We often want to go back home, but where is home now? As we live, cities change, the mighty of yesterday fall, new players rise, and unthinkable things happen. Our little worlds become increasingly unrecognizable, things just go on without a clear narrative, and one day, it’s our own time to go. That’s just life:… Read More Blood of the Wise, Blood of the Fool
Nagomu has been working for ten years to make it as a musician (with meager results) when a package of his family’s traditional sakura manju arrives bearing a little something more than its customary deliciousness: a letter, with news startling enough to get the wayward son to hop on a train home right away. Upon… Read More First Impression: Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
Hello again! DTS is over, and I can hardly believe it. The last month went by like a train, and although it hit me really hard, it was amazing. It’s kind of hard to adjust to Canada, and there are so many friends I had to leave behind, but that’s okay because it was so… Read More Lynna’s Adventure in Japan: Part 5
On March 29, artist, songwriter, and worship leader Cait Plage is releasing All We Have is Now, her new EP. The release “shares what God has placed openly on her heart.” Cait describes herself as a bubble-tea-sipping singer-songwriter who once voiced Japanese anime and loves a good seaweed salad.” I was blessed to have an… Read More Interview with Singer and Voice Actress Cait Plage
Here is chapter two of the four chapter series, “Apostle’s Sword.” We’ll be revealing one chapter every Thursday until the series in completed, though you can read it in it’s entiry now at Fanfiction.net. Even if you didn’t read the previous installment, I beg you to give this story a shot. There are quite a… Read More Christ Meets Kenshin: Apostle’s Sword, Chapter 2
Boy loves girl. Girl hates boy. Boy is trying to get into a good college to impress/join/get a good job for girl. Boy prays for said college in obligatory Hatsumode episode. This series of events has played out a number of times in anime and manga series. On New Year’s Day, many Japanese go to… Read More Of Kami and Buddhas: School Prayer
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