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the sloth strip feels a bit different in japanese because sloths are called ナマケモノ, literally "lazy one/person"

fun fact: the dharma names of all the monk trainees (except for ryan/rai-an, obviously) are alternate readings of the kanji in their civilian first names

the multiverse arc is finally here!! seeing all these versions of black is really fun. i think 羅 comes from 阿修羅, the way they write "Asura" in japanese. that fits in a bit more with how the rest of the characters in karakuri black's name are fighting-themed. also sorry to to point it out but the...

if the last volume of a bimonthly manga series gets released 3 months after the end of serialization and its only being sold digitally, what exactly does this mean from the publisher's side? because i remember hearing about another series whose publishing was much more of a mess and got a...

"mr flowerbloom" is a reference to the folktale hanasaka jiisan. couldve been any other littering-concious person, but i guess the author needed to somehow still keep with the cherry blossom theme.

finally... the long-awaited not-poppy playtime chapter... and looking at that cast reunion new volume cover, is black channel ending?

now that kangel and ame-chan are marketable plushies, i can grab their heads and crush them! because thats what plushies are totally for!

i read this promotional vertical scroll manga for a game called ORE'N last month. doing so put me in the trenches of constantly thinking about the game lore, but thats not really relevant here. i also started wondering how much of a technical nightmare it would be to somehow translate it and...

mangadex april fools is totally not a conspiracy by fan translators to get you to read their projects omusubi is triangular like a rice ball and his nose even looks like a pickled plum. which means coincidentally onigiri samurai/slicenrice from yokai watch looks like him. also eat your carrots...

black has a prehensile tail? thats interesting. wonder how heavy it is if a grade schooler can carry and bonk people with it. double smashing gag with the tail was pretty funny too. purples tail works as another limb too? you know what? who would win, blacks tail or purples tail? dang ash is a...

i tried practicing drawing in a "cartoon" style or something like that

the magazine is obviously titled "Sunho" so i am very confused as why the translators keep calling it "Sanrio". sanrio (サンリオ) and the parent company of the magazine, Sun Hoseki (サン宝石) both have サン in their names, but they're not related. i swear, people first mix sanrio up with san-x and now...