Was that them? Maybe. Maybe not. The internet is not a library. It is a landfill with occasional treasures. Searching for “Rei Kitajima in All Categories” is a reminder that most digital lives are not archived—they are simply abandoned.
But I haven’t given up.
The search results page looked like a waiting room. A few obscure forum mentions. A broken link to a now-deleted Pixiv account. A single mention in a 2014 manga scanlation credits page that read: “Special thanks to R.K.” When a person exists in the margins like this, you start to develop theories. After two hours of clicking through “All Categories”—Images, News, Shopping, Videos, Blogs, Forums—I landed on three possibilities. Searching for- Rei Kitajima in-All CategoriesMo...
When a person doesn’t exist in Shopping, they aren’t selling merch. When they don’t exist in News, they haven’t done anything newsworthy. When they don’t exist in Videos, they aren’t a creator. Was that them
Today, I went down that rabbit hole. The query was simple: — with the scope set to “All Categories.” The internet is not a library
I found one thread from 2009—a Japanese text board about retro PC-98 games. A user named “Kita_Rei” posted a walkthrough for a dungeon crawler no one has heard of. The account was never used again.