On September 29, 2024, I reviewed a visual novel called The Dandelion Girl: Don’t You Remember Me? As the name suggests, […] | Continue reading
Brooklyn Paper reports that a new scam involving fundraising solicitations for fake youth basketball teams is hitting Brooklyn. I note that it hit Brooklyn at least a few decades ago. | Continue reading
On incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune becoming the first Senate Majority Leader to have defeated a former Senate Majority Leader to win his Senate seat. | Continue reading
Reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal in October 2024. | Continue reading
I saw three free desks in Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street Waterfront District. I did not take. But then I saw a free magnifying mirror... | Continue reading
On a new and improved pigeon design on a New York City Board of Elections mailer. | Continue reading
Prompted by news that criminal charges were filed against an alien for voting unlawfully in Michigan, I examine the possible immigration consequences for aliens who vote in violation of U.S. law. | Continue reading
Remembering that time my high school classmate responded to a comment about the then-upcoming 2005 NYC mayoral election by expressing her concern that Bush would win again. | Continue reading
Reviewing inflatable Halloween decorations in Brownstone Brooklyn, seen and photographed in October 2024. | Continue reading
Crystal the Witch is a freeware English-language visual novel which takes place on the eve of Halloween. We Crystal, who is a (beginner) witch, her cat, and online friends. | Continue reading
I saw what is either an inflatable cat in a hat dressed as a bat or a cat-bat in a hat. | Continue reading
I published a survey on August 14 looking at the relative success rates of older vs younger candidates in presidential elections. […] | Continue reading
I selected the best freely available English-language sources on Halloween in Japan to learn about its growing popularity there in recent years. | Continue reading
Victor V. Gurbo shares his new covers of Mr. Blue and I'm So Tired, with the story of how his covers came to be and background information about the original songs. | Continue reading
Reviewing a freeware Halloween visual novel that just wants to ask you a question and takes about 60 seconds to read to completion. | Continue reading
I share my 2010-2014 memories of Anime Network on Demand, including exactly when I learned about the service in June 2010 (with the help of the Wayback Machine). | Continue reading
On October 30, 2020, I told the story of how I rescued a fallen trash can on the corner of Smith […] | Continue reading
I go back in time to review what I consider to be the best TV anime depiction of summer, a mature take on the classic age-swap story, Living for the Day After Tomorrow. | Continue reading
Fun Halloween chalk art seen on a stoop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. | Continue reading
How does an article about increased streaming numbers for "Diddy" songs remind me of a certain semi-public section at the former J&R electronics store in lower Manhattan? I invite you to find out. | Continue reading
Reviewing a busy month full of new articles at The New Leaf Journal in September 2024. | Continue reading
Reviewing a very artistic recommendation for a book about dinosaur fossils at Barnes & Noble on Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. | Continue reading
Justin goes to Ikea without Justina, shares live photos from his trip with Justina, including a photo of JUSTINA (which may or may not be an Ikea seat cushion). | Continue reading
Who is ready to join me for a walk across the new and improved Hamilton Avenue Footbridge? | Continue reading
I was enjoying a pleasant chat with a friend one September night on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade when we were treated to an unexpected fireworks show. | Continue reading
Our first review of an original English-language ONScripter visual novel covers The Dandelion Girl: Won't You Remember Me, a short kinetic novel based on Robert F. Young's 1961 short story, The Dandelion Girl. | Continue reading
Having already written about aesthetics and hair color in Days With My Stepsister, I figured that I may as well review the whole season. | Continue reading
I invite you as my guest to read about Google seeing how far it can push its luck with YouTube ads before "users" start finding other ways to spend their internet time. | Continue reading
When you see an odd-looking bug inside your building for about five consecutive days, there is only one thing to do (after repeatedly forgetting). It's time to be a hero. | Continue reading
My four part May Sky analysis concludes with a trip to the mountains and, apparently, snow in the hot month of August. | Continue reading
In part 3 of my 4-part May Sky story analysis, a salary man displays poor social skills in breaking news and expressing his feelings to a mercurial teenage part-time shrine maiden. | Continue reading
In part 2 of my 4-part May Sky visual novel analysis, a salaryman and shrine maiden fight about feelings, social decorum, and root vegetables. | Continue reading
A U.S.-centric take on how to localize Japanese high school classes in a way that is intelligible for readers familiar with 4-year high school systems. | Continue reading
I use textual evidence in May Sky to induce that it almost certaintly takes place in 2005 and 2006. | Continue reading
The first of a four-part in-depth analysis of the script of May Sky, one of the best of the 31 visual novel localizations to come out of al|together. A lonely newly-minted salary man meets a mercurial teenage shrine maiden... | Continue reading
April showers bring May flowers; August showers bring August mushrooms (or so says my photographic evidence). | Continue reading
Did I really write an entire article about the Belarusian government's allegations that Pokémon GO is a spy tool in order to deliver a pun? | Continue reading
Reviewing a new free and open source reaction game for Android called Click Switch. | Continue reading
A short piece for September 11 on the 9/11 Heroes Walk in Universal City, San Antonio, Texas. | Continue reading
I respond to the following prompt: "What’s a well-liked anime that you didn’t really like?." After defining the question, I work through a list to find a good answer. | Continue reading
Wherein I consider the subject of full archive RSS/ATOM feeds and explain why you should not expect to find more than 1000 New Leaf Journal articles in your inbox upon subscriibing. | Continue reading
Let's try this again: New Leaf Journal Guestbook version 3. | Continue reading
In our longest month-end review article yet, I not only review our 20 newest articles and most-visited posts of the month, but also discuss the broad aesthetic re-design of the site that I mostly completed. | Continue reading
A story about EA considering shoving ads into its AAA games led me to remember a time when you could buy an EA game and own it without ads. That gave rise to other memories. | Continue reading
I suggest a very minimalist way to scroll through our most recent 200 regular articles. | Continue reading
After writing numerous articles about the A Sign of Affection anime, I saw an ad for the manga on my Kindle lockscreen. While there is no conspiracy, I have a story. | Continue reading
Testing whether six degrees of NBA All Star Game teammate separation from LeBron James takes us to one of the 24 original NBA All Stars from the 1951 game. | Continue reading
A photo and history post on a little fireboat in Brooklyn Bridge Park named after former New York governor Alfred E. Smith. | Continue reading