Buddy Waters
@buddywaters
Translator for Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Recommendations for Bad Children, Bofuri, Reign of the Seven Spellblades 4+, Overlord 14+, Haruhi Suzumiya (Intuition+), Witches Can't be Collared, Rascal Does Not Dream
Also did you know mochiron is short for mochi ni mayonnaise wo kakeru no wa rongai
One way to handle getting cancelled is to abandon your plot kill 98% of the Earth's population reveal that Arisu is a tsuchinoko, meet the ghost of the earth, capture the oligarchy, and then resurrect everyone with tsuchinoko poop.
JK Biker 3 Dude writing tiny letters next to every sound effect turning them into other words and then complaining that there's too many オs
Back half was more fun with lots of gory deaths and some solid comedy Given that this publisher has killed the print versions of the last two things I tried from them no telling it I'll ever see more
Never Speak of Nekonome Yuuka New manga by Ayasato Keishi An ojosama school with lots of rules Including never interact with the dead girl Unless she decides to save you from a ghost
Silent Witch 12 This first half involves a village using her name to drive business because Dee is a dick. It's fine! The second half introduces Ray's fiancee who is the best, showing up a full day early because she's good at riding horses, then dueling her own brother for the right to marry Ray.
This thing is exactly like [thing it does not resemble at all] is now a deep seated epidemic proving on a daily basis our species has failed but I have now found the single worst example of it ever
"Is he fucking serious?" "He is fudging serious." How I discovered that in my head Subaru swears like a normal teen dude while Beatrice always uses the airplane edit words.
Draw This Then Die 9 Especially like the first chapter where they start out by describing the roles each plays and wind up swapping by the end of it and realizing they shouldn't limit themselves.
That turned out to be Ruby, the character from her novels who came up in conversation several volumes back and will be getting a spinoff if she can figure out a plot
This whole Makio speech on how people better than her quit writing and she couldn't so she decided to definite talent as an inability to stop
Ikoku Nikki 9 Writer's block depicted as words tumbling through your fingers like sand
June reading. One less book than last month but actually more pages, lots of these were loooong.
Meanwhile in Bluesky is busted, the Japanese Hot feed appears to just not exist any more, but that means it straight up doesn't show up on your list of feeds so I can't actually figure out how to remove it from the feeds I follow.
Also YouTube it's pretty racist to show me an AI generated white woman's afro beats above the song I'm searching for
In classic Kadono style this new Boogiepop just dropped referenced to his Soul Drop series. Also his musical tastes continue to defy what you expect from Japanese authors.
Japanese version of rhyming slang is titles of novels before they were given new ones in translation
Meanwhile the (timely) footnote about Red River is mostly just bitching that nobody knew to read 天 as Sora
Books I know I said I wasn't getting more Min-Maxing but apparently I'd added it to my cart so I guess maybe I'll try it someday?
The Medium in the Box Touka is hoping for a fresh start at her new school, but when four shy girls ask for her help breaking a chain letter curse, and one of them vanishes, she's forced to turn the to class fortune teller... who's actually running seances with a cabinet that belonged to John Dee.