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Jeff Lester, Party Person @jefflester.bsky.social

You probably already know, but Kodansha's doing a big push for Young Mangazine's anniversary, and released a free 1,000 page issue of translated manga. You can find print copies at www.kinokuniya.com, but digital downloads are at www.azuki.co/series/young... and global.bookwalker.jp/deaa10f895-6...

sep 2, 2025, 12:18 am • 4 1

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social

Sometimes mailing me a copy, which I'm excited about. Wish it had wider distribution.

sep 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Jeff Lester, Party Person @jefflester.bsky.social

Me too, but I’m sure this was more than insane enough to put together as it is.

sep 2, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social

So which five are you voting for?

sep 3, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeff Lester, Party Person @jefflester.bsky.social

Dunno—I’m only 150 pages in! Do you know?

sep 3, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social

I've only read the first one so far! It's massive! It's kind of wild to think that this one thing has more pages of comics in it than (probably) every free comic book day comic this year combined.

sep 3, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jeff Lester, Party Person @jefflester.bsky.social

Ha, it really is! And on the one hand, bringing all this to English readers for free must've cost a very pretty penny...and on the other, this is probably just an above-averge Wednesday issue in Japan and that still blows my mind...

sep 3, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social

I bought a couple of Japanese-language issues of manga anthologies earlier this year when I got to visit a Kinokuniya, and even with the import prices they were ludicrously cheap. Like, I do wonder how many of these they actually printed.

sep 3, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social

"Someone is mailing me" good job brain.

sep 2, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view