Love, That's an Understatement 7 has an artfully retouched "Xmas Partay" invitation (by amazing letterer Lys Blakeslee) written by a not-so-studious character. It gets mistaken for something made by a little kid, and the bad handwriting in English is so believable!

Especially with 1000+ Pokémon to know. I never thought about that but it’s insane. Your post resulted in my kid requesting to do Pokémon shiritori for the first time in several years in both Japanese and English, and I find I have already forgotten the majority of what I once knew.

Sometimes it isn’t apparent immediately, which isn’t too bad when reading to myself (because my brain automatically goes back and thinks, “okay this was spoken”) but when I’m reading aloud to my kids, there are times when I have to stop and reread a section in the proper “voice”

Yesss I saw! I didn’t think it was possible!

Oh my god what?! This is amazing and I’m super happy it’s coming in English (even if it’s digital only for now) but I’m also like “I missed my shot to translate my ultimate dream title.”

Oh my gosh no!!! I totally did not expect that to ever happen!

Yeah, he wrote for a few series he didn’t do the art for, and I think Crown was the most well-received out of them!

Anything by Shinji Wada. Pygmalio or Sukeban Deka would be amazing, but his earlier one-offs are great too, like Arisa With Silver Hair, or even early Choshojo Asuka, which are largely episodic and don’t necessarily require the entire (unfinished) series to be localized.

My kanji henkan went weird as well very recently, and now when I try to type my last name サベジ, it comes up with 個人懇談 first and it makes no sense at all. Whyyy

Same!!

Yes, I hope this inspires more of her works to get licensed too

God I hope so

I know! It was a huge surprise.

Ahh! Thank you so much❤️ More than once I have gotten through working on this thinking, "What would Jocelyne Allen do?"