Chiikawa 2025-10-28T14:42:46Z

Chiikawa PocketOne of Japan's most beloved characters, Chiikawa, now has their own smartphone game!Chiikawa won the grand prize for the Japan Character Awards in both 2022 and 2024.The official X account currently has over 3.8 million followers! (as of 3/2025)Sit back, relax, and take a trip into th

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Rain lashed against the shoji screens of my Kyoto ryokan, each droplet sounding like a taunt. I'd spent hours hunched over crumpled flashcards, trying to wrestle meaning from kanji that slithered like eels in ink. My grandmother's 80th birthday loomed – her first in Osaka since the war scattered our family – and I couldn’t even piece together "happy birthday" without sounding like a malfunctioning robot. The paper flashcards felt like tombstones for my intentions, cold and unyielding. That night

Sweat trickled down my neck in the Andean midday heat as I stared at the wizened artisan’s hands weaving alpaca wool. "¿Cuánto cuesta?" I asked, my textbook Spanish crumbling under her blank stare. She responded in rapid-fire Quechua – guttural syllables that might as well have been static. That’s when my thumb stabbed at Kamus Penerjemah’s crimson microphone icon. The moment it emitted those first translated Quechua phrases from my phone speaker, her leathery face erupted in a gap-toothed grin.