About / Contact

Kumar Sivasubramanian is an Indian-born Canadian who lives in Naarm (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)

Studying Japanese Through Manga (reprint) (21 February 2026)

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)