Brain Vs. Book

What a month, friends!

Obviously, if I see a book with the words “freak out collection” on the cover, I am going to pick it up.

How can it be time for an anniversary already??

I translate a lot of different kinds of books—manga, light novels, the regular sort of novels, the occasional work of non-fiction—but the majority of my work is manga, if only because there is more of it that needs to be translated.

Books bring me a lot of joy in so many ways, not the least of which is paying my rent through my translations of them.

It’s a weird thing to read a memoir by a friend.

Back when I was a Youth, we had no internet.

As you may remember (or not if you have the same goldfish memory I do), I hung up my TCAF hat a few years back after Brain friend and favourite Torikai Akane graced the festival with her presence, and handed the torch to my eminently qualified successor w…

As a Canadian, I am no stranger to royalty.

Not long after returning to Tokyo, I was scanning the fantasy shelves at my favourite bookstore in the hopes of finding a new Yatagarasu book, as is my custom even when I know there couldn’t possibly be a new one yet since the last one only came out the w…

In each episode of Shuppunk, a great Japanese YouTube channel on publishing and books, they take an author to the bookstore (one of my favourite bookstores, in fact, so you know I am wandering those familiar aisles vicariously and wishing they would go ov…