Ajani Oloye
@aoloye.bsky.social
🇺🇸 J-E translator | Award-winning manga editor | Content director | Former content strategist | 日英翻訳家 | 賞歴がある漫画編集者 | 漫画出版社のコンテンツ・ディレクター | 元コンテンツ・ストラテジスト
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WINNER of the BEST NEW MANGA Category
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, by Sumiko Arai
Editors: Shalini Arimilli, Carl Li
#AmericanMangaAwards #AmericanMangaAwards2025
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, by Sumiko Arai
Editors: Shalini Arimilli, Carl Li
#AmericanMangaAwards #AmericanMangaAwards2025
August 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
WINNER of the BEST NEW MANGA Category
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, by Sumiko Arai
Editors: Shalini Arimilli, Carl Li
#AmericanMangaAwards #AmericanMangaAwards2025
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, by Sumiko Arai
Editors: Shalini Arimilli, Carl Li
#AmericanMangaAwards #AmericanMangaAwards2025
I heard someone pronounce turquoise "tur-kwahz" yesterday, and it still haunts me today.
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I heard someone pronounce turquoise "tur-kwahz" yesterday, and it still haunts me today.
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Ultra Heaven Volume 1 by Keiichi Koike, translated by Ajani Oloye (Last Gasp) reviewed by Brian Nicholson www.tcj.com/reviews/ultr...
Ultra Heaven Volume 1 - The Comics Journal
Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space. The thought appeared unbidden, of the filtered, feminine voice that speaks the line at the outset of the Spiritualized album of the same title. That rec...
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May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ultra Heaven Volume 1 by Keiichi Koike, translated by Ajani Oloye (Last Gasp) reviewed by Brian Nicholson www.tcj.com/reviews/ultr...
New anxiety nightmare just dropped (in my brain)—coming back from a break and seeing that a manga got printed quickly because it went unedited straight to a proofreader who knows zero Japanese AND doesn't have enough lived experience with US English to understand idioms and slang
March 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New anxiety nightmare just dropped (in my brain)—coming back from a break and seeing that a manga got printed quickly because it went unedited straight to a proofreader who knows zero Japanese AND doesn't have enough lived experience with US English to understand idioms and slang
Just one of those scream into the void days because it feels like the very fabric of reality has no chill
March 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just one of those scream into the void days because it feels like the very fabric of reality has no chill
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I learned the answer as a kid from an episode of The Tick animated show and this fact has somehow never left my brain
I learned the answer as a kid from an episode of The Tick animated show and this fact has somehow never left my brain
Which Pastry’s Name Comes From the French for “Lightning”?
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Feb. 10, 2025.
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February 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I learned the answer as a kid from an episode of The Tick animated show and this fact has somehow never left my brain
I learned the answer as a kid from an episode of The Tick animated show and this fact has somehow never left my brain
As a translator, working with Ed has been great bc of his commitment to constructive feedback. Despite doing this for a while, I'm still learning, and it's hard to improve without feedback.
When I joined the manga industry, I vowed to give constructive feedback to freelancers on every book I work on, because it’s what I would’ve wanted if I were in their shoes. Plus, it’s never a bad idea to get a gut check on major edits I make. So far, so good!
Whether you're a translator, editor, or project manager, giving feedback to your coworkers (and yes, I'm including freelancers in that) only helps to improve the overall quality of someone's work. But do it wrong and you could risk power harassment.
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February 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As a translator, working with Ed has been great bc of his commitment to constructive feedback. Despite doing this for a while, I'm still learning, and it's hard to improve without feedback.
Like many people, I've had a lot on my mind in the past few weeks, and I realize one of the biggest problems with the US today is that we treat billionaires and huge corporations like or better than regular people when they're so rich that human laws, both written and unwritten, don't apply to them
February 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Like many people, I've had a lot on my mind in the past few weeks, and I realize one of the biggest problems with the US today is that we treat billionaires and huge corporations like or better than regular people when they're so rich that human laws, both written and unwritten, don't apply to them
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EVERYONE, please take a look!
This is the very first manga in Japan to focus on the experience of mixed-race people in Japan!
It will be available on Amazon starting in March.
The story is truly amazing, so I’d love for as many people as possible to check it out and share!
This is the very first manga in Japan to focus on the experience of mixed-race people in Japan!
It will be available on Amazon starting in March.
The story is truly amazing, so I’d love for as many people as possible to check it out and share!
📢ブルスカでもお知らせさせて‼️📢
大変お待たせいたしました🙏
『半分姉弟』1巻が3月28日に発売することとなりました✊❤️🔥
すでに予約が始まっておりますので、よろしくお願いします🙏
楽天👉 books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/18119816/...
Amazon👉 amzn.asia/d/etvWXHw
1〜3話まではトーチweb上で公開しております👇
to-ti.in/product/hanb...
また、4話以降は単行本描き下ろしという形で刊行することになりました。つまり2巻以降は全編描き下ろしの予定です。
水面下で色々頑張ってましたのでよろしくお願いします…😭💪
大変お待たせいたしました🙏
『半分姉弟』1巻が3月28日に発売することとなりました✊❤️🔥
すでに予約が始まっておりますので、よろしくお願いします🙏
楽天👉 books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/18119816/...
Amazon👉 amzn.asia/d/etvWXHw
1〜3話まではトーチweb上で公開しております👇
to-ti.in/product/hanb...
また、4話以降は単行本描き下ろしという形で刊行することになりました。つまり2巻以降は全編描き下ろしの予定です。
水面下で色々頑張ってましたのでよろしくお願いします…😭💪
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
EVERYONE, please take a look!
