• So here’s something I’ve been excited about lately but I haven’t been able to share. I’ve been exchanging emails with a husband-wife team trying to launch a fandom-inspired jigsaw puzzle business about how they should go about contacting creators for permission. That permission has started rolling in and they’re getting some gorgeous puzzle art, including the image above!

• The best possible compliment you can get as a blogger is when somebody writes a post inspired by one of yours. This happened to me twice last week! Serdar wrote about his own seven questions for anime reviews, and Tony wrote about revisiting the manga classics.

• A bunch of the sports anime I like, including Free!, Yowamushi Pedal, and Haikyu! (what is it with exclamation points in sports titles?) are getting their own movies. The first two appear to be all-new material. I liked the Utena movie and the Cowboy Bebop movie, but it’s been a long time since I’ve heard about a really impressive anime movie, so these could be hit or miss.

• Kotaku did a roundup of some of the funniest ‘shops from @AniHistory, a Twitter that rewrites the past to include references from anime. I wasn’t following this account before, but I am now! (HT @JAsanmateo.)

• I wasn’t going to share this sad, strange comic that Jay shared with me, but I can’t get it out of my mind. Called “My Mama’s A Weeaboo,” it’s a dark comedy about a preteen girl and her anime-obsessed mother. As it progresses, it becomes less about humor and more about life with an abusive parent.

• I skipped Otaku Links last week, but I’m still just linking my three most latest reviews since all three shows were generally better this week. Kuroko’s Basketball was about the psychological effect of winning, Yowamushi Pedal just barely grazed the finish line, and GBFT featured a six-way robot brawl.

Sorry this is short again. You know, that book and all. I’m still on track for that May 1 release date, so I’m devoting all my time to that. I feel confident it’ll be worth it!