Baxter
@cosmicspooks.bsky.social
he/him
writes about and translates Japanese art at: https://www.tsundokudiving.com/
sometimes freelances too
writes about and translates Japanese art at: https://www.tsundokudiving.com/
sometimes freelances too
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Baxter
@cosmicspooks.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Tsundoku Diving
Dedicated to discussing Japanese media of all kinds and the ways they impact us and the world.
www.tsundokudiving.com
Hey! I'm Baxter and I've got a blog called Tsundoku Diving that's my little heaven for fans of Japanese media.
There's deep dive essays, subs for obscure films, scanlations of alt manga, an archive of movie pamphlets, 150+ hand picked recs, and even some of my own fiction!
Jump in & swim around :)
There's deep dive essays, subs for obscure films, scanlations of alt manga, an archive of movie pamphlets, 150+ hand picked recs, and even some of my own fiction!
Jump in & swim around :)
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New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
In Translation | "You Dropped Your Shadow" by Masako Yashiro
Yashiro? more like Yass, She Hero (i respect women you see)
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
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Customer Service is Booming: Manga Service Manual for Game Centre Managers has been scanned by @thestacks.ca in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/c...
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Customer Service is Booming: Manga Service Manual for Game Centre Managers has been scanned by @thestacks.ca in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/c...
New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
In Translation | "You Dropped Your Shadow" by Masako Yashiro
Yashiro? more like Yass, She Hero (i respect women you see)
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New translation!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
From Masako Yashiro, a major name in shoujo and influence on Year 24 members, comes a startling, complex fairy tale turned existential nightmare ripped straight from a 1969 issue of COM...
Enjoy the masterful one-shot "You Dropped Your Shadow" here!!
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Watched it back when it first dropped and I can confirm it's goooood.
Baxter never misses.
Baxter never misses.
oh no i've abandoned god's light and become a video essayist
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Moving Through Myst
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Watched it back when it first dropped and I can confirm it's goooood.
Baxter never misses.
Baxter never misses.
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An update on current and upcoming English translation of Uketsu books.
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
Strange Translations
I seem to have become known as "Uketsu's English translator," which is certainly not a bad thing to be. But it does mean I get quite a lot of questions about the works, some of which I can't even answer. Like, no, I don't know how Uketsu got his ideas. No, I haven't seen under his mask.
jimrion.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
An update on current and upcoming English translation of Uketsu books.
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
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Hey everyone! I've put a new composition reel together in hopes of better displaying a range of things I have done/can do with music for video games. I'm always open to new projects, so please feel free to contact me if you're interested in working together! ^_^
🌐 satellitesound.net
🌐 elmore.design
🌐 satellitesound.net
🌐 elmore.design
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hey everyone! I've put a new composition reel together in hopes of better displaying a range of things I have done/can do with music for video games. I'm always open to new projects, so please feel free to contact me if you're interested in working together! ^_^
🌐 satellitesound.net
🌐 elmore.design
🌐 satellitesound.net
🌐 elmore.design
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watch this rignt now
oh no i've abandoned god's light and become a video essayist
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Moving Through Myst
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
watch this rignt now
If you haven't watched the viddy essay I made this year consider: what if you did? Do it as a lil present for your pal Baxy
oh no i've abandoned god's light and become a video essayist
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Check out my new vid about dreams and memories and why Myst has the best movement in games
youtu.be/DguUtJzmn0M
Moving Through Myst
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you haven't watched the viddy essay I made this year consider: what if you did? Do it as a lil present for your pal Baxy
I feel like people tend to falsely equate good pacing with quick or propulsive, but also I literally would stare at walls for fun as a kid so I'm probably the wrong person to listen to here
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I feel like people tend to falsely equate good pacing with quick or propulsive, but also I literally would stare at walls for fun as a kid so I'm probably the wrong person to listen to here
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R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551
俳優・仲代達矢さん死去 92歳 - Yahoo!ニュース
映画「人間の条件」や黒沢明監督の「影武者」などに主演し、主宰する「無名塾」で後進を育てた俳優で文化勲章受章者の仲代達矢（なかだい・たつや、本名元久＝もとひさ）さんが死去したことが11日、分かった。9
news.yahoo.co.jp
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
R.I.P. Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the giant figures in history of Japanese cinema news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6558551
Five Star Stories is the most SaGa coded manga ever made. I can't explain this but my soul knows it to be true
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Five Star Stories is the most SaGa coded manga ever made. I can't explain this but my soul knows it to be true
whew thanks Amazon Classics, if it weren't for you I would've thought Henry David Thoreau was a real person
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
whew thanks Amazon Classics, if it weren't for you I would've thought Henry David Thoreau was a real person
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in today's rabbit hole i got to the part in Tatsumi's A Drifting Life where Shadow is published and stopped to read the thing itself lol. i knew i had seen that cover somewhere!!
