November 11th, 2025
- 183 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 11 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Podcast: 50m of JELLY JELLY RADIO
- Manga: ゆるキャン△第１話
- Podcast: Metanoia: meine depression und ich; an Gott zu glauben verändert nicht direkt lebel
- Podcast: Reise nach Japan! Japan-Türchen 1-8 & 24
- Comic: Her Tale of Shim Chong
- B1-Prüfung, alle 4 Teilen
slooowly keep coming
i sink in my sofa when i’m left to my own accords and then the temptation to be able to scrape one more domain takes over xddd
Japanese manga storeplaces
K-Manga is the fastest to scrape so far, I’m not rate-limited by CDN as fast, but comes with worse quality than cmoa, so I’ll probably default to cmoa for my higher quality dumps.
Reason being, the K-Manga DRM is too hard for me to overcome but the taking screenshots of canvas is still doable. With cmoa, intercepting the fetches and then locating a window method to run the fetches through a descrambler was possible, which means that cmoa probably is as close to the native quality as possible, and K-Manga, Bookwalker and Amazon are just lossy copies.
At the same time though, eBookJapan remains my absolute archnemesis and I looked at the Web Assembly module today again and I was like “xd”
i can’t even think of a way how to programmatically trigger a click event on the canvas to advance the page on eBookJapan, I’m sure it’s doable, but im just so over the tainted canvases, iframe, cross-origin requests, attempts to monkey-patch the WASM module, it’s the best DRM I’ve ever seen in my life and I applaud them so hard…
…as I download the same content from cmoa anyway 
iTS A BIT MORE OF A PRIDE THING CMON xddd
Aaanyway, I passed my final kanji on WaniKani today, which means this lesson count is now final!
I mean, there will be content updates along the way ^^
But what this means is that I’ll still have a steady stream of new lessons until January, even though the lessons will become easier as the time goes on because I’ll get to them when the kanji already are in Enlightened or something ^^
Also, I had the mooost important lesson vocab today ^^
And as I promised, this wasn’t a very reading-friendly day, but hey, maybe staring at the same characters on comic.k-manga.jp counts xddd
German
Just a special because today I Did Study German (It Doesn’t Happen Often) xddd
I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again: I’m so angry German comes to me so much faster than Japanese and I’m equally as angry that I don’t care about learning it as much, if I spent 1/4th of my energy that I spend on Japanese on learning German instead, I’d be flying with German now xddd
But uuuhhh, the comic got me good ^^
For translation, a buddhist priest tells the protagonist that if she prays enough, she might be reborn as a man in the next life, and I’m like “OH NO YOU DID NOT SAY THAT” xddd
As for the podcasts I was listening to today, I was trying to get myself pumped for the German exam today and it was really annoying to me that I understood 99.5% of the individual words that were being said and 99.9% of all of the context, but yet still I haven’t found the things I’d be interested in listening to in German xddd
Metanoia is the one I found through a solo travel through Japan/Korea podcast. Back then, she made a pretty neat podcast for the first 30 minutes buuuut then she started mentioning Christian faith and how much believing in God helped her out in life, and as a person born and raised in the Catholic faith who since then transitioned away, I was like “mhm, yes, of course, sure” ^^
The episode about depression also mentioned how grateful she is for the fact that each panic attack brings her closer to her faith and I’m like “yeeah, you do you”, probably can’t relate ^^
I desperately need better podcasts in German xddd
As for the Reise nach Japan!, it’s a pair of travellers who made an advent calendar where each day they recorded a 3-minute long podcast attempting to answer a question about their many travels to Japan, and they never do, because the answers are always “oh yeah, my favorite onsen in Japan is EVERY onsen in Japan!” or “the best place to visit in Japan in the winter is EVERY place in Japan in the winter”, something to that extent ^^
They elaborate on things in more detail, but still, sigh xdd
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German Exam (B1 telc)
It was composed of four parts, reading, listening, writing and speaking, and let me tell you, going for B1 could’ve been a mistake xdd
Reading was the first part, which was 90 minutes long. I finished the section in 25 minutes and thrn I wasn’t allowed out of the room out of a fear of aiding the others. So I just sat in there. In silence. For 65 minutes. Waiting for the reading part to end
During listening, the exam coordinator was collecting our IDs and talked to me longer over two of the questions
that you cannot pause
and you cannot listen to again.
i’m still probably going to pass, but I won’t forgive those missing points xdddd
And writing is where I actually got to, I thiNKKKK, flex my skills, we had an informal letter and I just threw "ja"s and "doch"s in the middle of the sentences everywhere, I think I did pretty well on that one ^^
And then the speaking section and there was a small presentation to prepare… except that as soon as we finished preparing it, they just wanted for us to have a conversation as two students rather than deliver the presentation anyway ^^
I was speaking with a person from Vietnam and I did ask him a couple questions about the country, but there was some real disparity between the German levels between us, so I feel like I didn’t learn much from him, my part of the conversation was pretty spontaneous and very rambly, so I’d be horribly surprised if I didn’t pass B1 at the speaking part ^^
Overall, five hours of my life wasted on this exam, but I think I did pretty well, hopefully that’ll break the streak of me being very unlucky with taking exams in general, I need some luck for JLPT ^^
Life
OYE THATS ME IM THE JUDGMENTAL ONE :DDDDD
One amazing thing about living in Berlin is that you get banger quotes one after another everywhere as you keep cycling xddd
Unironically I have to get better at that ^^
And yeah, Alexanderplatz is preparing its Christmas Market already! Some of the markets should be out as early as this weekend, hopefully C:
You know we’re getting close to Christmas because Das Nein-Horn (The UniNOrn) is back, fun for the whole family xddd
I still haven’t seen the show after I posted about it a few months ago, so maybe this time???