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Nice! I have that, but haven't delved into it yet. Nice to know that it can do the manuals too, that's a great use case.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 7h

I like Mr. Max

A panel from Osamu Tezuka's manga Phoenix: Future depicting a bulbous guinea pig (that really looks more like a chipmunk…)

Dialogue: Look! You’ve given an elephant’s nutrients to a guinea pig!!

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 7h

What are you using to display the manual below?

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 9h

Nice! Thanks for sharing that.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 10h

I've never found a copy out in the wild, but I've kept my eyes open for it. I know Lea Hernandez did coloring for the colored issues of Ranma 1/2 Viz put out, and I think Silent Möbius. The dialogue looks like her lettering, too. Could you show the credits page?

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 11h

Viz published a full color adaption of GUNHED by Kiya Asamiya, which has the novelty of being published in a squat wide format because it was originally in Newtype Magazine

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 11h

Quantum of Solace on the DS.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 12h

Like, it's one of my favorite Beatles songs to begin with, and I always thought of the opening warm-up riffs as part of that. I heard the other versions, but didn't realize until I was adult that the false start was a cutting error. But it's in-time with the rest of the song. It's so good.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 12h

The super deluxe version of Rubber Soul is out now, reminding me of how the MP3s my dad gave me as a kid were the US stereo version of the album which has the false start at the beginning of I'm Looking Through You. The actual stereo mix is bad. But the false start is vital. youtu.be/brREJG5oWhk?...

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I'm Looking Through You (US Stereo Version)

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 01/10/2026

He'd kill it, just like with Ryuk. How many other Jump villains could he play in live action?

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 01/10/2026

They should make Dragon Ball Evolution 2. Set it around Super Hero since Justin Chatwin is around the age Goku is there. Guaranteed hit.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 30/09/2026

I watched this Force Unleashed dev video so many times as a kid, totally convinced that Digital Molecular Matter was going to revolutionize gaming. A phrase that everyone would know. youtu.be/cqgMfH1qwNM?...

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Star Wars The Force Unleashed - Digital Molecular Matter Tech Demo

YouTube video by Star Wars HoloNet

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 30/09/2026

He also had a dorky haircut that he told me he kept because someone told him it made him look like Macklemore. Gotta let that be a W in retrospect.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 30/09/2026

Always laugh when I remember my freshman college roommate who asked me why I'd watch anime when it was all so disrespectful to women. (The only show he ever watched that year was Family Guy.)

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Taiyo Matsumoto Sketchbook" is coming. A 336-page artbook featuring drawings that the artist sent to his unofficial fanclub between 2018 and 2021. Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 26/09/2026

My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 28/09/2026

Desperate to see what the lettering looks like on this release.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 28/09/2026

Pretty sure that's the old Director's Cut. Manhunter has a similar history with the recent Final Cut coming decades after the Dorector's cut, but even outside of those big names cuts, Mann still tinkered in minor ways on various releases without fully saying so. Heat too.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 28/09/2026

Curious about the new cut. The theatrical and Director's both have notable strengths and weaknesses. To the point that the "Miami Nice" fan edit has been a great mesh. Hoping that the Final Cut is along the lines of that one. Not anywhere near my favorite Mann, but still good and intriguing.

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Rick @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 28/09/2026

Newtype January 1994

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青空四十郎 @40raw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#HG 今月完成したのはバンダイ製、HGブルーティッシュドッグになります。頭が丸く大きく見えるよう後頭部を1㎜延長。ガトリングはユニットとして１から適当に作ってみました。ターンピックも大きくしたり、拳もWAVEのFハンドMサイズを使って大きくしています。バトリング専用機としてカスタムアップされた機体というイメージ。オーナーはリアルバトルのチャンプという妄想です(笑)。

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been messing around with Doom Builder

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rafael zaiats @cornpunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

something's gonna happen with these 3 chapters soon…

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 28/09/2026

I had to learn manual the day I bought my Passat, and got accustomed pretty quick. Most fun I've ever had diving was a hilly area in Pennsylvania where I HD to stay on the ball with downshifting and coasting.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 28/09/2026

Impressive how shoddy the restorations on the showa Godzilla movies are. Fuzzy, with lots of blemishes. At least Ebirah doesn't have visible splices at the end of every cut.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 26/09/2026

I saw the double feature of Ratatouille and Pirates of the Caribbean 3, two weekends in a row. Once with friends before going to camp, and then with my family after they picked me up from camp. Haven't seen either since.

