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''[[http://www.saijikistories.com Saijiki Stories]]'' is a collection of five {{Webcomic}} {{Fairy Tale}}s by Leanne Opaskar, currently in progress. ''Saijiki'' is Japanese for ''dictionary of season words'' in haiku. There are five seasons therein, so there are five stories in the series: Autumnside, Winterside, New Year, Springside, and Summerside.

''[[http://www.saijikistories.com/autumnside/?strip_id=0 Autumnside]]'' (ended in Spring of 2009) follows the story of Mala, a human girl, and Jack Bales, an animated scarecrow, who find a strange glowing ball. They set out to discover what it is, but encounter a number of difficulties, including a big bad wolf, an angry race of golems, and a rotten pumpkin.

''[[http://www.saijikistories.com/winterside/?strip_id=0 Winterside]]'' began in April of 2009. Mala's father returns home after a storm at sea, and the pumpkin people suffer from severe snowstorms. Mala becomes an apprentice to the witch Baba Yaga to investigate the reason for the bad weather.

''[[http://www.saijikistories.com/newyear/?strip_id=0 New Year]]'' (began in March 2010) picks up where Winterside left off, with Mala [[spoiler: separated from everyone she knows and]] trying to save a [[spoiler:far-off, Japanese-style]] village from a hungry monster and an oppressive governor.

''[[http://www.saijikistories.com/springside/?strip_id=0 Springside]]'' began in November of 2010, and is currently underway. ''Summerside'' will follow upon its completion.

! Tropes in this series include:
* AbandonedInfoPage The [[http://www.saijikistories.com/about.php#about About]] and [[http://www.saijikistories.com/cast.php Cast]] pages seem to have petered out around early Winterside.
* HolidayNonupdate [[http://www.saijikistories.com/springside/?strip_id=0 Just once]], and it served as the introduction to a new story, but it wished people a Happy Halloween on October 29th. Throughout the two-a-week Autumnside and three-a-week Winterside and New Year cycles, Saijiki published standard updates through two Christmases, two New Year's, Halloween and Thanksgiving ... and who knows how many federal holidays.
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* WebcomicTime Each season (which actually has a storyline of several days) appears to take just under a year to complete. Considering that the protagonist matures considerably with each story, this is actually one of the gentler examples.
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