New translation!
It’s the finale of my translations of the crime stories of proto-gekiga publication, Kage, and we’re ending with a bang — a clever, deeply cinematic thriller from the man behind A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Enjoy “I Saw!” here!
It’s the finale of my translations of the crime stories of proto-gekiga publication, Kage, and we’re ending with a bang — a clever, deeply cinematic thriller from the man behind A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Enjoy “I Saw!” here!
In Translation | "I Saw!" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
A twisty crime story from the father of gekiga
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
in today's rabbit hole i got to the part in Tatsumi's A Drifting Life where Shadow is published and stopped to read the thing itself lol. i knew i had seen that cover somewhere!!
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New post! (kind of)
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In Translation | Little Tama's an Angel by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko
The obscure newspaper debut from the duo that would bring the world Doraemon.
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
New post! (kind of)
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
love this nightmare series of panels from Thing I'm Scanlating rn
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
love this nightmare series of panels from Thing I'm Scanlating rn
New post! (kind of)
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In Translation | Little Tama's an Angel by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko
The obscure newspaper debut from the duo that would bring the world Doraemon.
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
New post! (kind of)
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!
Enjoy!
god decided to smile down and give me a little smooch on the nose, and now I get to see Gothicmade at the end of the month
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
god decided to smile down and give me a little smooch on the nose, and now I get to see Gothicmade at the end of the month
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it is imperative for the soul to have at least a couple dumb takes and taste in art
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
it is imperative for the soul to have at least a couple dumb takes and taste in art
oh look there I am! go read me yap about ridge racer
...but only if you check everyone else out too (the Dia Lacina article about Gabriel Knight 3 rules, me and my friends have been talking about it all week)
...but only if you check everyone else out too (the Dia Lacina article about Gabriel Knight 3 rules, me and my friends have been talking about it all week)
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
oh look there I am! go read me yap about ridge racer
...but only if you check everyone else out too (the Dia Lacina article about Gabriel Knight 3 rules, me and my friends have been talking about it all week)
...but only if you check everyone else out too (the Dia Lacina article about Gabriel Knight 3 rules, me and my friends have been talking about it all week)
need everybody to know that Baby Assassins Everyday is one of the best tv shows of the decade and it feels like it kind of effortlessly reaches that level
SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days
SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days
November 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
need everybody to know that Baby Assassins Everyday is one of the best tv shows of the decade and it feels like it kind of effortlessly reaches that level
SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days
SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days
just some cool art submitted by readers to the November 1970 issue of COM (names of artist for each included in alt text)
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
just some cool art submitted by readers to the November 1970 issue of COM (names of artist for each included in alt text)
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THIS WEEK ON ANIWIRE...
I wrote about director Teruyoshi Ishii and writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1988 horror film Psychic Vision: Jaganrei. Happy Halloween!
I wrote about director Teruyoshi Ishii and writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1988 horror film Psychic Vision: Jaganrei. Happy Halloween!
Let's All Be Ghosts: Jaganrei
"Haven't you had enough?" she cries. "You have no right to do things like this!"
aniwire.ghost.io
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
THIS WEEK ON ANIWIRE...
I wrote about director Teruyoshi Ishii and writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1988 horror film Psychic Vision: Jaganrei. Happy Halloween!
I wrote about director Teruyoshi Ishii and writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1988 horror film Psychic Vision: Jaganrei. Happy Halloween!