Good evening all. My name is Adam, but I go by my surname of Perry. I'm 35, and in kind of a transitional period in my life. Here I am, sitting in bed, watching the anime that on its release in 2005 enlightened me to the world of riichi mahjong, Akagi. Of course at this point it was only fansubbed, no official release. 

Mahjong is such an amazing game. It is so completely customizable, can be simple or complex as you'd like, has all sorts of regional and national variants… touching tiles feels good, and it's hobby you can eagerly enjoy to the grave. 

That annoying billionaire is ruining the social media website I love the most, Twitter, so I desperately am looking for another place to feel at home posting. I came to this website because I could, in essence, read Kindai Mahjong on here with a subscription. When I was in my early twenties, it was actually pretty easy to get a subscription through a website that acts as an intermediary, but those convinient days are long gone. It seems like there are more and more mahjong articles from Twitter accounts I follow on here, so maybe this is another place I should try to lay my head. Or not! Maybe this is my last post. But it is unmistakably my first post! Hello!

[i decided  to add an additional paragraph which defines the ethos of my mahjong opinions that i wrote for another article]

I feel like my efforts at trying to attract interest in mahjong with my American friends online and in person have given me a pretty focused view at what works and what doesn't. I have run mahjong panels at various small-medium sized anime conventions for almost a decade and change. And while my opinion can't really be anything but anecdotal, I believe there is reason to suspect that riichi mahjong is a game that COULD become fully established in the English speaking world, increasing opportunities for players AND for the industry ecosystem. I'll just use this blog to explain and defend my opinions on the matter. As always, this is just my anecdotal opinion. I do not live in a place with a major club like LAPOM or NYC's riichinomi. I can't afford to travel to USPML or WRC events. I cannot easily play mahjong offline with a large amount of other people, so I spend a lot of time trying to think about how I could create a riichi fanbase from the normal Americans around me that are not really express fans of Japanese media culture. After all, mahjong is not inherently tied to animated cute girls or video games, it is itself an artifact of culture from the countries that play it.