I haven’t done bunpro but based on reading what other people say for ages, N2 and N1 grammar is getting into less common territory. Still important, but realistically at the volume of your current reading you aren’t coming across much of it, and grammar srs in that case is tough. I’d guess once you’re reading more if you revisit it then it will be a breeze!! The readathon is just right! Even if you just do an hour.
June 21st, 2025
- 162 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 51 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- 3h4m of Summer solstice marathon, a LOOOT of reading
Yeah, I had 70 reviews on Bunpro by the time I sat back to reviews, but I just skipped 19 of them and left them in the queue because they’d last too long xdd
I’ve spent a very long time reading Japanese today, though it’s still not as long as when me and my mom went on a car to Austria, maybe I’ll make up for it tomorrow, I don’t know ^^
I wasn’t stopping myself on a word if I didn’t understand it, but the craziest part of all of the reading bit is that they weren’t using almost any kanji beyond level 30 on WaniKani, they weren’t using almost any grammar beyond N3 on Bunpro, so what am I doing pretending that Japanese is so difficult xdd
I mean, if I wanted to follow actual stories, THEN it would be difficult, but for now I’m reading random chapters, so I have no idea what is happening most of the time regardless xdd
It was a very productive reading session today anyway ^^
Another one to follow late tomorrow ^^
Life
Had my breakfast at the bouldering gym today! They have some really nice things and I really enjoyed mine ^^
Got some tape around my fingers because I always bruise my hands really bad when I go bouldering, they helped a bit, but they helped me to create an image for the rest of the day as the most important part xdd
Took a bike and went to Rotes Rathaus for the day of the open doors and, uhh, politics contamination zone, help xddd
Politics contamination zone
There was a protest… counter protest for Iran in there, from the side of the people that don’t support the current Iranian government and want to topple it down, and I was so happy to receive a flag and a hat and to wave it around until I realized that something was off and I was like “wAIT A MINUTE” xddd
People at the Palestinian protest stopped me and explained what the implication of the flag was, and I was like "oOOOooOoH that isn’t a very helpful message to be spreading today, so I got rid of mine
Anyway, Rotes Rathaus, Day of the open doors!
There were a ton of people around Rotes Rathaus, music performances, exhibitions, and most importantly: water fountains, it was 29 degrees today xdd
I spoke to the people that asked to work for Berlin and trust me, I’d love to if they matched my salaries closer xddd
Also, there’s a new HoYoverse cafe in Berlin now!
So this is the part where the rest of the post is one big politics contamination zone xddd
Palestine demonstration and protest today...
…went with the girl from book club and yeah, was great adventure to get to meet a person and we were both really tired, but we managed to stay there for a long while, much longer than I expected to stay in xdd
At first, the march wasn’t allowed to be started for like, two hours, in a 29 degree heat, and talking to some people, there was a common conspiracy theory that police was simply trying to get people to be tired and get nauseous because of the scorching sun so that they would go back home and not participate in the demo. But we did, and we moved ahead!
The activist guy from work I mentioned on the Amazon Tower post also went together with us ^^
A lot of Palestinian chants for the Palestinian international solidarity,
an Irish block I went to and thanked them for being so much devoted to all of the liberation causes, also traided my good craics and that’s grands with them ^^
People have been having a lot of Palestine symbols on them, I only had a wristband of my own, but some were really pretty ^^
And yeah, thousands of people at the demo, easily, two or three people were detained by police officer and some people, including a certain Bidoof in there, chanted at their disapproval of what police is doing at the protests like this one xddd
Then the protest stopped at Friedrichstraße for an hour and we went out of the march, because we’ve already been scorched and sunburnt ^^
If anyone has seen this one, PLOX HELP
We went for chinese pulled noodles together and it was the 4th anniversary of the chain, so the restaurants were giving a free giveaway of shirts to commemorate… only when we arrived, shirts were out already xddd
And yeah, next chance to walk in the scorching sun like this, Christopher Street Day in late July in Berlin ^^
Definitely will be there!
3650kcal burnt today, 1710kcal as the base expenditure without physical activity.
Tomorrow, breakfast with the queer/trans girlies I mentioned last week, one girl is doing pancakes and I bought some fruits to put in tomorrow, sounds fun~
And after that, I’ll go back to the marathon to at least finish four hours on it, I might do a bit more though ^^
So, see you tomorrow!
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it’s crazy how big of a like farm the summer solstice marathon post is, and also that im supposed not to care about likes and do things for myself but also LIKES xddd
i also found the yesterday’s one funny going like “yeah we’re in the middle of the marathon right now, nobody is reading this right now”, just to find out malinkal once again liked the post IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MARATHON BEFORE ME GOING TO SLEEP xddddd
(i’m still behind the frieren book club xddd)
June 22nd, 2025
- 180 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 82 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- 7h8m of Summer Solstice marathon, plus a bit of reading afterwards to find some contexts behind some mangas, 26 chapters of manga today alone
- Misc: マリオカート ワールド because chill xdd
- Talking in German at friend’s flat today, not very long though xddd
yeah my today’s block of reviews was a disaster xddd
I want to do Bunpro’s N2 as quickly as possible because we’re fast approaching fast levels on WaniKani and I still haven’t figured out my approach for it: should I just do 30+ lessons on the day when a new level comes and do a level every 5 days, or should I split it over time? I don’t know, I won’t always have as much time as I do today.
So today’s review block, the usual stuff, took an hour and a half.
