Where the hell did all this happen?
A selective map of the places that shaped a chapter of JoaFruit, rather than everywhere Joa happened to pass through.
MountainMouth
Joa’s grand name for a little coastal town in Yamaguchi: part prison, part playground and the first proper JoaFruit kingdom.
Hiroshima
The essential escape hatch where Joa found his people, made himself public and briefly became as important as he already imagined.
Portugal
The under-blogged adventure with Kenken: Faro, camping, Lisbon art school and the inconvenient discovery that happiness produced fewer posts.
Airport New Town
The unfinished airport island where a horrific compromise became a breakup, a bleak winter and exactly the sort of glorious disaster JoaFruit needed.
Seoul
The first true metropolis Joa lived close enough to borrow: an escape from Airport New Town that never stood a chance of becoming home.
Tokyo
The city against which everywhere else was judged, where Joa finally moved, found a grown-up career and quietly evaporated.