Searching For- Rei Kitajima In-all Categoriesmo... Apr 2026

But with Rei Kitajima? Crickets.

Rei Kitajima may have been an active user in the late 90s or early 2000s—back when handles were pseudonyms and “All Categories” meant a GeoCities page or a Usenet post. Everything they created has since been buried under layers of link rot and server shutdowns. Searching for- Rei Kitajima in-All CategoriesMo...

Here is what I found (and what I didn’t). Usually, when you search for a person in “All Categories,” you expect a split second of algorithmic certainty. Wikipedia. Instagram. LinkedIn. A news article. A sports statistic. But with Rei Kitajima

In creative circles (doujinshi, indie game dev, underground music), a single name sometimes masks a rotating group of collaborators. “Rei Kitajima” could be a project name, not a person. Searching “All Categories” fails because the signal is scattered across different mediums: a song on Niconico, a texture pack for a 2007 RPG Maker game, a recipe on a long-dead food blog. Everything they created has since been buried under

If you know a Rei Kitajima—a photographer, a programmer, a poet, a player of obscure rhythm games from 2006—send them this post. Tell them someone is looking.

But I haven’t given up.