July 31st, 2025
- 161 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 41 reviews on Bunpro
- 4 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Book club: 葬送のフリーレン第５５話
- Manga: ささやくように恋を唄う第１話
- Game: Dear me, I was…
Catching up for the manga chapter I didn’t read yesterday ^^
I didn’t expect how exposition-heavy this chapter of Frieren would be, when I looked at the amount of text
ITS A FULL ON BOOK AT THIS POINT, but yeah, that was the chapter everyone was waiting for, nice that I was able to read until here in Japanese ^^
On the other hand, ささやくように恋を唄う was a manga that was on my radar for a while, and yeah, diet version of 気になってる人 xddd
Upsides: it used pretty easy Japanese and I was able to understand almost everything without needing to look up too many things, but I’m glad I did, because I learned a few important words that will leak into other Japanese reading for sure ^^
下駄箱 - げたばこ - shoe locker
一目ボレ - falling in love at the first sight, well it was really played out in this chapter xdd
And absolute banger quote from this chapter, もっとボレさせるから覚悟してね 
C:
Bunpro: finished the N2 grammar today once again, I like how on the nose the に値する grammar is xdd
But it’s used in standard register, so I can’t wait for them to use it in ささやくように。。。xddd
Also, two stories on Satori Reader I was reading came to an end,
枯れた木:
Short but peak fiction xdddd
It’s very memeworthy from somewhere like chapter 10 on, the ending delivered xddd
幸せの木:
The epilogue beat had a lot of PSAs about gay people’s living conditions in Japan, and yeah, we’re not free until everyone is free, so I hope Japanese gay people will be able to win their fight, but I’m probably not the target audience for those PSAs, I’m just happy 勝 got his bittersweet ending in the end ^^
And the most important one:
GUESS WHOS LEVEL 44 ON WANIKANI
Level 44 autounlocked 31 items and only 30 are necessary to level up, so I’ll just do the regular 15 lessons today and tomorrow and should be on track as per usual ^^
Anyway, nice day in terms of Japanese, I have one more thing but I’ll drop it in Life ^^
Life
(thats u btw)
Today, a new Arcsys game released, called 「Dear me, I was…」, it’s from the same people that did Another Code: Recollection last year. I was pretty reluctant to engage in it at first, knowing that I want to play stuff in Japanese and that I don’t have that much time, but it’s a game where almost everything is told through images and sound design, and the length of the game is 45 minutes, so I decided to give it a shot.
and. it. was. beautiful. oh my lord.
Switch 2 exclusive finally worth getting the console for xddd
On a more serious note, the protagonist was very relatable and the story definitely played the Class S beats that felt pretty nostalgic to me personally as well, the presentation felt really great, but there were a couple of moments throughout the middle chapters when I was preparing myself to go like, SIGHHHH, but then by the time the epilogue dropped, I haven’t dropped a single sigh and I managed to gasp instead ^^
I immediately started looking for stuff related to the game afterwards and found a tiny snippet of the target demographic for it:
it seems i might have grown into 女性 demographic xdd
I traced this statement to the announcement video of the people behind the game:
And yeah, easy to follow Japanese, nice to see the people that worked on it ^^
I probably should play Another Code in Japanese one day, I know I’ll love it as well ^^
Either way, by the time I finished this game I was left with such fuzzy feelings and I was really positively surprised by the direction where the story went, it could’ve stopped being special like three or four times, but each time the game made a conscious decision to pivot away from stereotypical storytelling and started feeling more like somebody holding a mirror in front of myself, so, ehhh. Being a woman in your late 20s, what a concept. 
Annyway aside from that I slept like 4 hours today and was really really tired and took two naps over the course of the day and I might not be able to easily fall asleep now xdd
The goal for the weekend is to regulate my sleeping cycle xddd
Fun day today anyway, I might have a friend at my place tomorrow, so see you tomorrow everyone!