takatsu, in 2008, pioneered the English cell phone novel and brought over the phenomenon from Japan after watching Japanese television drama like Koizora, Akai Ito and various. Like many fans of Japanese entertainment, he realized they were originally cell phone novels. After research and reading cell phone novels, discovering there were no English cell phone novels and seeing the potential of the literary form, he came across Textnovel.com (the first site in North America to recognize cell phone novels). At the time, it was only a budding concept and there were no actual cell phone novel stories on the site. However, there was a member who had translated a few Japanese cell phone novels into English. The emotional intensity of these in English inspired Takatsu to experiment with his original cell phone novel in the Japanese style, and "Secondhand Memories" became the very first English language cell phone novel in the West and in the world.

After Secondhand Memories, many writers of all ages from all over the world began to take up the mantle and get involved in the community, following this movement. Over the past many years, with Takatsu's leadership, the form matured and evolved, and writers worldwide have been exploring the possibilities and the limits of the style, becoming more philosophical, artistic and poetic at times, or returning to the very root of the tradition with simple language and focusing on emotions, or even incorporating visual elements like changing fonts and sizes of fonts – all the while working with the short poetic chapter formats that defines cell phone novels. Textnovel became a niche site, a small tight-knit community and hosted the exclusive English speaking cell phone novel community and the largest collection of English cell phone novels in the world for many years.

The goodness of inspiration and connecting from art to heart, one heart to another, one life to another, is epitomized in the cell phone novel form, its deeply personal subculture and spirit, and its globalization.

(First written just for fun, Secondhand Memories surprisingly gained popularity with over 60,000 unique hits on Textnovel from the support of readers all across the world. Later, Secondhand Memories won various awards including Editor's Choice and moving through a series of stages in the Textnovel contest 2009, finally winning the Reader's Choice award and literary agent representation. In 2010, it was featured in a textbook in Japan. The highly anticipated and award-winning Secondhand Memories after completion, was published and released six years later on Feb 14th, 2015 as a 558-page paperback book and ebook form marking the first historic step into the real industry for the English cell phone novel movement. Onwards, it continues to spearhead the physical manifestation of the virtual and online writing form through multimedia expansion into music, animation, illustration, merchandise, collectibles and more, ultimately aspiring to build the platform and open up a new route for cell phone novelists to come.)