Weekly Report
01/05/2026-01/11/2026
what i need rn tbh
Weekly Goals 
WaniKani Lvl 15 
Finished Bunpro N3 Grammar
Listened to 475/420 minutes 
Read 6/7 days 
Wrote 2/3 LangCorrect posts 
(see below)
Solved 66 of the LeetCode 75
Library Log 
After my last report, I started 少女終末旅行. I’ve finished three volumes so far, leaving me at a clean midpoint on the way to finishing it this coming week!
I read that the mangaka, Tsukumizu, took influence from Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!, and having read the latter a few years ago it comes through clear in the use of megastructure as setting:
I read once in some paper or another how megastructure fiction (which is something of an obsession of mine) is characterized by an inversion, or you might say completion, of the typical relationship between environment and structure; where machinery, construction, and the city as an organism are typically incursions into the environment and raised within and against it (not necessarily adversarially, but at least oppositionally), in a megastructure the construction becomes the environment. Consider the cliche slashing of jungle with machete, and replace it with navigating alleys and buildings that predate you by eons. Instead of carving out a living in some mythical pure wild, you survive in the infrastructural palimpsests of civilizations past. So much for the state of “nature”, yeah? That’s exactly how Yuuri and Chito get by here.
They make for a cute pair, and I love their affectionate dynamic:
What else can you do at the end of all things besides make merry with the one person closest to you in the universe? It’s very sweet. And the writing is pleasantly meditative, no less than I would expect from the same person who wrote Shimeji Simulation. I will say that it’s been my most difficult read so far, because the vocabulary tends into the technical and the dialogue gets pretty abstract at times. Manga is easiest to read when what’s being said is clearly describing what’s going on in the images, but that’s a rudimentary level of engagement! The challenge has slowed me down to just half a volume a day… I really felt it when Chito said this:
like so true girl i think so too
Reflections 
You will notice that this is the first week I didn’t meet my goals, though I was very close. Yesterday I met up with a cousin I hadn’t seen in almost two years and the full-day outing crowded out my time. It was fun but it meant just narrowly missing my reading and writing quotas!
Still, I’m granting myself a pass for writing at least, because I’ve started including little Japanese snippets in my Letterboxd reviews whenever I watch a Japanese movie. The two reviews I wrote last week added up to four sentences, which isn’t much less than what I would typically write on LangCorrect. We’ll say I almost technically passed 
I was also distracted over the course of the week, because I’ve just gotten into LeetCode and I decided to take on a course of 75 problems as a trial by fire. I was optimistic at first about solving them all but I didn’t quite make it! I’m close enough to be quite pleased with my progress though, and it’s only a matter of a couple more days before I can vanquish that particular brainworm.
Anyway, I’m gonna try to give myself grace with this one and just lock in for the coming week. I’m also about to finish Bunpro’s N4 Vocab deck, so possibly this weekend I’ll take a practice N4 exam—a major milestone if I do.
For Next Week… 
Finish 少女終末旅行, finish the LeetCode 75, meet my weekly goals this time!
…and take a practice N4 exam…? stay tuned
POTW 
