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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HELL YEAH A DOOZY
No book club this week because every single issue we read was outstanding!
Buckle up for an hour of great comics!
No book club this week because every single issue we read was outstanding!
Buckle up for an hour of great comics!
Absolute Batman #14, DC K.O #2, and Infernal Hulk #1!
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December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
HELL YEAH A DOOZY
No book club this week because every single issue we read was outstanding!
Buckle up for an hour of great comics!
No book club this week because every single issue we read was outstanding!
Buckle up for an hour of great comics!
"...something borrowed and something blue," I say winking as I drape an unspooled VHS of Jarman's Blue I stole from the library over my partner at our wedding
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"...something borrowed and something blue," I say winking as I drape an unspooled VHS of Jarman's Blue I stole from the library over my partner at our wedding
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give baxter money or i will eat you (not in a sexy way, ill literally kill you and eat you)
Don't advertise the ko-fi much bc money is evil, etc, but tis the season!
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
Support Baxter on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/baxters
Support Baxter On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
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November 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
give baxter money or i will eat you (not in a sexy way, ill literally kill you and eat you)
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Don't advertise the ko-fi much bc money is evil, etc, but tis the season!
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
Support Baxter on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/baxters
Support Baxter On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
ko-fi.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Don't advertise the ko-fi much bc money is evil, etc, but tis the season!
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
If you got a spare cent, anything will go to the dumb internet stuff I need to pay to keep my blog running in 2025
ko-fi.com/baxters
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The outline of a corpse, a rotting city, a truth hidden below the earth, a crime that keeps happening.
Join me in exploring Yuji Horii's metaphysical, purgatorial masterpiece, The Portopia Serial Murders!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
Join me in exploring Yuji Horii's metaphysical, purgatorial masterpiece, The Portopia Serial Murders!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
Talking games | The Portopia Serial Murder Case
Purgatory made digital.
www.tsundokudiving.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The outline of a corpse, a rotting city, a truth hidden below the earth, a crime that keeps happening.
Join me in exploring Yuji Horii's metaphysical, purgatorial masterpiece, The Portopia Serial Murders!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
Join me in exploring Yuji Horii's metaphysical, purgatorial masterpiece, The Portopia Serial Murders!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
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happy birthday portopia for the famicom specifically
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
happy birthday portopia for the famicom specifically
i need to get less talented friends, i'm trying to feed my sense of superiority here stop being so good at things folks
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i need to get less talented friends, i'm trying to feed my sense of superiority here stop being so good at things folks
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In gaming land I write a free newsletter about emulation!
I could plug many other newsletters I love, but to shout out just one: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social's Tsundoku Diving is a fantastic dive into Japanese games/movies/art and he even subs movies everyone should watch. www.tsundokudiving.com
I could plug many other newsletters I love, but to shout out just one: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social's Tsundoku Diving is a fantastic dive into Japanese games/movies/art and he even subs movies everyone should watch. www.tsundokudiving.com
Read Only Memo
Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.
readonlymemo.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In gaming land I write a free newsletter about emulation!
I could plug many other newsletters I love, but to shout out just one: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social's Tsundoku Diving is a fantastic dive into Japanese games/movies/art and he even subs movies everyone should watch. www.tsundokudiving.com
I could plug many other newsletters I love, but to shout out just one: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social's Tsundoku Diving is a fantastic dive into Japanese games/movies/art and he even subs movies everyone should watch. www.tsundokudiving.com
shounen battle manga is just proust but replace the madeleine with getting energy blasted
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
shounen battle manga is just proust but replace the madeleine with getting energy blasted
no new post this week because I'm busy!!!
So instead read this short story if you haven't! It only takes a couple minutes and it has some seasonal thanksgiving energy, I think
So instead read this short story if you haven't! It only takes a couple minutes and it has some seasonal thanksgiving energy, I think
Fiction | Tripping Backwards into Heaven
"Mom used to say all our furniture had soul..."
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no new post this week because I'm busy!!!
So instead read this short story if you haven't! It only takes a couple minutes and it has some seasonal thanksgiving energy, I think
So instead read this short story if you haven't! It only takes a couple minutes and it has some seasonal thanksgiving energy, I think
Hopefully Gothicmade posting will be up next week btw! Had other writing I had to focus on doing this week BUT still managed to get a good 2k of solid Nagano yapping down
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hopefully Gothicmade posting will be up next week btw! Had other writing I had to focus on doing this week BUT still managed to get a good 2k of solid Nagano yapping down
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Thanksgiving tables in WOKE America this year:
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thanksgiving tables in WOKE America this year:
Mom: this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for this family.
Dad: I'm thankful for our health.
Sister: I'm thankful for being able to spend time together
They all turn to look at me. I'm covered in sweat. I try to read the smudged writing on my palm: I'm thankful for...uh...the PS2 game unbimleted saaga
Dad: I'm thankful for our health.
