NINJARUSS

In spite of it all...

I’m an otaku, and I want to tell stories of my own. I make videos, write, and build tools around the things I love. Sometimes a story that’s completely over the top is what makes me want to try harder at the life I already have.

Now

Where I’m at

Coincidences

Essays & notes

Writing

Personal essays on life and becoming the person I want to be.

Free Time The Importance (and Uselessness) of Yapping Why One Must Fall All writing →
Ninjaruss pointing toward the viewer against a gold and black spiral YouTube

Watch Ninjaruss

Videos about anime, learning Japanese, and my life in Japan.

My Marie video essay →

Projects

Tools I built around the things I love.

Visual novel

Remember Rain

A work in progress.

Rain dreams of writing a story that will inspire someone. Following a ghost makes him a fugitive, pulling him into supernatural horrors that threaten the refuges he turns to for escape. He keeps reaching for his dreams without knowing what pursuing them will cost.

Manuscript, characters, and planning documents

Explore Remember Rain
Media log

Shelf

Stories, characters, and music that stick with me.

Practice

Japanese journal

Short entries I write in Japanese as I learn, mistakes included.

Traces Guestbook

A few words from people passing through.

Leave a trace