Tag Archives: Research Article

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

The most difficult part of my al|together visual novel review project was finding what I needed to run Midsummer Haze…

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

Was Just Dance 2020 really the last Nintendo Wii game? It depends on where you look.

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).

Contrary to EGM’s 2002 April Fools claims, Sonic and Tails were not, in fact, in SSB Melee (but they may have almost been)

A stream of consciousness about anime romances that highlight big height/size differences (and office anime rom-coms too).

I discovered an original GIF advertisement for the then-upcoming June 24, 2004 release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I tell the story of my discovery and re-print the GIFs.

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

A comprehensive history of the 1999 settlement between Nintendo and the New York State Attorney General.

Lost in the Y2K talk was another feared computer bug which also wasn’t.