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Hi! Found your twitter through mdex. First of all thanks for your work! I love the series you pick up and how nice your work is. But I wish you could finish your ongoing series before picking new ones... I can't help but wonder if the older ones will be finished, as it's been a while since you released anything for them... I hope you can continue mermaid prince and koi ni naru soon
trust me i know... i keep telling myself to finish shit and yet i keep picking up new works out of the fear that someone else might put out a sloppy tl HHGFSJHGJDSFG but dw i will finish those! can't say much about mermaid prince since i'm not the main tler but i will finish yayakoi! mmn, imooshi, and another project will be my last ones for now hopefully (the "another project" was planned since earlier this year as i'm waiting for the tanko release)
Do you have any reccomendations for BL comedies?
i recently reread red-light trouble and found it hilarious haha
What's the most annoying amateur translation mistake for you? For me it's "it can't be helped"
translating 抱く as "hold" or "embrace" when the situation obviously calls for "fuck" or similar
do you know of more tled bl with mangaka/manga industry settings besides sensei mou dame or moto yakuza
in no particular order!
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BNUUY!!!!!!!
Hi! Have you ever read a BL where the couple's dynamics are : "when the suicidal, self-hating, self- doubting character starts moving on from the guilt they felt bc the sunshine starts brightening up their life and assuring them it is okay..." Just saw someone post ships with this trope but they're all het ones! I'm dying to see BL ships with this trope.... Thanks ⭐
polaris at dawn is actually that lol! not exactly self-hating but...you'll see what i mean once you get past vol 1
Would you like a pet bnuuy?
i had one, actually! would i get another in the future? maybe...
is there any hyper-specific piece of knowledge you learned from a BL?
hmm. let me think...
- the most common teaching license in japan is type two, which takes about two years to get
- if it rains on tanabata, orihime and hilo oshi can't meet
- the suspension bridge effect
- the different kinds of servers in a restaurant
- polar bears can cannibalize if needed
- polaris wasn't always the north star
out of the various projects you’ve worked on over the past few years, what are you most proud of? translation, lettering, web design, anything goes!
recently it would be koi's website!
top 5 favorite animals? 👀
- rabbit
- bunny
- うさぎ
- bnuuy
- ra*bit
abt meteoric milky night…. i just read the free sample and omfg it’s so interesting,, of course i’m not forcing u to tl it but if u do i would be extremely grateful 😇
we will see! we will see... i'll def have a bigger team than usual if i do bc i already have projects i need to tl haha 😭
If you don't mind me asking, why do you dislike omegaverse, dom/sub verse, and other verses? I know that some omegaverse have toxic relationship with red flag alpha, but some also have green flag alpha with healthy relationship... (Sorry, I don't mean anything negative just curiosity)
aside from my personal issues with omegaverse, it's such a cheap plot device. there's so many ways you can move a story forward without some looming "instinct." also it just makes no sense. if those were real, the human race would be Dead and Gone, y'know? lol. also i really don't like how omegaverse just keeps reinventing misogyny and sexism
i also think it might be because non-canon relationships aren’t as restricted as canon ones iykwim, the shippers have more room to imagine how they would act sort of thing? if it were canon, it’d be completely up to the author how their relationship grows and it might not align with the readers’ impression of the ship or something. just my 2 cents tho!
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perhaps... perhaps! yeah there's that and the huge fanbase that helps too
Hello, Ren. Do you know some romance anime, "Kimi ni Todoke", "Sign of Affection", "Ao Haru Ride" and the new anime this season, "Yakuza Fiance" and "Nina the Starry Bride"? All are het romance series and I watch them (unwillingly) with my friends. See, now I'm at a phase where I can't enjoy het romance (especially if they're focus of the story), so while I watch, I always imagine if the femMC is a guy (sorry). I can't tell my friends that I don't enjoy them because my IRL friends don't know that I love BL & GL or any queer media. They said "I don't care if someone gay or lesbian or whatever but I'm not pro LGBTQ. Why can't they just be normal? And I don't want to read or watch anything queer." We live in anti-LGBTQ+ country so that's the norm (even my family like that) but I'm still sad can't be my self around them. That's why I love my online friends. Especially you, @riamuyumemi. Thanks for your BL recs and reviews, they really help me...
