Introducing Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi (formerly Stories from Mayotte)

Remember "The Erasmus Experience" and "One Night in Stockholm"? 

For those who don't remember, these two completely different stories served as prologues to a new project that was originally known as "Stories from Mayotte", which has been in the works for 2 months, since March of this year.

Besides the other projects that I've been working on for a long time, this project, which is now known as "Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi" (meaning "Clear Dawn Stories" in the Swahili language) primarily focuses on a combination of actual true stories originating from my home island of Mayotte and from other countries around the world, and mostly fictional stories based on my own anime-inspired universe. 

However, unlike the ending in One Night in Stockholm, where Yara and her boyfriend Lael will talk about various stories throughout their countryside vacations primarily through oral tradition, "Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi" will focus on the perspective of a new female protagonist named Yasmina, who is the eldest daughter of a family of farmers-turned-teachers. 

Also, here are the descriptions of some of the characters that'll be appearing in "Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi".

1) Yasmina

The eldest daughter of a family of farmers-turned-teachers of mixed Swahili descent, who goes to the same high school as Yara and her friends Bruno and Yatomi. 

Unlike others around her, she is very passionate about the world, art, languages and literature to the point where she's still trying her best to care about the people around her and likes to tell a variety of different stories from various places around the world.

2) Kenan

An university student, who has known his former neighbor Yara since childhood.

Growing up, their parents have known each other, and they had both made a promise to marry and live with each other when they became adults, but sadly, he moved far away to study in Metropolitan France after graduating from high school, and she hasn't seen him since.

2 years later, he moved back to his home island, where he continued his journey as a work-study student and started working a side job as an English teacher online.

Anyways, "Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi" will have a variety of different characters other than Yasmina and Kenan, and will be focused on telling different and relatable stories.

However, before we end our post, I would like to share the good news that I officially got permission to stream on RPLAY after almost 2 years! 

Although it's only a matter of time before the current school year ends in July, I'll continue to update you all from time to time while waiting for the main internet services to be repaired and restored.

That's all I have to say for today, so stay tuned for more information about "Hadithi ya Alfajiri Safi"!

May Character Introduction

Hello, it's been only 2 weeks since the last character introduction on April, which was posted around the same time as the Golden Week holidays in Japan.

Recently, it's been 6 days since the Golden Week holidays has already ended.

Despite all this, even though it's the last week of my spring break as I head back to school tomorrow, I have a new female character that I would like to introduce, but first, let's introduce her.

1) Mahnaz (May 2nd, 2025)

"Hello everyone! I'm Mahnaz, an ordinary girl who loves to travel around the world!"

An ordinary female storyteller, who is an upperclassman of Yara and Bruno's in high school.

Unlike them, she lived in a completely different country, under a different name, with her mother and stepfather, who never cared about her well-being and abused her on a daily basis to the point where they isolated her from her paternal side of the family in Romania.

After she reached puberty, she was forced to marry a man twice her age in Syria, a place where she had no relatives to rely on against her will by her mother, leaving her with no choice but to escape from her own wedding and home.

After escaping her abusive home, she was more than happy to be reunited with her biological father back in Romania, who felt the same way despite him not seeing his own daughter for years.

Later, she moved to the same island as Yara due to her father's job relocation, where she started living in her village and going to the same high school as her, although a grade ahead of her.

1 year later, she clicked on an suspicious ad that promised a job offer at Omakase Cafeteria, and it was there that she joined their marketing team, this time debuting as a VTuber under the name of Mahnaz.

That's all I have to say about Mahnaz for today.

Stay tuned for more updates about her and from us, as I'll update you all next time! 

Good night!