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Hello/good morning, new people. Thanks for stopping by. I got a couple hours of sleep and I'm probably going to spend all day today working more on the Blanche Appleton case.

Here's where the story currently stands:

-Blanche Appleton, at first, appears to be a hoax invented by Kikkoman, possibly to appear prestigious and influential during the postwar occupation of Japan. There is shockingly little (i.e. apparently none) evidence of her existence outside of sources citing back to Kikkoman.

-After further investigation, signs right now are pointing to Blanche Appleton being a real individual working in the Economic and Scientific Bureau of the General Headquarters at the time. However, there are still many questions I want to find answers to.

-In a picture on Kikkoman's website, a woman stated to be Blanche Appleton is standing next to a clan head, Toshihiro Shoda, who was involved in Shoda Shoyu, a current shoyu brewery. Kikkoman would be put on trial for price fixing and found guilty along with three other major breweries, and would be subject to trustbusting and apportioning of assets due to it.

-Shoda Shoyu inherited Kikkoman assets during the dispersal, profiting off of the trustbust. But if so, why would Kikkoman have let him into one of their main factories as an apparent honored guest alongside Appleton? What is his relationship to Appleton and this story as a whole?

-Right now I'm trying to get all my current information composited/compiled, along with where I've found it. After that, I've started investigating the history of zaibatsu and yakuza clan organizations in businesses. I want to see if I can't track connections from the antitrust actions taken against Kikkoman directly to organized crime, or if I can't find implications of pseudo/semilegal methods used to ensure Kikkoman didn't truly get busted.

I'm grateful to everyone for their interest, and I promise I will keep all of you updated as things come; your involvement has been important as well. I'm very grateful to have such a dedicated audience to call on for help. I would prefer not to contact any third party investigative youtuber-type deal; this is something I want to be my own. If you'd like to support me during this time, my pinned post has some information for paying me--I'm currently a college student and goin through a real rough patch trying to get food on my table, so some coins in the tip jar would be the best way to allow me to encourage myself to keep on this story.

Once I decide on a properly appropriate name for all of this, I'm going to start tagging all my posts/additions about this with that name, that way people can follow the tag to get more reliable notifications about new developments.

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The Gargoyle, October 1925

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I haven't a damned thing to say, that's alright.

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all art of jesus is fanart

#thoughts

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hiii i’m opening commissions for a little while! i’ll have 5 slots open so if you’re interested, contact me via DMs (the chat function, not the one with the anonymous messages). reblogs appreciated!

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Narancia, taking absolutely none of Mista's weight, basically just side-hugging: I'm helping !

Mista, fully able to stand on his own but enjoying the TLC anyway: yeah dude u sure are

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Breaking: "if a tree falls in the woods" problem revealed to be misunderstanding, philosophers do not have object permanence

#shitpost

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What if we both had little teddy bears and they kissed 😳😳😳

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mfw

#mfw

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on my way to delete all the posts because I was and am wildly unfunny

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idk

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Hi! I was just curious about if you’d ever be willing to draw anything Fugo x Narancia related. Totally fine if not, I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea I just think they’re cute together and I’m in love with the way you draw them

Well as I've mentioned, I hc Narancia as aromantic so I dont have any like. Actual romance stuff.

I do have A Cat Getting Used To The New Puppy tho!

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I love your art style so much your narancia is how narancia is supposed to be ily

My scrunkly scrimbo spingus etc

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how do I tumble

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NaraMis at their finest

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Dickbutt (affectionate)

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This is the artist ever!!!!

Hold me closer, tiny dancer