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@matteob.bsky.social
@catsuka.bsky.social
Worldwide animation news & picks, from mainstream to indies. Website (& more) since 2000, run by one guy. https://www.catsuka.com
@flaminghydra.com
A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem. $3/month https://flaminghydra.com
@letterboxd.social
🚂📚👀 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com 🇧🇷: @pt.letterboxd.social
@japantimes.co.jp
News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan. JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
@neglectedbooks.com
Brad Bigelow, writer and editor of neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path. Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press: www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
@labuzamovies.com
Researcher, IATSE Local 600. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily contributor) plabuza @ gmail. www.labuzamovies.com
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
@ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere. Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
@bobfreelander.bsky.social
Co-host of New Beverly’s Pure Cinema Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/4xbAl28Rnh9la3khRm09lv?si=hh0-clEcSXiDgea5mpDh5A Runs Just The Discs Podcast + YouTube channel Letterboxd adherent: https://letterboxd.com/rupertpupkin/
@lucasshaw.bsky.social
Oversee business of pop culture coverage at Bloomberg. Views my own. Write a newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/bdh7w838 Host a conference: https://shorturl.at/nuW1F Go Dodgers
@okazu.yuricon.com
Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Looking for opportunities. By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
@filipefurtado.bsky.social
Vejo muitos filmes e as vezes escrevo sobre eles também. https://anotacoescinefilo.com https://boxd.it/1nDt
@kpierce624.bsky.social
Film Critic @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social . Film History, MA. Co-Chair @denverfilmcritics.bsky.social. Member @oaffc.bsky.social. Storyteller and film fan. She/Her Host- Piercing Pop Culture (Everywhere You Get Podcasts!)
@rarefilmm.bsky.social
Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.
@jakecole.bsky.social
Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
@milestonefilms.bsky.social
Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
@aliciahaddick.com
(aka @socialanigirl)💛they/them🏳️🌈💛Scriptwriter/Journalist/Photographer in 🇯🇵💛Culture Writer @scrmbl.com💛Freelance @ Letterboxd💛Crunchyroll💛gamesindustry.biz💛Verge💛UploadVR💛etc💛宝塚🌹ももクロ💛Ado💙ENG/日本語 Portfolio: http://www.aliciahaddick.com
@swenryan.bsky.social
Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social member, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
@pulpcurry.bsky.social
“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author of fiction & non fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. https://linktr.ee/andrewnette
@newsfromnihon.bsky.social
Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
@chrisyogerst.com
Writer, professor, media historian. Columns at The Hollywood Reporter, Time, Washington Post, LARB Author: Hollywood Hates Hitler; The Warner Brothers. www.chrisyogerst.com chrisyogerst.substack.com
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@davekehr.bsky.social
Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own.
@mrjeffu.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social
Movie reviews, news and interviews since 2004. We particularly love the unusual and absurd – kung fu, giallo, Czech New Wave, etc. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/tVcR
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social
Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound
@misterminsoo.bsky.social
@tokyovice.bsky.social
Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
@nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻 http://nccjapan.org/
@animefeminist.com
Japanese pop culture & intersectional feminist analysis under one umbrella! Reviews, articles, podcasts, & more https://www.animefeminist.com/ https://linktr.ee/animefeminist
@www.johnbleasdale.com
Writer: The Magic Hours: the Life of Terrence Malick Words: Variety, Sight&Sound, The Times, The Financial Times and Host of Writers On Film: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LMnm5Gfb42qUV5qLdymMp?si=CC_zOz5ERTWFm_iij8ImAg
@kinekovideo.bsky.social
Professional fan-based community specializing in anime film scanning/video transfer. Want your film scanned or VHS/LD captured? DM us or find other ways to contact here! https://linktr.ee/kinekovideo Email (business inquiries only): kinekovideo@gmail.com
@thirdwindowfilms.com
One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema https://linktr.ee/thirdwindowfilms
@raquelstecher.bsky.social
Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Co-host of the #CineHistorians podcast. Passionate about world cinema. www.raquelstecher.com
@kennylauderdale.bsky.social
Japanese Cartoon Watcher https://www.youtube.com/@kennylauderdale_en?sub_confirmation=1
@tbaudinette.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
@suika.bsky.social
Researcher specialising in Japanese LGBTQ+ politics. I post about Japan, poetry, politics, LGBTQ topics, DnD & more. 🏳️⚧️ 研究者。短歌大好き。元早稲ギャル
@glider.bsky.social
Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer. All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
@matteob.bsky.social
By day: lumpenproletariat. By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications. Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: https://asian-docs.com/