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Jane Eyre

There is an exchange in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s I find particularly funny. When confronted for an example of something that means something, Holly answers without hesitation, “Wuthering Heights.” The narrator’s indignation at being compared to a genius turns to shameful conceit upon discovering that Holly is in fact, referring to the movie. “Oh,…

June 3, 2026
Investigating a New Kind of English

Over the past several months, I translated two routes of Tsuki no Kanata de Aimashou (Kirari and Kiriko) as a small side project to keep me busy while I finished my graduate studies. While I do not have much to say about those routes or the game itself (I did not find it interesting enough…

August 2, 2025
Parfait ~Chocolat Second Brew~

It is not quite right to call Parfait underrated. It has for most of the last 20 years been consistently among the top 10 highest rated games on erogamescape with a median score of 90. Yet for one of the untranslated classics from the golden era of eroge, it is one that is relatively overlooked…

November 6, 2024
You might want to read Hatsuyuki Sakura

Hatsuyuki Sakura is a tale about a boy that walks the border of life and death. Kawano Hatsuyuki lives only to carry out the revenge of faceless ghosts so that he may be reunited once more with the long-lost souls of his past. With the date of his deadly revenge set on the same day…

October 21, 2024
December When There is No Angel v1.1 released

The final version of the translation patch for Tenshi no Inai 12gatsu has been released. The release fixes the misnumbered endnotes and minor typos. There are no material changes to the script itself. This concludes this particular journey. Thank you for reading.

August 15, 2024
Tenina missing notes

There were two missing notes in the Touko route. I have included them below and updated the notes in the patch files. There will be a future fix to update the numbering and other minor typos. A few people have inquired about the necessity of these notes, as well as the possibility of a version…

June 26, 2024
December when there is no angel – Translation Release

I would like to thank everyone involved in making this release possible. It was an honor bringing this beautiful script to English.

June 14, 2024
Sakura no Uta – a post mortem

If I had any regrets regarding this 2 yearlong reading of Sakura no Uta, it would be that I never did get around to finding something to say about Pica Pica. The route is unique because it focuses on what I consider the true action taking place throughout the story, the sacrifice of those that…

May 8, 2024
Art, Joy, and the Eternal Perspective

This essay is part of an ongoing series on Sakura no Uta. It contains spoilers for the content through The Happy Prince and Other Tales. The transition from What is Mind to the Happy Prince can be outlined in the questions asked by Paul Gaugin and Nagayama Kana, Where do we come from? What are We?…

May 6, 2024
Mind, Body, and the Transcendental Dialectic

This essay is part of an ongoing series on Sakura no Uta. It contains spoilers for the content through What is Mind? The transition visual of Mizuna in the cage evokes the ancient Greek concept of “soma sema,” that the body is the prison of the soul. This is a concept closely related to Plato’s…

April 24, 2024

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