Critic. Tabletop columnist at The AV Club and Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
First for video game news.
Patreon: patreon.com/VideoGamesChronicle | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VGC1981 | Podcast: lnk.to/VGC
Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | jschreier@gmail.com
Japanese art, design & culture
AUTOMATON（オートマトン）は、今話題のニュースやコミュニティ発のトピックを深掘りし、Veracity in Gaming、すなわち「ゲームと誠実に向き合い、正しく伝えること」をコンセプトとするゲーム情報サイトです。
https://automaton-media.com/
fmr. community at Double Fine Productions | ex journalist (kotaku) | blue rogue | they/she | I write freelance stuff sometimes now
Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
she/her • 25 • cartoon enjoyer
🔞 Digital media expert & UX designer/developer @ JP-EN media localization
Talks #lightnovels / #anime / #manga / #games / #translation | pro-fiction | Finnish 🇫🇮 but posting primarily in English | opinions firmly my own | he/they
Website ★ daiz.moe ★
Hosted by @percivalconstantine.com, Japan On Film is a podcast devoted to Japanese cinema! Member of @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social. Promo DMs = block/report. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and guest info at: japanonfilm.com
Researcher in Japanese cinema and queer cinema. Associate professor of film studies at Kanazawa University. Currently working on projects on food, loss and grief, aging, affect, gay porn, and queer archives.
Works: https://researchmap.jp/y_kubo315
In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/.
マンガ・アニメのニュースを毎日発信するコミックナタリーの記事ヘッドラインをお届け。
音楽ナタリー（ @music.natalie.mu ）、お笑いナタリー（ @owarai.natalie.mu ）、映画ナタリー（ @eiga.natalie.mu ）、ステージナタリー（ @stage.natalie.mu ）もどうぞ。
Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
July 2026: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
The jianghu is treacherous. Proceed with caution, young hero.🍃
twitch.tv/obeithion
Enjoyer of anime, music, and more. Progressive that believes in restorative justice and broadly in favor of peace. Pronouns: He/Him
She/her | Online store: meyocostudio.com | STORE INQUIRY: info@meyoco.art
"warrenisdead". he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. writer and narrative designer. Project C for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Conferences/journal on Asian popular cultures since 2001.
https://linktr.ee/mechademia.net
An occasional YouTuber that enjoys talking about video game history, Japanese adventure games, and Falcom stuff. I was also a lead editor on the Sakura Wars 1 and 2 fan patches.
https://www.youtube.com/@bowloflentils
映画・ドラマのニュースを毎日発信する映画ナタリー記事ヘッドラインをお届け。
音楽ナタリー（ @music.natalie.mu ）、コミックナタリー（ @comic.natalie.mu ）、お笑いナタリー（ @owarai.natalie.mu ）、ステージナタリー（ @stage.natalie.mu ）もどうぞ。
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
🇦🇺🏳️⚧️ She/Her Graduate Researcher based at the University of Tasmania exploring Transgender identity in Gender-Bending Anime/Manga
アイケ・エクスナ
Striphistoricus writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium.
eikeexner.com/books
- Comics and the Origins of Manga
(Rutgers UP, 2021)
- Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
(Yale UP, 2025)
PhD student in the UK, researching gender, trauma and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful. Kind is Cool.
EN/ES/日本語 OK
Sociologist/ History of nonbinary identity categories in Japan/ Asst. Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University/ https://researchmap.jp/take_kyo
Anthropology Ph.D. | Postdoc & Lecturer at Princeton University | Studies Black gaming communities| Gamer | Has probably seen all of your favorite anime
postdoc IANF at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Citrus Con is a virtual 18+ con for BL/queer media, shipping, and fanworks. Our event is anti-harassment and open to lovers of any content. COMING 2027/02/26 🍋 https://www.citruscon.com
Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Developmental editor & workshop facilitator for scholarly writers. PhD in Japanese lit. She/her. Based in Minneapolis. www.tiliaeditorial.com
25 | she/her | nsfw rts beware
Japanese media scholar @ Notre Dame; author of Alice in Japanese Wonderlands; working on pop media + environment - zoos, anime, collaborations, Godzilla, nuclear stuff, smart phone games, etc.
日本語OK
https://eastasian.nd.edu/faculty-staff/amanda-kennell/
Black, queer, and autistic sunflower. 27, any pronouns. Minors DNI. Follower of Jesus & socialist. Animation & film enthusiast. Writer for magicalstage.moe. Avatar by @castussan.bsky.social. Watch Ojamajo Doremi! 💙
💜 @arimias.bsky.social 💜
Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Worked as a production department intern from Jan- March 2025 @butapro.bsky.social.
