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Kizuna (絆) means "bond" or "connection" in Japanese. It's a collaborative Texthooker UI page made for Japanese Learners who want to track their progress and immersion alone or with friends while playing japanese games or reading books and visual novels.

It is inspired by the great Renji's Texthooker UI page and aims to provide a familiar interface while adding new features, such as:

  • Realtime Collaborative Reading Rooms
  • 1-click reading session logging
  • Room and personal stats overview/charts
  • Text streaming for 朗読 sessions with lookups + mining support
  • Easily organizing collective events such as readathons
  • Custom daily immersion goals for rooms
  • Keybindings Support
  • Built-in Pomodoro Timer
  • Discord Webhook Integration

How to Use

1. Create or Join a Room

Start by creating your own room or joining an existing one with a room ID. Rooms can be password-protected for privacy.

⚠️ Important: If it's your first time using Kizuna, choose a username and save the code that is displayed once you join. It will be required if you ever need to authenticate again (from a different computer or browser, for example.)

2. Connect Your Text Source

There are a few ways of sending text to Kizuna:

  • Use a texthooker (like Textractor or similar tools) to capture text from your game.
  • Kizuna gets text via websocket, so any tool that offers a websocket connection should work. All you need to do is to change the "Websocket URL" setting to point to it.
  • If you are using a clipboard inserter extension, just enable it in the texthooker page.
  • For books with ttsu reader, use the integration userscript.

3. Read and Track your Stats

Once you join a room, you will see the texthooker page. If the websocket connection worked, the connection icon will be green. For connection methods that do not use a websocket, such as clipboard inserter or extension scripts, the connection icon won't change.

You should then be able to read as usual. Once you finish your reading session, open the Kizuna menu and click Log Reading Session. Type the name of the game or visual novel you were playing, select it from the choices and click Log.

Your reading session is now logged. You will be able to see it in the Room's reading log and in your profile tab. It will also be reflected on all stats views.

Data Sources

  • Visual novel search and data is powered by VNDB
  • Games and books search and extra visual novel data is powered by Jiten