Sister: I'm thankful for being able to spend time together
They all turn to look at me. I'm covered in sweat. I try to read the smudged writing on my palm: I'm thankful for...uh...the PS2 game unbimleted saaga
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mom: this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for this family.
Dad: I'm thankful for our health.
Sister: I'm thankful for being able to spend time together
They all turn to look at me. I'm covered in sweat. I try to read the smudged writing on my palm: I'm thankful for...uh...the PS2 game unbimleted saaga
Dad: I'm thankful for our health.
Sister: I'm thankful for being able to spend time together
They all turn to look at me. I'm covered in sweat. I try to read the smudged writing on my palm: I'm thankful for...uh...the PS2 game unbimleted saaga
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Right on.
A full English translation patch for Koei's Progenitor, a 1994 visual novel/RPG/strategy game for the PC98 that plays a little like Uncharted Waters....IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
A full English translation patch for Koei's Progenitor, a 1994 visual novel/RPG/strategy game for the PC98 that plays a little like Uncharted Waters....IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Right on.
A full English translation patch for Koei's Progenitor, a 1994 visual novel/RPG/strategy game for the PC98 that plays a little like Uncharted Waters....IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
A full English translation patch for Koei's Progenitor, a 1994 visual novel/RPG/strategy game for the PC98 that plays a little like Uncharted Waters....IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
It's been decided....hotly anticipated heart surgery dropping in 2026 lfggggg
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
It's been decided....hotly anticipated heart surgery dropping in 2026 lfggggg
first chapter of En-chanchi, a manga self-published last year that Torch have picked up for a bigger release, is a trip and a half
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
first chapter of En-chanchi, a manga self-published last year that Torch have picked up for a bigger release, is a trip and a half
Today by pure chance I got to hold a personal drawing Toriyama did of Arale in 1979...a year before Dr Slump started
What touching a holy relic must feel like
What touching a holy relic must feel like
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Today by pure chance I got to hold a personal drawing Toriyama did of Arale in 1979...a year before Dr Slump started
What touching a holy relic must feel like
What touching a holy relic must feel like
Because it deserves it I've rescanlated one of the best manga I've shared to date to put it more in line with my current standards!
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
In Translation | "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro
An interior manga from an influential master.
www.tsundokudiving.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Because it deserves it I've rescanlated one of the best manga I've shared to date to put it more in line with my current standards!
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
If you haven't read the whirlpool of gender, art, and anxiety that is "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro yet...do so NOW. or i'll cry
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my first album is live! if you've been enjoying the stuff i post in #marigomodular and ever wanted to listen to something longer from me here you go! marigocchi.bandcamp.com/album/glassw...
glassworm, by Marigold Merrygoround
9 track album
marigocchi.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
my first album is live! if you've been enjoying the stuff i post in #marigomodular and ever wanted to listen to something longer from me here you go! marigocchi.bandcamp.com/album/glassw...
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Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is not Dragon Quest I or Dragon Quest II, but it is a a classic song of hope for our modern, hopeless times. In one of my deepest dives yet, I unpack how these games have changed, and how the meaning of Dragon Quest has evolved for me through these remakes. #blutoid
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Has Forever Changed How I Look At The Legendary RPG Series:
Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D Remake Changed How I Look At The Series
This remake is a new RPG purposefully masquerading as a pair of 40-year-old games
kotaku.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is not Dragon Quest I or Dragon Quest II, but it is a a classic song of hope for our modern, hopeless times. In one of my deepest dives yet, I unpack how these games have changed, and how the meaning of Dragon Quest has evolved for me through these remakes. #blutoid
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Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
Bog Frog Book Podcast: Episode 37: The Man In The High Castle Part 1
The Bog Boys find themselves in some sort of alternate history where the Axis won WW2 and let me tell ya, Big Bummer! How will those rascals make it out of this? The answers may lie deep within the li...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Did y'all know that Phillip K Dick guy could fucking write?? Listen in to the new bog frog where we learn that as well as, did you know the transformers comics rule, did you know that Silver Spoon rules, and did you know Tsui no Sora rules?? It's all true! sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...
Enjoy the slop suffix, funny and good mouthfeel, but unfortunately people online can't be trusted to use it, so like a toy in preschool, gonna have to take it away, it's ruined for everyone sorry no more slop
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Enjoy the slop suffix, funny and good mouthfeel, but unfortunately people online can't be trusted to use it, so like a toy in preschool, gonna have to take it away, it's ruined for everyone sorry no more slop
I have now seen Gothicmade
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I have now seen Gothicmade
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thinkin' about Half-Life today? why not watch my video about some of the coolest surreal art ever made for it! some (me) are calling it 2025's best youtube video, woah! youtu.be/M8Dr2CxUeME
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
thinkin' about Half-Life today? why not watch my video about some of the coolest surreal art ever made for it! some (me) are calling it 2025's best youtube video, woah! youtu.be/M8Dr2CxUeME
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Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...