The New Leaf Journal

Reviewing the month that was in new articles at The New Leaf Journal in February 2024 and the triumph of anime hair color in our monthly ranking.

I review Insani’s 2008 local treanslation of Satomi Shiba’s excellent doujin freeware visual novel, True Remembrance.

I introduce my Pokémon Prismatic Adventures project, wherein I will play through Pokémon Red, turn my play-through into a novel/strategy guide, and serialize the novel here at The New Leaf Journal.

Examining the promotion of “Pinstagram” as a tool for social climbing in school in season two of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun.

On creating a single-page feed aggregator site for The New Leaf Journal and related projects using WordPress.com’s free plan.

Episodes 2 and 5 of A Sign of Affection indirectly established that main characters Yuki Itose and Itsuomi Nagi dye their hair. Episode 7 brought further notes about their hair color and one on Itsuomi’s friend, Shin Iryū.

Four Presidents — Hiram ULYSSES Grant, Stephen GROVER Cleveland, Thomas WOODROW Wilson, and John CALVIN Coolidge — effectively used their middle names as first names. In this article, I examine each of these interesting presidential name cases.

I recall a creative strategy I used to take down a difficult enemy called the Reaper in Persona 3 FES. Instead of the common approach (using Thunder Reign), I made use of a special move called Infinity.

A full review of EDDA Café, a short, very aesthetic, freeware original English-language visual novel by an Indonesian studio focusing on overcoming regrets related to a tragedy that occurred on a certain Valentine’s Day.

I consult original English sources to get to the bottom of the meaning and history of Japan’s ai ai gasa (“love umbrella”).

I share an old outline party composition guide that I wrote for Persona 3 FES’s The Answer epilogue back in 2011 or 2012.

You can find many free things left outside in Brooklyn, New York. This includes free furniture, free books, and, apparently, free gallons of Poland Spring water.