Japanese Approved
This celebrates authors who got it right, as judged by an Actual Japanese Person
Stories in English that prominently feature Japanese language, culture, characters, geography, religion, or other elements.
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Whirlpool Queen, Maelstrom King by cheshire_carroll
Fandoms: Naruto, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Mar 2024
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Certain lives and certain deaths, they are significant enough that when souls pass over before their time, they are reborn into new worlds. Sansa remembering is an anomaly, but The North Remembers and Sansa is of the North; She Remembers.
Sansa thinks very little of this new world, or this new village she is meant to call ‘home’, but she does love her new brother, who shines so brightly the gods must surely have breathed star-fire into his bones when they created him. The first time Naruto tells her he will be Hokage, she does not doubt him– he was born to rule, just as she was. But Konoha does not deserve him, and she will not let them take and take until there is nothing left of her bright brother. She is Sansa Stark, she knows how to rebuild a home from ruins, and the ruins of Uzushiogakure call.
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- Part 1 of Sansa Stark Crossovers
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“Konoha is our home,” Naruto whispers as he stares up at him, eyes a burning blue and pupils slit like a fox. The words, unprompted as they are, sound like a vow. “The Great Tree must be protected. The rot burned away. We could not allow him to cut away an entire bough that could still be saved.”
‘Oh,’ Hiruzen thinks somewhat helplessly as he stares down at this prince of two villages that he in his weakness had left to be twisted and tainted like this, ‘oh may the gods see me damned.’
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After yet another incident results in Naruto in the hospital and his assigned caretakers dead, Sarutobi gives Naruto to Danzo to raise and things take a rather abrupt step sideways.
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By the end of the Third Shinobi War, she gained a spot in most Bingo Books with various monikers attached to her name: “Poison Apple,” “Bloody Princess,” and “The Mad Butcher.” However, a small handful of Leaf ninja had another moniker for her: "The Bloody Oracle of Kiri".
Or: An SI/OC who's already got a screwed up moral compass and fits right in with the Bloody Mist.
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"wherever i am, the world comes after me. it offers me its busyness. it does not believe that i do not want it. now i understand why the old poets of china went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist." - mary oliver, the old poets of china.
an accidental not-child is raised hidden in a red light district until a fateful event alters the course of her life and leads to her being sent away to be raised by her father.
a somewhat accurate look at the redlight districts of japan before the fall of the tokugawa rule, an eventual introduction to myths and legends of japan with a lovely little sprinkle of panic attacks and moral dilemmas. SI-OC.
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frog in a well by unolvrs
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Dec 2023
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In a world plagued by villains, heroes, and supernatural powers that may as well be cursed techniques, Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara conclude that the only way to capture the attention of the missing Itadori Yūji is to force their faces on screen.
—or, the frogs learn to live outside the well, while missing a third of themselves, and that is by attending Japan's number one hero school.
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- Part 1 of beyond the well
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The Tale of the Peach Blossom Prince by ChumbalieWumbus
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
04 Apr 2023
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A single, bad joke, and Yuuji's life is completely rearranged; launched haphazardly and half-dead into the Heian-era, he has to compete with a Sukuna who has his own body back, and all the plotting power a millennia-long grudge can gift him.
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The sun rises over Brockton Bay.