About

Kumar Sivasubramanian is an Indian-born Canadian who lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, son, and boss, Jessie the Cat. By day he is a two-time Eisner Award nominated manga translator, and by night he is a metalhead, and podcasts nonstop about comic books.

Interviews:

An Interview with Kumar Sivasubramanian (10 March 2014)

Found in Translation (10 January 2017)

Studying Japanese Through Manga – Part 1 (29 June 2019)

Studying Japanese Through Manga – Part 2 (5 August 2019)

Translator Steps Down From Shonen Jump Manga After Declaring It Untranslatable (21 February 2023)

What It Takes to Translate One of the Biggest Manga Around (11 February 2025)