Lotus Monogatari is a literary series about characters and relationships packed with Buddhist parables, inspiration from Japanese literature, and shared themes of one’s journey to purpose. Each work is different and the adventure is limitless.
Violet Antaka
Violet Antaka is a literary novel following one woman’s journey to her purpose while jockeying against Fate and the turmoil plaguing the Solar System. Inspired by Buddhist parables and traditional Japanese literature.
The Space Opera Literary Novel
“If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.”
Linji Yixuan
In a fragile society across the solar system a series of agitations threaten to shatter life beyond Earth. Thrust into the center of the storm, Violet— a diplomat-in-waiting enhanced by cutting-edge cybernetics—becomes a reluctant symbol of hope and transformation.
As the story unfolds, Violet uncovers the true cost of progress and the resilience of human spirit amidst despair.
Through Violet’s ceaseless pursuit of hope amidst stellar insurgency, uncomfortable truths, and destroying death, world renewal emerges from embracing the fragility of existence.
Coliseum of Parliament
Coliseum of Parliament is a manga series set in the alternative history post-World War II country of Yezo, which is comprised of the Japanese provinces of Aomori, Hokkaido, and Chishima. The series follows Ayala Taiyounokage, a sudden heir and replacement to her political juggernaut of a mother, and is thrown into the coliseum where everyone has a vision for Ayala except herself.
The Political Adventure Manga
“The strongest tree outlasts the winds of trends and opinions.”
Soma Umehori
The manga, Coliseum of Parliament, follows the political adventure of Ayala, the daughter of a political dynasty who turned her back on her birthright for a life outside of Yezo. Returning home and thrust into the coliseum of national politics as an independent gladiator, she must come to terms with pieces of the past she can no longer outrun: her family’s shadow and her purpose. With the stakes of national politics and intrigue will her political adventure be that of a puppet pulled or a gallant gladiator adored by the masses in the coliseum of parliament?