Oh, yeah do you have any fav BL of Old man Yaoi? Do you prefer older uke or older seme? Sorry for this long ask.
i'm sorry to hear that but i'm glad my tweets helped! hopefully you can get out of there if you want to one day. as for the second bit, my fav is probably old fashioned cupcake! and i think i prefer older bottoms
Why do you think most people prefer non canon ships than canon ones (especially for m/m and f/f)? I know someone who don't want to read/watch BL & GL but love queerbaiting series (male-male dynamics & female-female dynamics but until the end they don't become couple) and they even write fics for those duos (where they got together i fics). I also love some non canon ships but canon ones are the best!
probably because those series have more time to develop their relationship and that romance isn't the focus... hmmm
lmao I saw that too and the thing is realistically it's physically impossible to be both a porn star and an idol. an ex idol who became a porn star said filming porn is like, 10 times more tiring than performing on stage and often she'd be bedridden for a day or two after filming. so yeah porn idol is impossible not just culturally but most definitely physically
yeah i heard of idols becoming porn stars (man...) but never at the same time. it's hilarious but like...whatever floats their boat ig? oh and i tweeted that bc there's a new series in gush titled toxic nova that's about it
do you have any all boys school BL manga reccs?
oh man. let me think... i don't really care if a school is coed or not most of the time in bl LOL
do you have a portfolio for the stuff you do perhaps?
i really should make one, huh? but i do have examples:
Fun ask! Have you ever read BL with seme-like uke & uke-like seme? See, I just finished a BL that at first, I'm sure A is the seme and B is the uke, then last chapter (where there's smut) and BOOM! I was surprised that A is the uke and B is the seme, like WHAT? REALLY?! (This is my first time read BL with seme who looked, talked, & acted like uke and vice versa...)
yes... this is the trope i look for a lot in bl but it's SO hard to find and it's even HARDER to find good ones 😭 kimi no sumire is one example of a good one tho the smut is very minimal lol
Hello, as someone who is new in BL (just started in july 2023) your BL recs & reviews, really help me. Thanks a lot!
Can I ask something? My friend who is shoujosei lover told me that shoujo-BL is just as great as regular BLs and have longer stories. But when I read them, somehow I don't feel like reading BL (sorry, I know it's weird thing to say). What do you think? If a manga have canon m/m couples or romance between males, does it mean they're also BL? Some that I read are : Kieta Hatsukoi, Requiem of Rose King, Cruel God Reign, God Child, and Golden Days.
- nah i get it. shoujo has a different vibe to modern bl to me at least. like, it feels way more idealized and honestly i prefer the more "grounded" feel bl has
- hmmmm if we want to talk about it in a marketing (?) perspective then it Depends. if something is marketed as a bl, run in a bl magazine, or is under a bl label, then that's what i define as actual "bl." kieta hatsukoi is a strange one but i feel like that would be considered bl, although i haven't looked too deeply into it. chillchill lists titles that aren't marketed as bl but has gay subtext and there would be an indicator somewhere that it's not bl
the slow damage "retranslation" isn't a "retranslation", they just edited the jast loc and barely in places (there are entire sections where just a couple words were changed)
that's why "retranslation" is in scare quotes LOL
I vaguely remember having read some japanese web bl novels where some characters are actually explicitly stated as trans but 1. I can't remember what they're called and 2. they're poorly written and I probably dropped them
well... uhm... 💀
“love me for who i am” is classified as BL on mangadex, though the protagonist is nonbinary! regardless of if it “counts” as BL i think it would still fit the vibe (i know the artstyle starts…like that, i promise it gets better)
technically no, it's not a bl. it's not marketed as a bl nor is it under a bl label, but the mangaka is making bl recently haha. i actually adore the art style too 😭 this mangaka does both bl and yuri which is based
for under the trans umbrella, "boy meets maria" has a nonbinary (iirc) ml! and not sure if "shimanami tasogare" counts as a bl, but there are lgbtq+ supporting characters
i didn't include boy meets maria bc from what i remember, it wasn't explicitly stated but close enough! and shimanami tasogare isn't a bl, but it sure made me cry a river!