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Iris/アイリス 🏳️‍⚧️ @irisdescentbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

funniest rom hack reasoning of all time

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 25/09/2026

Two dots can work, but it usually causes that line to get off-kilter. Three gradient is part of the bitmap data, but there are many cases where stuff like the plants and spped lines in those panels cover up much of the tone. There were maybe ten lines under the left sfx with no clean dots to sample.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 25/09/2026

Her overall number of letting projects isn't huge, but she's one of the absolute best. Blade of the Immortal has unbelievable sound effects. Domu is incredible.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 25/09/2026

Ooh, is it lettered by Tomoko Saito? Looks like her custom font that's used for most of Blade of the Immortal.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

The Delinquent and the Transfer Student volume 2 is out now! I adore this series, and lettering it was a huge challenge. I'm incredibly proud of the results, and wake to display some comparisons of the Japanese and English lettering. Here are some, with more in the thread below!

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 25/09/2026

I try. On this page, there were no clean samples of the gradient under either sound effect. The one on the right had at least two dots visible per row, so I got a pretty rough but complete samepke built up. The one on the left had nothing usable for 10 rows so I had to approximate in some areas.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 25/09/2026

I think the presence of a gradient screen tone without a clean area to sample is biggest factor. That happens in both. I enjoy retouching stuff drawn on paper more since it gives more room to make stuff irregular or imperfect. Digitally drawn titles have more precise elements.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

D&TS is drawn digitally, with sfx placed over completed art. The lines under SFX are contiguous. Billy Bat is drawn on paper, with sfx usually inked first. The lines that go into them may not line up with those on the other side, so it's good to make the English sound effect cover the same seams.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

I usually start my whiting out the Japanese text so I can see clearly what needs to be done. If feasible, I like to retouch without the English sound effect or text in place since that gives me full visibility. If it's hard retouch, I'll do some easy aspects, then EN text, and then wrap up retouch.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

On nearly every manga project I've lettered, the dialogue itself is the easiest part. That comes with a lot of practice and accumulated knowledge, but it's still usually a few days per book. The sound effects and retouch typically account for 80% of the time spent on a book.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

Always the sound effects. I think volume 1 might have been a little harder on its own merits since it had a few more instances of very tricky retouch and effects that were difficult to mimic, but volume 2 overlapped with some other books in my schedule which made finishing it comparatively harder.

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The Beguiling @thebeguiling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New manga time!

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

In comparison, I letter a Korean comic where I'm tasked with making the speech bubbles myself. There's a big emphasis on making the tails point to the speaker's head in that project, especially since transitioning from vertical scroll arrangement to print introduces some reading order ambiguity.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

Oh yeah, I hadn't even thought of it like that! I initially used the original bubble and split it into "Mega-fan?" on two lines. The editor suggested making the bubble horizontal. By virtue of that, the tail ended up pointing to her head more clearly. Not first consideration here, but active.

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Mike Display Name @therexwolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Griffin Dunne in After Hours is a first ballot hall of fame facial reactions performance

Griffin dunne, lips drawn back tight, looking to the side, one eyebrow raised

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

The series is full of asides, and I wrote them all by hand. It takes a long time, but I felt that Fujichika-sensei put so much love into that hand-drawn look that I needed to as well. This is volume 2 of 3, and it's such a delight. I hope you check it out!

An image from The Delinquent and the Transfer Student volume 2 in English.

An image from The Delinquent and the Transfer Student volume 2 in Japanese.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

And here are some other pages with fun stuff. I could reuse most of the "welcome to", but had to capitalize the W and move "to" over. I'm particularly fond of how the "OMAKE" text turned out.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

Now That's What I Call Localization

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

The standout difficult pages in volume 2 were these festival shots with singing. Lots of retouch to be safe. The English text has more characters and needs to read horiziontally. The music notes were left in place, so text had to go around them. I drew guides and then traced in the original style.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

Layering of text into the image is so much fun. Same with doing block letters that overlap with each other. And when we need to use more characters in English, there's a bit of a puzzle for how to situate each character. Gotta keep the overall balance the same and fit in the margins.

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 24/09/2026

Fujichika-sensei drew tons of great signage and packaging in this series, none of it looking too uniform. It was a lot of fun trying to replicate that style and figure out how to arrange the text.

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