Episode 4
I was surprised when she mentioned the uniforms weren’t gender locked, like girls can wear trousers (which to me is obvious) and boys can wear skirts (less common in my experience), whether or not you identify as LGBTQ+.
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Week 4
Episode: 7. コスプレ interview with あやのさん + transcript 
Episode: 8. フィギュア interview with まことさん + transcript
Time Count: 06:56 + 08:49
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Episode 6
Listened rather passively (while doing WK reviews) so I didn’t catch most of it but listening to the English guy talking I was like hmm something sounds a little strange here and then he said he was English and I was like ahhhhhh
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Week 5
Episode: 9. 江戸時代 (えどじだい) interview with めぐみさん part 1 + transcript
Time Count: 20:34
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Ep 7
Cosplaying seems so fun, the more I hear about it the more I want to try it some day. But it can probably gets very expensive really fast, even though you can still buy second-hand like she said. And if you are not in a place where this hobby is popular it doesn’t sound so amusing to me to just do it alone and share pictures online.
Ep 9
This episode made me remember this book I’ve bought a long time ago, it’s the French edition here but I did a quick look-up and it seems to have been translated from this one. The book has a lot of beautiful illustrations and talks about a lot of subjects, samurai, ninja, stores, food… hair-styles too, if you were curious after listening to the podcast 
Soooo many different styles, the 大垂髪 ［おすべらかし］for example, more of a ceremonial style for the high-class with a pony-tail so long that it touches the ground (I looked it up for a second on Google and it seems that it was already existing in the Heian period…) or the 若衆髷［わかしゅうまげ］for the boys under 15 if I understood correctly (these boys were called wakashû so, this word + mage). They could shave their head only when they hit 15 from what I’ve read.
The book is really pretty and interesting but I agree with some of the critics in the Amazon reviews section, the yôkai part was too long and the format is a bit too small to fully appreciate the illustrations. I would still recommend it though.
About the podcasts in themselves the hardest part for me are the proper nouns, like the character names in the cosplay episode or even soomething like Google, which is not too hard to understand here with the context but it sounded like “glu-glu” or “guru-guru” to me. But so far everyone in the podcast speaks very clearly, and there are just a few words each episode that I don’t know, so it’s very nice for building confidence (which will be shattered in a thousand pieces with another podcast or movie but… you have to appreciate every win in this learning journey 
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Ep 9
I usually find the slow, unnatural talking speed of this podcast off-putting, but I didn’t mind it as much this time because the Edo period topic was interesting and I could catch some words I wasn’t familiar with before like 鐘 and 博物館.
I notice that my motivation to go through an episode varies wildly depending on how interested I am in a topic. I guess I also prefer when hosts show off their personality a bit more but welp, I will try to stick through.
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I can finally listen along with the club! I’d actually finished 8 episodes before the club started and wasn’t really interested in listening to them again.
Like others, I also found the 9th episode very interesting. I could pretty much understand everything they were talking about. I’ve already added the drama recommendation to my list. I’m excited to give it a try!
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