Johnny L.
@johnnylandmine.bsky.social
Osaka-based freelance tranSLAYER and DEADitor for manga and video GRAVES.
This is one of my favorite Bocchi panels because we got to cash in on nearly seven full volumes with a "Teen" rating and no profanity harsher than the occasional "dammit"
![Panels from the Bocchi the Rock! manga. A reclusive musician, her face covered, tells "everyone who ever wrote [her]" off to "eat shit and die" on a livestream.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c7qe3jz7eok3ovmyxzmi4j7u/bafkreidfwns4lhwqcptjyhiwhn5ygsogzvdoiavsu473uepy6r2uyb765a@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is one of my favorite Bocchi panels because we got to cash in on nearly seven full volumes with a "Teen" rating and no profanity harsher than the occasional "dammit"
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Reposted by Johnny L.
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
A.K.I. stuffing a boiled egg directly into her face is oddly appropriate but smdh they gave us two Lukes instead of one Chun-Li scarfing a pork bun
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A.K.I. stuffing a boiled egg directly into her face is oddly appropriate but smdh they gave us two Lukes instead of one Chun-Li scarfing a pork bun
Guess it's time to add "translators rarely have any say in the English titles of the manga they translate" to the big wall of signs people should stop making me tap
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Guess it's time to add "translators rarely have any say in the English titles of the manga they translate" to the big wall of signs people should stop making me tap
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This is not intended as a value judgement - I like Street Fighter 6 a lot! - but I've noticed that I have the most fun in Vampire Savior when I play my weird purple B-tier fave, in Third Strike when I play my weird purple B-tier fave, and in SF6 when I play an S-tier who does all the SF6 stuff good
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This is not intended as a value judgement - I like Street Fighter 6 a lot! - but I've noticed that I have the most fun in Vampire Savior when I play my weird purple B-tier fave, in Third Strike when I play my weird purple B-tier fave, and in SF6 when I play an S-tier who does all the SF6 stuff good
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KEEP HONKING
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
KEEP HONKING
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
Ludonarrative dissonance: Dhalsim is the kindest, most good-natured character in the Street Fighter franchise, but you have to be a truly antisocial sicko to play as him
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Ludonarrative dissonance: Dhalsim is the kindest, most good-natured character in the Street Fighter franchise, but you have to be a truly antisocial sicko to play as him
Noss & Zakuro hit me right out the gate with the James Ensor jumpscare
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Noss & Zakuro hit me right out the gate with the James Ensor jumpscare
ICOCA Platypus Gang stays winning
「Suicaのペンギン」2026年度末をもって“卒業”へ。Suica誕生25周年を機に、新たなイメージキャラクターへバトンタッチ。作者の坂崎千春氏も感謝のコメント
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511112m
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511112m
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ICOCA Platypus Gang stays winning
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We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
Just translated my 5,000th page of manga for the year. It had a traffic cone on it
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just translated my 5,000th page of manga for the year. It had a traffic cone on it
the cast of Mahou Daisakusen as playable characters
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
the cast of Mahou Daisakusen as playable characters
If I had a nickel for every time I found out someone whose main claim to fame when I knew them was being vaguely tolerated in the 2006 goth scene is now a weirdo fascist influencer, I'd have three nickels, which actually does strike me as a lot in this specific context
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If I had a nickel for every time I found out someone whose main claim to fame when I knew them was being vaguely tolerated in the 2006 goth scene is now a weirdo fascist influencer, I'd have three nickels, which actually does strike me as a lot in this specific context
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We need the criterion closet but for old video games
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We need the criterion closet but for old video games
I'm still convinced this game only maintains any prestige in the modern-day shmup community at all because it says Squaresoft on it and many of us were teens in the late 90s, but credit where it's due, when it's cool, it's very cool.
Here's something fresh for everyone on PS1 shmup Einhänder! I had to really dig to find this game's treasure, but I did find it in the end:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/10/e...
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/10/e...
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I'm still convinced this game only maintains any prestige in the modern-day shmup community at all because it says Squaresoft on it and many of us were teens in the late 90s, but credit where it's due, when it's cool, it's very cool.
Happy tenth birthday to Fallout 4, a game that taste so good when u ain't got a No Mutants Allowed poster in ya ear telling you it's nasty
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Happy tenth birthday to Fallout 4, a game that taste so good when u ain't got a No Mutants Allowed poster in ya ear telling you it's nasty
This is one of those covers where the instant you read those words, you've already heard the entire cover in your head. Like when Salem did "Better Off Alone"
K.K. Slider cover of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is one of those covers where the instant you read those words, you've already heard the entire cover in your head. Like when Salem did "Better Off Alone"
Never is "Thing / Thing, Japan" more correct than when the thing is "November on the internet"
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never is "Thing / Thing, Japan" more correct than when the thing is "November on the internet"
I'm like a xxxHOLiC, but for booze
【ニュース】
xxxHOLiC × 英国風パブHUB コラボ開催決定
●開催期間
2026年1月8日（木）～25日（日）
開催店舗など、詳細は後日下記にてお知らせ
HP： product.amiami.jp/amiami/proje...
X： x.com/amiami_p_event
#CLAMP
#xxxHOLiC
#HUB
xxxHOLiC × 英国風パブHUB コラボ開催決定
●開催期間
2026年1月8日（木）～25日（日）
開催店舗など、詳細は後日下記にてお知らせ
HP： product.amiami.jp/amiami/proje...
X： x.com/amiami_p_event
#CLAMP
#xxxHOLiC
#HUB
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm like a xxxHOLiC, but for booze
My only comment on the FGC discourse du jour—or at least what half of the participants believe the discourse to be—is that it's normal for kids to beat grown-ups at video games. You only think it's weird because you're the grown-ups now
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My only comment on the FGC discourse du jour—or at least what half of the participants believe the discourse to be—is that it's normal for kids to beat grown-ups at video games. You only think it's weird because you're the grown-ups now
One thing I wish Bluesky would copy from Twitter is how it handled multiple retweets of the same thing. My whole timeline right now is six of you reposting the same several posts from a guy I follow to begin with
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One thing I wish Bluesky would copy from Twitter is how it handled multiple retweets of the same thing. My whole timeline right now is six of you reposting the same several posts from a guy I follow to begin with
Aaand it's done. This is a title that I think is extremely cool, but my pace translating it is downright glacial. At least my wife, who is a native Japanese person, read a few volumes and said "wow, this is *tough*," so at least I know it's not just me.
What I'm working on right now feels like it's had me trapped in the top right quadrant for weeks and I'm fighting for my fucking life here
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Aaand it's done. This is a title that I think is extremely cool, but my pace translating it is downright glacial. At least my wife, who is a native Japanese person, read a few volumes and said "wow, this is *tough*," so at least I know it's not just me.
What I'm working on right now feels like it's had me trapped in the top right quadrant for weeks and I'm fighting for my fucking life here
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
What I'm working on right now feels like it's had me trapped in the top right quadrant for weeks and I'm fighting for my fucking life here