THE FUTURE IS UNDERGROUND
We made VA-11 Hall-A
NEXT: .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND
The leading presenter of Japanese cinema for more than 50 years | Classics & premieres @japansociety.org in NYC. Organizers of #JAPANCUTS since 2007: japansociety.org/film
Tokyo Based Film Producer
映画プロデューサー(東京)
Cofounder of Loaded Films (loadedfilms.jp)
🎞️ RENOIR (Cannes 2025 Official Competition)
🎞️ PLAN 75 (Cannes 2022 Camera d’Or Special Distinction / Japan's Oscar entry)
🎞️ http://imdb.com/name/nm1807406
Japanese Cartoon Watcher
🌏 https://kennylauderdale.neocities.org/
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@kennylauderdale_en
💸 https://www.patreon.com/kennylauderdale
I ENJOY OSHI KATSU LIFE!!!♡♡♡でんぱ組⚡(永遠夢眠ねむ • 空野青空 • ぺろりん先生)♡ さよステ (桃ノ井理子)♡ のいちご ♡虹コン (あお)♡ エンゲージング💍(あまね)♡ 主にディアステ♪ (kind of metal gear brainrotted)
Washington Post games critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
video essayist https://youtube.com/@lowercasejai | they/them | https://www.patreon.com/lowercasejai
Modern Korean literature & visual culture, Rutgers University, jwechung.com
Independent Korean music blog. Helping you discover new Korean artists and bands from around the world.
Koreanindie.com | http://spoti.fi/30le | 📷 @Koreanindie
👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
she/her - they/them | Starcraft and Anime | Nowadays mostly Mahjong, V-tubers and Japanese Studies
Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Scientist. Film enthusiast. Writer. Reviewer. Fascinated with classic SF. Former contributor of http://vcinemashow.com and http://sffreviews.com. Co-host of the Heroic Purgatory podcast: @heroicpurgatory.bsky.social
30 🇬🇧/🇫🇮/🇯🇵 Im a mildly deranged mess that studies Japanese, plays gacha and draws. Bad influence. 18+ please.
Map game enthusiast | Elf-friend | History/Linguistics/Politics | 31 | He
software engineer ; hobby illustrator
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies.
「世界有数のニュージーランド出身日本映画翻訳家」
代表作：『君たちはどう生きるか』『七人の侍』『東京物語』他多数
"One of the world’s foremost New Zealanders who translate Japanese movies"
Supplier of English subtitles for "The Boy and the Heron," "Seven Samurai," "Tokyo Story," and whatnot
donbrown.jp
Teacher by day, Otaku by night, and cohost of Japanimation Station and Purely Academic with Jonathan Lack!
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Correspondent for Reuters based in Barcelona. Previously in Seoul.
Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
Misty, lonely chaser! Account is ran by darkcart and TougeWolf
Subbing weird old crap nobody else would have the patience for since 2019!
Not taking requests!
Book author, magazine editor, art director. Ex-Netflix & Crunchyroll. Repped by Hill Nadell Literary Agency. Lives in Tokyo. 作家・編集者・アートディレクター。 東京に住んでいます。
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Portland State University School of Film, PhD - Japanese Film - ポートランド州立大学、映画学部、邦画、映画産業
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.com
Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
Official Bluesky for the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies - JAMS
go.iu.edu/anime
Posts by @BillyTringali
Educator. Scholar of comics, media, and popular culture. First-generation academic. Writing about transmedia storytelling and K-pop storyworlds. Dazzler aficionado. Dorothy-coded. Billlie + KiiiKiii on repeat.
Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
Japanese to English literary translator, occasional actor, film and theatre fan, proud 浜っ子
ABD, Princeton, East Asian Studies. Instructor, Asian History, Rider University. Perpetually writing my dissertation (warfare in 16th C. Kyushu, Japan). He/Him/あいつ/"That Nagashino Guy." At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Daoguang [道光] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
東京大学百合愛好会の公式アカウントです。日々の活動や話題の百合作品についてのあれこれを気ままに呟きます。
https://utokyo-yuri.com/
https://note.com/utokyo_yuri
https://x.com/UTokyo_yuri/
凡なる脳味噌から日々言葉を絞り出す脚本担当。
日常ポストは基本ポンコツ。
ネットメディア等、他媒体へのポストの無断転載は使用料100万円もらいますね。もらったら寄付しますね。よろしくね。
screenwriter,JAPAN
Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Bay Area. Preorder MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 now!
日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area.
linktr.ee/ahorbinski
Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).
News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.
www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
Anime research at the intersection of Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies | steviesuan.com
Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Assistant professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの助教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
🇭🇰🇹🇼Taiwanese American queer feminist scholar in HK (they/she)✨👭🏻 Transnational Asian feminisms & queer politics, Japanese literature, girls’ culture, manga, cute culture, care, crip/disability studies
Mostly English (中文: Threads)
Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
ジェームズ・ウェルカー（he/him）
I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています
More:
https://linktr.ee/james.welker
PhD student. Film & anime studies, audiences, media history.
Animation critic & historian, translator
フリーアニメライター•研究者、翻訳家、博士課程1年
FR/EN/日本語
The Japan you don't learn about in anime. News and social issues from Japan. Visiting Japan soon? Check out our tours service!
https://unseenjapan.start.page/
Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
Japanese media studies, digital studies, and STS. Author, ‘The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan’ (UMich, 2023) http://press.umich.edu/12233973. Motivational speaker on dystopias and the end of days. Opinions my own
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema
https://linktr.ee/thirdwindowfilms
