About Me
I read manga for fun, and adapt it to put a roof over my head (also fun, which is a plus!). I use my full name for credits, but “Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane” is quite the mouthful, so more often than not I drop most of it when I’m not wearing my professional hat. I’m the adapter on multiple manga series for TOKYOPOP, and have also adapted manga-related fanbooks for both TOKYOPOP and Del Rey Manga. A full list of my adaptation credits can be seen here. I also review manga for MangaLife.com.
My training is in academic theatre (primarily playwriting and dramaturgy), with forays into studying screenwriting and Japanese religious traditions.
I did not, alas, have an actual cat named Segue once; I can’t even take credit for the phrase, which mysteriously entered my social circle’s vocabulary a couple years back. Still working on tracking its origin down.
