comics
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Translator Steps Down From Shonen Jump Manga After Declaring It Untranslatable
Anime and manga enjoyers often come across the odd joke or pun in their favourite series that lands in Japanese but doesn’t translate well into English. While English translators do their damnedest to provide context behind either cultural or phonetic puns in editor’s notes (typically within a manga panel’s margins or alongside an anime’s subtitles),…
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Buy Your Valentine These $AU22,000 Sailor Moon Boots Or You Don’t Love Them
British luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo, which has spent the past 40-ish years slipping handmade heels on anyone from Princess Diana to new brides, recently announced a collaboration with Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi. The capsule collection follows up Jimmy Choo’s 2022 collaboration with Takeuchi — a pair of $US15,000 ($AU21,682) bespoke, fuschia boots, ornamented with…
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Disney+’s Animated Hit-Monkey Is Returning, But It’s No Longer A Marvel Show
Fans of Disney+’s animated series Hit-Monkey had probably long already accepted that the show was done. The series debuted in late 2021 on Disney’s US platform Hulu, ran for 10 episodes, people liked it, and then it was radio silence for over a year. In today’s day and age, that length of non-news almost always means…
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Marvel’s New Core Avengers Team Will Prove Its Might Starting In May
Every couple of years, Marvel Comics’ Avengers shakes up its roster so the creative team on hand can tell new stories that will eventually rise to cataclysmic heights. Since 2018, Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness’ run has put Earth’s Mightiest Heroes through the ringer, but that run’s on its way to winding down after the…