Nakahama

Not going to lie, this Kaida has me wanting a pom again. I think the cats would freak out, so it's not going to happen, but I miss the friendly little furballs. Thanks for bringing one and writing him so well.

iirc Kanna is Tonbo trained instead of Tamori, yes? Is that a tendency for her family in general, or was she the odd duck? I can see Tamori mad science in the spa labs, and also the change and healing of Tonbo's water focus both being handy for the family's particular line of business.

What did she think of the existing spa offerings here, and how her Usagi no Yomogi line would fit in?

Suzume Hitomi wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 12:33 am Not going to lie, this Kaida has me wanting a pom again. I think the cats would freak out, so it's not going to happen, but I miss the friendly little furballs. Thanks for bringing one and writing him so well.

iirc Kanna is Tonbo trained instead of Tamori, yes? Is that a tendency for her family in general, or was she the odd duck? I can see Tamori mad science in the spa labs, and also the change and healing of Tonbo's water focus both being handy for the family's particular line of business.

What did she think of the existing spa offerings here, and how her Usagi no Yomogi line would fit in?

Thanks for letting me know I did a decent portrayal of a young pom. One of the YouTubers I follow (Girl With The Dogs) have poms of her own, so I took a lot of inspiration from her and her little floofs.

Kanna is indeed Tonbo-trained! I just wasn't connecting to the Tamori school this time around, even if it is very cool, and decided on the Tonbo instead since they rarely get any love and are now a Dragon school. Her branch of the Tamori does have closer relations to the Tonbo (some intermarriage there between branch families of the Kuge, established way back when), as it did allow them to focus more into medical research. For Kanna, as she was an accident-prone child, it just seemed way safer to put her with the Tonbo for training than in a Tamori lab. Her other siblings are Tamori-trained though, but her father is Tonbo-trained like her!

She greatly enjoyed Natsuzora and would recommend it for anyone staying long-term! But since it catered mostly to its guests, it made the spa portion a bit out of reach, in her opinion (she did treat Ichitaiyo to a 2-week pass upon their first meeting), so she hopes that Usagi no Yomogi will be more available to the general public, as she also plans a small branch of it too in the more busy part of Nakahama for people to drop in and get a quick 30 minute massage between meetings or on their lunch break.

Usagi no Yomogi will open up outside of the city proper, to offer a peaceful retreat surrounded by nature.