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I live in Tokyo.
I have become well versed in the ancient art called 厳正なる抽選の結果残念ながらチケットをご用意することができませんでした
It means that luck is gifted to only a select few. To everyone else, there’s always the livestream. twitter.com/jamierusso/sta…
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いい声の女といい男
#楽紡の日
#8月26日は楽紡の日
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I’m going to break down the process of working on manga in Japan just because I got a few questions/realized that certain things I take for granted aren’t as universally known as I thought.
Let’s start with what sort of job category it falls into:
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I observed an interesting thing some days ago. A TV station in California asked, in a bit shaky Japanese, if they could use the photos from a JP user. I thought I got why JP users were poking fun at it, but it turns out it was for a different reason than I assumed:
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I think people really misunderstand what doujin means at times.
A lot of times you see it translated as amateur or fan works, but independent is a more accurate way to put it. They can be amateur, and they can be based off of another work, but they can be fully original, too.
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What cracks me up about this is that it’s a cover of a cover of a Eurobeat song about the USA that became a meme in Japan like 2 years ago and relaunched the career of an old Japanese music group because of the cover Enstars is now covering twitter.com/ensemble_stars…
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the true dangers (or perks?) of mixing 2d with 3d (RTs appreciated!)
#makeupanotomeman
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Okay, so I have 4 pages of this so let's give it a tag...
#makeupanotomeguy
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...or maybe the right kind of representation in an otome game? (yes, i am continuing this) twitter.com/sakaimii/statu…
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We talk a lot about how the anime industry is pretty relentless to work in (and we should keep at it), but I don’t think there’s enough focus on how insane manga is as well. The further I get into things, the more things I see that are pretty hard to swallow.
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This tweet is polling opinions about what age people believe one should stop cosplaying bc it’s a question they often see others wrestling with.
The replies of full of older cosplayers (some 50+) showing off their work and recounting how they never stopped or started late 🥺 twitter.com/emoma_cosplay/…