December 13th, 2025
- 116 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 8 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Manga: 銀の匙第１巻終わりまで
so epic i swear
I was clearing out my physical manga collection and I found one volume I bought for a book club a while back and read only bits and pieces of:
i do read manga much faster now, so I was wondering how would it be, and the answer is… it’s still really hard, but the manga is really funny, so you can just keep on vocalizing words, try to vibe-understanding of the kanjis, and some of that will stick with you ^^
Because of the series being set in a agrarian school, a lot of the humor in it is very slapstick and it doesn’t always land, but it’s always loud, and loud does make it at least remarkable xddd
On the other hand, I was looking through my Natively profile for 夢の端々, a manga I read just a few days ago, I read my Natively review for it and I even cross-referenced my post of it here:
…I remember absolutely nothing of this manga now that it’s been a few days, recollection is something I must practice too 
Anyway, I’m eyeing around Marumori for a while, don’t really want to commit to it yet, especially since I found the big Best Japanese Learning Tools 2025 Award Show 
by Autumn Skerritt and it’s a freaking amazing resource, Autumn went through all the language learning apps she found over the last two years and graded them, including some apps I haven’t heard of in the first place!
One thing she brought up is a script called Meikipop:
that works like Yomininja, but without the need of analyzing the screenshot, and I’m like UuUUUUuUuUuU, is this the future of me playing the video games???
Too early to say yet, but we’re about at holidays, so I’ll be looking around ^^
Either way, I’m continuing to realize that reading (visual) novels and reading podcasts are the only things that matter and everything else is just a distraction, so, sigh ^^
Life
Christmas markets! I promised a special post today C:
I took my mom all around Berlin to do some Christmas shopping and soak in the mood, and would you look at that, I just complained at monoculture going away and there’s this gigantic Avatar Fire and Ash poster now xddd
Probably will be seeing it before 2026 ^^
ACHTUNG HABIBIS ARE COMING TO HUG YOU
Today was the first time I ended up going to the Gendarmenmarkt, it’s central in Berlin and this is the only Christmas market for which you have to pay money for the entrance…
And I get it, there’s a lot of things for the price of the admission, even this corner sponsored by the European Union for some reason ^^
Each of the doors would have a Christmas greeting in the language of a specific country of the EU, and for example: Irish had greetings in Gaelic!
Everything was really prettily illuminated and there was a Christmas bear too ^^
A looot of DIY things, ornaments, clothes, MINION BULBS
They really are trying to get people to spend all of their money ^^
so, yyyy, i’D RATHER NOT EAT THE GERM PASTRY WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU xdddd
We ended up getting some Kinderpunsch and the ceramic cups that we didn’t give the deposit back for, so they’re in our collection now, my Christmas Market cup collection is growing ^^
On the same note, here comes a kürtőskalács! People in Czechia for some reason would call it a trdelník and claim that this is a Prague thing, but make no mistake, it’s a Hungarian thing 100% ^^
And, of course, sigh, Labubu sweep xddd
It’s on my tiny Christmas tree already xddd
And of course, the Rotes Rathaus market, this is one of my favorite ones ^^
There’s a guide from Melissa Byron’s independent blog on the Christmas Markets in Berlin, because it’s just HOURS to write about, there are so many cool things there ^^
We ended up seeing something like ten markets today alone starting at 1pm and finishing at 9pm, and all of them were really close, so, hey, it was really great ^^
I got myself one manga in German, one book in German, one book in English and at my place I have a manga in Japanese and a book in Japanese, and maybe I’ll find a manga in English too, the pre-Christmas goal might be to read one of the manga-book combos in three languages and see how I do in them!
Okay, one last tangent and I’m out.
Somebody made an entire sheet music for the whole Taylor Swift’s Life of a Showgirl album. Of every single track. Oh my Lord. xddd
See you from Poland tomorrow! ^^