The New Leaf Journal

My review of Flood of Tears, a freeware visual novel with a ton of heart and a very charming heroine in Hina Kawase.

Is “eco-friendly” really a selling point for a single highlighter?

Wherein I offer concept art (a photograph) of what the ideal phone would look like.

An 1842 poem wherein a woman waxes poetic (literally, it’s a poem) about her very handsome horse.

I noted indirectly in a previous article that one of my favorite video games is Legend of Heroes: Trails in the […]

A long Internet Archive-aided research project into the version release history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari.

Reviewing “A Winter’s Tale,” the official English version of a charming freeware ren’ai Japanese visual novel that had been released in Japan in 2002.

If Bing blacklists a site in its index from appearing to searchers, will it still use the site to inform its ChatGPT implementation? A simple question for Microsoft.

I published a collection of poetry by Charlotte Becker, a poet who was most active in the first quarter of the […]

When you purchase a digital ebook in one format only to have Amazon replace it with an inferior format.

A moral story warning children against repeating bad things that they hear about others.

I knew I had heard the ending song of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten somewhere. Here, I discover where.