this week on beat's bizarre halloventure: i came back from covid leave to write about usamaru furuya's the music of marie! also, 🦋尹小莉🌻🎏 covers a fairy tale battle royale manga, and Adorabirb! takes us to the horny dimension

If you're at all into mecha and/or epic poetry, I extremely recommend Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright. Two things you wouldn't think to combine at first, but the language of mechs flows so naturally into verse, as if coming home to its roots. A modern epic genre in a classic epic form

I’m off to bed but here’s this thing from earlier if you didn’t see it.

Small team, big aspirations. Find out why FAR (ButaPro) teamed up to start their own anime studio: atani.me/butapro-p1 ✏️

Hi there ensorcelled ranks of the material plane, today I wrote about The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, a nonfiction tome (but aren’t they all imaginary stories?) from Alan Moore, Steve Moore and more: tcj.com/the-moon-and-s…

New interview at Yatta-Tachi! I spoke to Emuh Ruh at Glacier Bay Books about licensing Natsujikei Miyazaki, the upcoming release of Flash Point, and the realities of manga publishing

here’s me raven about one of the best anime series of the year, YATAGARASU, for @polygon polygon.com/anime/470107/y…

So many people have asked me about my feelings on Han Kang’s Nobel win that I decided to write an essay, yay! Thank you Wasafiri for giving me the space to do it 💜✨ wasafiri.org/content/we-hav…

PopoloCrois Monogatari II (PS1) full English patch is released now by Zenksren and some member who involved via Popolocrois discord! unlike from previous release that Unfinished, this time all of NPC dialogue, object, else is fully translated & subtitled. romhackplaza.org/translations/p…

This fantastic interview was made possible by Andes Chucky, Glacier Bay Books, Bill, & all our amazing supporters! If you would love for us to produce more interviews, such as this one, consider making a one-time or monthly donation: ko-fi.com/yattatachi

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm releasing my first video game! Introducing INTERSTATE 35, an experimental visual novel about going home, set in the irradiated ruins of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Words & design by me, illustrations by Porcelain Bones, music by Josie Brechner. Links below.

I played (another) 50+ visual novels in 1 month (NOT CLICKBAIT) (REAL) and here's my advice to other visual novel developers!! it's been a long month but #SpooktoberVNJam is now over and here's my wrap up for it! 🎃 read it here: arimiadev.com/i-played-anoth…

NOW OUT! Imai Arata's FLASH POINT Glacier Bay Books: Award-winning, post-QAnon manga by 今井新 about the 2022 assassination of former PM Abe Shinzo, conspiracy theories, and social media lynching. Purchase here: glacierbaybooks.com/product/flash-…

This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure: I wrote about Double, a manga series so good that it made me grudgingly acknowledge that Tokyopop exists. Also: Hilary Leung on Alice in Borderland! Derrick Crow on Blood the Last Vampire (2002)!