Suiren, Chapter One: Rain…

I’ve noticed that lot of fanfiction authors preface their stories with ‘mood’ quotes from pieces of music or poetry. For some reason, i’ve often wanted to do that, even though the cynical, pragmatic part of my brain decries the practice as unnecessarily derivative and pretentious.
Also, i don’t usually read poetry, and i’ve often been told that my taste in music is… [...]

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Back to Basics (part one)…

Has anyone else ever noticed that the three ‘basic’ ninjutsu that all ninja in Naruto are supposed to know, Henshin, Bunshin and Kawarimi, are also among the most poorly explained techniques in the series? Let’s break down what we know, shall we?

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Genocidal Tendencies…

There is a well-known Universal Law related to fandom that goes, in one of its many variations, “Every time you try to drag real physics into a discussion about a fantasy story, God kills a catgirl…”

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Technology Levels in Naruto (or ‘Getting to the Party Late’)…

I recently discovered that Aaron Nowack, author of the excellent Hundred Days Naruto fanfic, has a weblog! In his blog, one of the ancient, ancient posts centered around a topic near and dear to my heart: world building in stories.
Specifically, it was a discussion about the how and why of the semi-anachronistic tech levels in [...]

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