Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
readjumpscares.com
darkertimes.com
Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social Books. Comic books. YA/middlegrade books. Film/TV. Podcasts. You can visit me at www.claymcleodchapman.com
Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. Bram Stoker Winner, WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Rich Bowen @rbowen.bsky.social Open source zealot. Maker of knives. Thrower of darts. 
Gibson's Bookstore @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social Concord, NH. Indie Bookstore. Est. 1898.
www.gibsonsbookstore.com
Singfisher Games (Daily Akari) @singfisher.com Game Dev based in Toronto, Canada 🍁
Maker of Daily Akari with @juliahenderson.bsky.social
🧩Playable at http://dailyakari.com !🧩
https://ko-fi.com/singfisher
Celia @celia-14.bsky.social 💜 Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
✨ Making a narrative daily puzzle: https://the-daily-spell.com
🔎 Big fan of thinky, story-focused, and cute games
🏷️ She/her
Puzzmo @puzzmo.com puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
Doug Faust @phrim.bsky.social Board gamer from PA
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social Buddhist wisdom for your daily life 🙏
TangoBunny @tangopunk.com https://bsky.app/profile/tangopunk.com
Author of TangoPunk Gaming Zine - https://www.patreon.com/TangoPunk
( Verification link at https://www.patreon.com/tangopunk/about )
🔞 - I cover video games of all genres, including adult ones.
Farnes @farnes.bsky.social Fandom old. Asian drama and bl fan ( #cdrama #cbl #kdrama #kbl #jdrama #jbl #twbl #thaibl #eydc2025)
Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach #evolution to preschoolers, plus science games for kids (www.grandmotherfish.com). Over the Edge, #TTRPG of surreal urban danger (atlas-games.com/overtheedge). D&D 3E, Ars Magica, Everway, etc.
@brian-misiaszek.bsky.social @brian-misiaszek.bsky.social 
Joshua Kronengold @mnemex.bsky.social Joshua Kronengold; software developer, sf fan/conrunner, game designer, musician, filker, harper, fiddler
Crossed Paths @crossedpaths.co.uk A UK-based independent publisher of TTRPGs, focused on rich storytelling and strong community engagement.
links.crossedpaths.co.uk
Dropout @dropout.tv a comedy streamer with all of your favorite shows
🧔♂️ Game Changer
📢 Make Some Noise
🎲 Dimension 20
🫂 Very Important People
🐷 Smartypants
dropout.tv
Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social Canadian creator of cinema sewer, graphic thrills, sleazy slice, and gutter hunter zines. Proud papa of two tuxedo kitties 😻😻 and anti-AI. My store: cinemasewer.storenvy.com
Red Letter Media @redlettermedia.com Milwaukee, WI based humor related and entertainment adjacent content creators. The world's only unfluencers.
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social 
Adam “TurboLib” Sessler 🇺🇦 @adamsessler.bsky.social Refugee from cable television, video games and AI. Currently a dispossessed Jew who should be working on his memoir.
Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com
organizing with @indivisibleatl.bsky.social | co-editor for JLit @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social | MSt English lit, 650-1550 | queer (historical/SFF) romance reader | ATL | genderqueer (all pronouns)
Michael Fiegel @ninjaburger.bsky.social Writer. Game Designer. Community Manager. Ninja.
Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social ScholComm librarian, board gamer, birder, lurker. She/her
Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.
Anoma van der Veere @anomav.bsky.social Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Christopher P. Hood @hoodcp.bsky.social フッド・クリス
http://linktr.ee/hoodcp
Author of novels and non-fiction books on symbols in Japan, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, and books related to Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
Eleanor Yamaguchi @eleanoralbertine.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University specializing in UK-Japan cultural and historical relations.
Also a dot artist in the little spare time available!
Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social Avid film watcher. Obsessed with 1970s Hollywood, and the Japanese New Wave. Enjoys feel-bad art across genres and mediums. ESL teacher in Asia for nine years. Writing a novel about life and film in Taipei. Leftist, interested in democracy preservation.
Francesca Pizarro @francescapizarro.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japan Studies at Colorado College. 
