek for the article “The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business” by Hannah Miller and Madison Muller. Such a fun one to work on! Art direction by Chandra Illick.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This week, trumpet sound effects in manga are my nemesis.

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Kenny Meyers @kennym.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Webtoons going all in on AI.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A win co opened up near me. I found a whole bunch of blue raspberry shark gummies I haven't been able to find in candy stores around here for years, so now I have a big ole bag of shark gummies.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Now that champignon witch has been licensed, time to change up my most wanted in English title or titles. I think I’m gonna champion Izumi Kaneyoshi lol. I REALLY want cold game in English, and Joou no Hana was lovely too. Sure we got doubt!! Year ago but I want her historical girls with swords

Cold game vol 8 manga cover with a guy in armor

Joou no Hana cover with a girl in Korean style garb with a sword

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 06/08/2026

Credit to /Jaro0__ for finding this, (and /Mogeko_bunn_sin for the heads up) There's other titles where a MTL Company was credited as the translator for a specific title despite telling sites like ANN "AI translation was not used for this project." So yea....

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So the manga million app by a major Japanese publisher is full of AI translated slop? I’m not surprised but that’s not how I want to read manga so it’s just another thing I’ll never look at.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Awesome deep dive of what we’re looking for w/ the asuka magazine search for color sword of Paros pages. Didn’t know some of these existed til I was working on those first two grayscaled pages of ch2 and going “this HAD to be colored” & then found an old auction listing of ripped out magazine pages

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Got my sword lesbian (aka Chappell roan) shirt in. Maybe there is a benefit to my partner working for epic games

Shirt with 80s inspired art of Chappell roan in her knight outfit from her vma performance. She has a big ass sword

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

No one told me William & Sonoma do Halloween. *cries as she forks out for and expensive cake pan she’ll never wanna dirty*

Nightmare before Christmas selection of dishes

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VLord Reads Too Much Manga @vlordgtz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

An update on this: We’ve now purchased April 1986, October 1986 (credit to @andysislands.bsky.social for the find), and December 1986. Hopefully it doesn’t take long to find the remaining 6 issues!

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

These are the exact issues of Monthly Asuka @mangamavericks.bsky.social is looking for for Sword of Paros. If you have a lead let them know!

We're Looking for Monthly Asuka Issues

What we have:
March 1986
May 1986
July 1986

What we need:
April 1986
June 1985
August to December 1986
January to February 1987

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Strict Algorithm LLC @wsstalkback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🚨 Get hyped! @omoi.com just announced their license of Shinji Wada Sukeban Deka!! It’ll be out this fall! 🍃

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Soooo freaking happy about the Sukeban Deka license. We're seeing so many great vintage shojo licenses lately. This video is a great breakdown of the series.

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Japanese schoolgirls with a deadly yo-yo | SUKEBAN DEKA 1 & 2

YouTube video by TOKYO TOY BANZAI

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@mangamavericks.bsky.social literally asked at their panel that if anyone happens to have issues of Monthly Asuka from 1986 & 1987 to let them know, as they'd like to get as many color pages for Sword of Paros as possible.

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Manga Mavericks @mangamavericks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Thanks to the amazing response for our upcoming release of The Sword of Paros, all pre-orders of the print edition made through the Manga Mavericks Store will now include an exclusive shikishi! Supply will be limited - pre-order ASAP to ensure you get yours! buff.ly/tqLIVgY

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Checking out the first chapter of the detective manga Don't Call it Mystery. After hearing a police officer complain about how his daughter thinks he's smelly, our MC displays his eccentric deductive bona fides by springboarding into a multi-page tangent on evolutionary incest avoidance theories.

A bushy haired protagonist is seated across an interrogation table from a bald police officer.

"Did you raise your daughter with love?"

Secondary cop: "OH MAN, YOU READ HIM LIKE A BOOK. HE GOES TO ALL THE PTA MEETINGS AND GRADUATION CEREMONIES."

"But she says your dirt and smelly...and demands that her laundry and yours are done separately, right. Does that make you angry?"

"It's not your daughters fault though. It's animal instinct. In the animal world...most children don't live with their fathers. So a child might grow up never meeting her father or knowing who he is. If they mate their children will be genetically predisposed to defects. That's why their genes send out a warning signal. Biologically your daughter is getting the message, "Don't mate with him." That's why she acts out."

"It's not because she's a brat. Or because you really do stink. You said that you must have raised her wrong. But it's the opposite. You've raised her well. If you'd failed as a father, she'd be a daddy's girl clinging to you into adulthood and...she'd be wishing she could marry you. It's the same to with mama's boys. You might feel sad about the way things are but I think it just means that you've been a good father to her. So it's not that you did a poor job raising her. In fact, thanks to you she's going to grow up to be a fine young woman. I think that's wonderful."

The cop leaves and says "This is creeping me out."

"It's only a theory. And I think it's a pretty good one."

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

All this Odyssey talk jus makes me wonder where a 4k release of oh brother where art thou is. I’d pay to see that in a theater again

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George Clooney's Happy Smile and Wink

ALT: George Clooney's Happy Smile and Wink

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Yen Press @yenpress.com · 27/07/2026

🎥 Follow Sitara, now Fatima, in her journey in the anime as she wields her astrolabe—a quiet weapon of science and calculation—to navigate scholar life, unlock the secrets of the stars, and reshape the greatest empire in the world. 🌌📜 📗 A Witch’s Life in Mongol, Vol. 1: buff.ly/84uY4jV

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sunday lazy day with a magazine I can’t even read. Good thing it has pictures

Latest edition of Japanese manga magazine Hana to yume. Features a guy with piercings on a neon yellow background

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 25/07/2026

Final SDCC D&Q announcement: Lady Hokusai (!!!) by Sugiura Hinako (I like this one)

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Yen Press @yenpress.com · 25/07/2026

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: Champignon Witch Deep within the depths of a forest resides a peculiar dark witch. Dwelling in an abode created by poisonous mushrooms, leaving toxic fungi in her wake and even exhaling noxious spores with every breath she takes, Luna lives a rather solitary existence.

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

YEN GOT CHAMPIGNON WITCH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

UDON Entertainment has announced at SDCC that they've licensed the following: - Hiromi Matsuo's Department Store Waltz and Rondo: The Ladies' Graphic Magazine (both all-color manga and illustration book) - Belles Ruelles (anthology manga series) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Aila @aila.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hey @debaoki.bsky.social Can you point me in the direction of who at udon I need to beg to be considered a part of their newly announced hiromi matsuo licneses? You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger fan than me.

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