This is the very first manga in Japan to focus on the experience of mixed-race people in Japan!
It will be available on Amazon starting in March.
The story is truly amazing, so I’d love for as many people as possible to check it out and share!
This is the very first manga in Japan to focus on the experience of mixed-race people in Japan!
It will be available on Amazon starting in March.
The story is truly amazing, so I’d love for as many people as possible to check it out and share!
The other day, I saw a delivery person on an e-bike get stopped by some random Manhattanite and told to get off the sidewalk. It's not the first time this week that I've seen someone do something about a thing we'd normally let go, and I'm starting to think this is the energy we need in 2025.
January 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The other day, I saw a delivery person on an e-bike get stopped by some random Manhattanite and told to get off the sidewalk. It's not the first time this week that I've seen someone do something about a thing we'd normally let go, and I'm starting to think this is the energy we need in 2025.
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November 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM
The daily announcements of terrible choices for the next administration is like watching increasingly horrifying clowns coming out of a clown car in slow motion
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
The daily announcements of terrible choices for the next administration is like watching increasingly horrifying clowns coming out of a clown car in slow motion
I think I'm going to be listening to Kendrick's "Alright" quite a bit for the foreseeable future
November 7, 2024 at 2:46 AM
I think I'm going to be listening to Kendrick's "Alright" quite a bit for the foreseeable future
This gives me Golden Egg vibes, and I love it (also, now I know "gros" is French slang for "bro")
youtu.be/lxX8SgN6xao?...
youtu.be/lxX8SgN6xao?...
Chuuut, écoute gros
YouTube video by Les Groos
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October 12, 2024 at 10:20 PM
This gives me Golden Egg vibes, and I love it (also, now I know "gros" is French slang for "bro")
youtu.be/lxX8SgN6xao?...
youtu.be/lxX8SgN6xao?...
Perhaps someday I'll have some quality content on here, but right now all I have to share is this song from my high school days that randomly popped into my head at 1:00 am
youtu.be/pr0lCgPIMGI?...
youtu.be/pr0lCgPIMGI?...
JT Money - Who Dat Feat. Solé (Official Video)
YouTube video by JT Money
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October 4, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Perhaps someday I'll have some quality content on here, but right now all I have to share is this song from my high school days that randomly popped into my head at 1:00 am
youtu.be/pr0lCgPIMGI?...
youtu.be/pr0lCgPIMGI?...
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Today on Okazu -
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
Yen Press brings us a terrific edition of Sumiko Arai's much-anticipated Yuri manga!
okazu.yuricon.com/2024/09/22/t...
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
Yen Press brings us a terrific edition of Sumiko Arai's much-anticipated Yuri manga!
okazu.yuricon.com/2024/09/22/t...
Okazu » The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
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September 23, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Today on Okazu -
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
Yen Press brings us a terrific edition of Sumiko Arai's much-anticipated Yuri manga!
okazu.yuricon.com/2024/09/22/t...
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
Yen Press brings us a terrific edition of Sumiko Arai's much-anticipated Yuri manga!
okazu.yuricon.com/2024/09/22/t...
This 80s-born Dad sees what you did here, author of InvestiGators...
August 13, 2024 at 1:37 AM
This 80s-born Dad sees what you did here, author of InvestiGators...
Someone read Skygrazer!
www.comicsbeat.com/beats-bizarr...
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Beat's Bizarre Adventure: Complex apartments
This week on Beat's Bizarre Adventure, an ensemble of writers covers GOKURAKUGAI, SKYGRAZER, and STAR WARS: THE EDGE OF BALANCE.
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August 6, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Someone read Skygrazer!
www.comicsbeat.com/beats-bizarr...
www.comicsbeat.com/beats-bizarr...
Catching sight of one of the characters duck walking is one of the many reasons I appreciate Craig of the Creek
July 9, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Catching sight of one of the characters duck walking is one of the many reasons I appreciate Craig of the Creek
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elder millennialhood is having a facebook profile wall with nothing but 14 years of happy birthday posts from people you haven't seen in over a decade
June 8, 2024 at 9:23 PM
elder millennialhood is having a facebook profile wall with nothing but 14 years of happy birthday posts from people you haven't seen in over a decade
Lots of good manga on here, including two I worked on: The Summer Hikaru Died and River's Edge (which I edited but for some odd reason has the proofreader listed as editor in the article)
New on @comicsbeat.bsky.social: The Best Manga of 2023 list, featuring 33 picks for best new manga, best continuing series and underrated gems from VIZ Media, TokyoPop, Yen Press, Seven Seas, D&Q and more!
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The Beat’s 33 Best Manga of 2023
Over the past few years, manga has gotten pretty darn popular – it’s now the #3 bestselling BOOK (not just graphic novels!) category in N. America. So it seems only right that this year, as The Be...
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December 20, 2023 at 4:19 AM
Lots of good manga on here, including two I worked on: The Summer Hikaru Died and River's Edge (which I edited but for some odd reason has the proofreader listed as editor in the article)
Just wanted something light for breakfast from the in-hotel bakery and nearly everything savory has ham in it. I almost forgot this was a thing here, but at least they label it, so no surprise ham for me.
August 27, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Just wanted something light for breakfast from the in-hotel bakery and nearly everything savory has ham in it. I almost forgot this was a thing here, but at least they label it, so no surprise ham for me.
About to take off for Japan for the first time in...9 years (?) See ya on the other side!
August 26, 2023 at 3:37 PM
About to take off for Japan for the first time in...9 years (?) See ya on the other side!