Raditya Nuradi. @radityanuradi.bsky.social Ph.D. in Japanese Religions. Scholar of Japan, Religion, and Popular Culture. Project Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History. 特任助教. 歴博.
Jane Traynor @jktraynor.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Research focus on kyōgen and transmission of and developments in the traditional theatre arts.
Dr. Matt Loten @intheinaka.bsky.social Japanese Political Communication PhD | Working in Linguistic Validation by day; posting about politics on the internet by night
Tanya Barnett @tanyanb.bsky.social 📝: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa・🏫: UTokyo
東京・scholar of adventure narratives in early 20th c. Japanese poetry/prose・近代日本文学/大衆文化史の冒険家・corgi dog mom
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social since 2017 🤯
Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
Christopher Hepburn @chrishepburn.bsky.social Pale and awkward PhD ethnomusicologist.
Postdoc & Teaching Fellowship completed @USC (History).
Author of Defining Waka Musically (Palgrave).
Steadfast polemicist, all in good fun.
Views my own.
Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/
한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
Kelly Chan @kafkaesquekelly.bsky.social MA @ McGill East Asian Studies. BA @ UBC History. Interested in modern Japanese tourism, film and media studies, and post-WWII Japanese horror cinema.
Eve Loh Kazuhara @elkazu.bsky.social ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate 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准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Nippon Connection Film Festival @nipponconnection.com Nippon Connection – June 8 - June 13, 2027 // 27th Nippon Connection Film Festival // Frankfurt am Main, Germany // http://tinyurl.com/nc-impressum
Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social The Asian Cinema
Im Kino 📽️
Patrick Terry @patrickterry.bsky.social 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
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
Moeko Fujii @moekofujii.bsky.social critic and essayist, I write a column on film for @orionmagazine. 
Benjamin Uchiyama @buchiyama.bsky.social Modern Japan historian. Ex-Aggie/RSEA alum/Jayhawk. Once and future Trojan. Recovering ramen addict. I also wrote a book! https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316899823
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts. 
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.- M Meg Rose @meganrose.bsky.social
Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Literary translator from Japanese
Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
Bianca Chui @bmychui.bsky.social 📚 MA grad @ UBC Asian Studies. BA History. 💕 bad jokes + dim sum 🫖 🎲 research on sugoroku/print culture/travel/food/games/meibutsu/kuzushiji 🎲
Pierre-Emmanuel Bachelet @bacheletpe.bsky.social Assistant Prof. (MCF) in East/Southeast Asian History, ENS de Lyon/Institut d'Asie Orientale. Cross cultural relations, maritime circulations, Japan and Vietnam.
Steve Forrest @sforrest.bsky.social Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social 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。
Rebecca @stlrebecca.bsky.social 💙 Writer, runner, resister, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
Elisabeth Scherer @elisabethscherer.bsky.social Researching popular media, rituals and Japan / E-learning & #OER @hhu.de /comic studies network http://icon.hhu.de /Frrrrränkin/ Japanese Studies Avenger/hanami addict 🌸
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social 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/. 
yutaka kubo @yutakakubo.bsky.social 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
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
T. Seifman @toranosukev.bsky.social Historian of Japanese & Luchuan (Ryukyuan) arts and culture. Person. Personal, not professional, account. I travel from time to time.
They/he. Based in Kyoto.
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Japan Chair, CSIS
economics x security x governance in the Indo-Pacific and beyond
all views my own | RT ≠ endorsement
www.kristigovella.com
Ioannis Gaitanidis @igaitanidis.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Tohoku University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025)
https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis?lang=en
Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social 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
Jingyi Li @becedo.bsky.social Assistant professor at Occidental College. Cultural historian of 19th ce Japan. Podcaster on New Books Network. I read kuzushiji and crochet. 日本語ペラペラ
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Emily Anderson @imorianderson.bsky.social Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social Editor of academic books by trade. Hobbyist gamemaker. Lapsed Gundam scholar. Cat and Bird enjoyer. Watches Tora-san films. My views are my own and do not represent my employer or my god.
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
matteoB @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/
David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social Science Fiction, Empire, Japan