Ah, I only started reading this week’s chapter today! (But I also finished it today. Had to leave the Nintendo Switch and Pokemon at home so I could read on my bus commutes and during lunch.)
Page 88: I love easy pages!
Page 90: I know this isn’t entirely uncommon in manga, but I love that Makoto speaks using ます, because that’s what we were taught in Japanese class back when I was in high school. Reading casual Japanese feels far apart from what I learned way back in the beginning, so Makoto’s dialogue feels nostalgic for me.
Page 91: Makoto says 「大丈夫なんです」 This なん used to give me so much trouble, but these days I know it’s 「大丈夫な」+「の」+「です」. I can feel the progress I’ve made when I recognize this. But I still have a ways to go to fully be comfortable with it, to understand it without thinking about it and analyzing it.
Page 92: I’m glad to see talk of がてら above, because I had no idea what to make of it. (I mean, aside from the obvious misreading of 散歩+が+てら. Like, what do you mean the walk is a temple? Makes so much more sense after reading about がてら.)
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Page 96: Hey, it’s 意地悪. I learned that from WaniKani not too long ago! I’m glad I’m not the only one who was confused by the からかっちゃ.
Page 101: Why did I read Nao’s line as 「いないだ」? It’s not the first time I’ve misread 「こないだ」 this way, and it makes no sense to me as I know hiragana very well. At least when I finished reading the whole line, my immediate thought was, “Shouldn’t this be こないだ?”
Page 103: Tiny print is hard to read on the ebook. Last panel, I believe it’s 「言葉わかるんだ…」
Page 104: Makoto really likes sprinkling those English words into her sentences, doesn’t she?
Page 105: I just realized, the 苦労 I learned from WaniKani is part of ご苦労様.