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Yuki’s Hair Color in A Sign of Affection
2024 has begun in earnest, and with the new year comes new anime which I began as I was writing my review of the year that was in 2023. Some New Leaf Journal readers will know that I am possibly the...
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Comparing my al|together VN rank to VNDB
The English visual novel localization community translated 31 doujin Japanese visual novels from Japanese into English for three al|together translation festivals that took place in 2005, 2006, and...
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Itsuomi’s Hair Color in A Sign of Affection
I am watching an ongoing shoujo romance anime called A Sign of Affection. After I watched the fourth episode, I published a long article on the evidence in the first two episodes that the protagonist...
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Free H2O Seen in Brooklyn
You never know what kind of free stuff you will find while walking around Brooklyn, New York. I have detailed free finds in Brooklyn including, but not limited to, l-shaped desks, chairs, pink...
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Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-13 years ago, I wrote a guide to The Answer, the 25-30 hour epilogue to the monumental PlayStation 2 Japanese RPG, Persona 3 FES (it ranks highly on my personal...
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Sources On Ai Ai Gasa (Love Umbrella)
I will provide a survey of English language sources in a Japanese concept: “the love umbrella” or ai ai gasa. Having watched a great number of anime over the last 15 years, I am familiar with a trope...
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EDDA Café – Visual Novel Review
EDDA Café is a freeware original English language visual novel created by Mushroomallow Studio, a visual novel studio based in Indonesia. The final version was first released on Itch.io on August 7,...
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Persona 3 FES Reaper Strategy (Infinity)
I wrote an article about an old guide I put together for a friend for navigating The Answer epilogue to Persona 3 FES. While writing that guide, I included a note about a very strong optional Persona...
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Presidents Who Went By Middle Names
Although President Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, only 45 men have served as President. This is owed to the fact that one of those 45 men, former President Grover Cleveland,...
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A Sign of Affection Ep 7 Hair Color Notes
I have written two articles about hair color in the world of the ongoing A Sign of Affection anime adaptation in my capacity as the internet’s leading 2D anime person hair color anthropologist. The...
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WordPress.com One-Page Feed Aggregator Site
I noted in Newsletter Leaf Journal 174 that my Osmosfeed static feed aggregator site, which I had been using to collect my articles from around the web in one place, broke. While I am sure that I...
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Tomozaki Anime and Big Tech Social Media
Last year, I wrote an article jokingly suggesting that an anime character (Akane in My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999) was making a mistake by running Windows instead of Linux and that she could...
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Introducing Pokémon Red Novel Project
This article serves as a short introduction to a new project that I am undertaking to create a novelization of a new play-through of Pokémon Red with strategy guide characteristics. Inspiration The...
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True Remembrance (Insani) – Visual Novel Review
True Remembrance is a freeware doujin Japanese visual novel created by Satomi Shiba and first released in 2003. It proved to be popular, and Mr. Shiba released a re-mastered version using the KiriKiri...
View ArticleFebruary 2024 at The New Leaf Journal
February has come to a close and with that it is time for our regular month-in-review. You may notice a change with the timing this month. With the exception of October 2020 and October 2023 (for...
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Shin Iryū’s Hair Color in A Sign of Affection
I previously published three articles on hair color in the 2024 A Sign of Affection anime adaptation. The first article introduced the real-world setting of the series and employed evidence from a...
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Fallen One Way Sign in DUMBO
It occurred to me while I was out walking on the evening of February 8, 2024, that it has been a long time since I posted a fallen street sign article here at The New Leaf Journal. This sounds...
View ArticleHigh School Newspaper Microsoft Publisher Memories
In February 2024, Microsoft announced that one part of its Office suite, Microsoft Publisher, will reach its end of life in October 2026. My first thought when I read this news was that I thought...
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History of My Anime Hair Color Project
I have a peculiar, long-running, loosely organized series of articles about hair color in Japanese anime, manga/light novels, and games. The series serves as evidence of my writing what I want to...
View ArticleRevisiting My Ideal E-Ink QWERTY Phone
On February 23, 2023, I published an article titled The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY. The headline was not misleading. My ideal phone would have an e-ink display and a QWERTY keyboard. For that...
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