Luckily, the items I was struggling with on Bunpro are Ghost 2-4 now, which means I’ve already seen them and I probably know what to write to make it shut up, but it’s a very long block regardless and it is not sustainable. I don’t need to sustain it beyond the end of N2 at Bunpro xddd
And also Bunpro refreshed today in the middle of my reviews to add more reviews and I was like “aaaAAAaAAAAAA” xdd
It was a fun weekend in terms of Japanese, time to devote more attention back to German right now. It’s really cool how my German improves my Japanese, and my Japanese improves my German, though I seemingly struggle in the same thing with both: getting into the flow mode and coming up with responses on the fly.
Once I’ve read something in Japanese for half an hour, I’ll fly, once I’ve read something in German for five minutes, I’ll fly, ask me from the street and I’ll go like “eeeEeeEeeeeEeeE”
Also, Satori Reader felt suspiciously easy today, and I wonder is it because 幸せの木 got easier, or because I’ve improved the time ratio to mitrac seconds ratio over this marathon 
Life
Went out in the morning to buy some ingredients for the queer breakfast!
Everyone brought something, so it was very much crowdsourced ^^
I arrived at her flat first on time, and everyone else was dozens of minutes late
Since it was the very second time meeting that group of people, I didn’t even know what was the being-late etiquette, but as it turns out, 34 degrees outside is a strong deterrent to some people’s cycling ability.
not mine. xddd
Breakfast was great though!
I did experiment around and had some vegan pancakes with oatmeal, would recommend ^^
We talked about life, queerness, just everything coming to our minds, though the friend who was at the Palestine demo yesterday was really, really worn out xdd
Sorry xddd
The host needed to leave the flat to go to the gym pretty early, we’re meeting up again next Wednesday for oversharing, and I was like “whew, I can do the marathon now”, and got myself a bubble tea, cycled back home to escape the heat, and at my place the temperature did not increase above 22.5 degrees. WONDERFUL.
Spent hours upon hours reading Japanese in a single block xddd
It is my full time job now, except that I’m back to my full time job tomorrow and I’m writing a German exam next Thursday, Leben in Deutschland xddd
But yeah, yuri manga, I really wish the best for that genre and it does let me turn on my imagination and understand some allosexual tendencies of people…
…but anime (manga?) girls in yuri really need to step up their social skills game, or otherwise I’m going to burst out xddd
And as soon as I was done with marathon, I realized I haven’t had any dinner and that the time just disappeared, so cycled to the main station that was still open on the Sunday and open at 11pm and celebrated the marathon with hot chocolate ^^
Japanese classes tomorrow, will keep you updated!
Take care everyone and see you tomorrow ^^
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Haha that marathon gave you more than likes 
you’re going to ace that in about 10 minutes!
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Aside to Pembo:
Is that from the Reading Marathon?
Or have you been rowing, again?
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That’s from bouldering, it’s probably what bidoofs hands look like under the purple tape 
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Continuing Pembo side chat:
Oh! Since I sprained my wrist last week and couldn’t even turn on the water tap… I look forward to having a usable right arm again in the near future… (Color me 羨ましい)
It was fun roller skating last Sunday, though… Until I fell … And then I didn’t realize it was bad until much later that evening…
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Rowing hands look far worse than that…
Some (most) of the people I knew who rowed 10+ times a week, their hands literally looked diseased, or like they’d been in a punch up with a concrete slab. Genuinely didn’t know how they managed to go about daily life with them.
I believe the distribution of calluses and blisters and all that lovely stuff is a bit different with climbing, rowing it’s a bit more on the palms than the fingers depending on the type of rowing etc
You’re all welcome for these lovely mental images by the way, ill save you actual photos though
(And yes I did sense the word rowing like a moth to a flame and arrive instantly)
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Just wanted to say that you have very cool nails! 
And to wish you best of luck with your studies 
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yuri manga about a girl being insecure that no girl will want to have her because she has bouldering hands and the other girl that falls for her precisely because she has bouldering hands
japan stop hating on lean bodies challenge
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There’s a bit in bocchi about calloused hands
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What a cool big breakfast spread 
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actually having a bit in Bocchi is probably humanity good ending, there are so many bad anime tropes even the story description i wrote could be falling into that so maybe we need more Bocchi representation xdd
女の子らしいけど時々ボルダリングしたいから胼胝がいっぱい！！！
Fans call it “Onboru”, the anime adaptation premieres in the Winter 2027 season xddd
literally just give me frieren but this autistic girl just looks at every hill and for some reason feels the urge to climb each one of them, perfect plot xddd
June 23rd, 2025
- 109 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 59 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- 2h of Japanese classes
- Misc: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy sub:
dub: 
(Day 80 now!)
I share the sentiment of cognitive abilities having been decreased as a result of the after-marathon fatigue xdd
The good news is that it wasn’t to zero, and I could read some stuff on Google in the morning, so it’s not as if I’m completely reset xddd
But I got a bit nostalgic on WaniKani for the easier times, when 109 reviews was already plenty. Sigh, I’m gonna miss it xdd
I think my strategy for the fast levels is going to be to go not 5, but 6 days: split lesson blocks for kanji into two separate days so that I wouldn’t have to do 30-40 lessons a day, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. I know it’ll add more than half a month into my marathon, but will it make the marathon more sustainable?
Anyway, two days until level 40.
it do be like that sometimes
Today’s 幸せの木 bit was giving Gerson very strongly xdd
I like the snarkiness of the old man, might enjoy the story overall ^^
Japanese classes: we talked about Osaka Expo today and about the country of Uruguay, which is the furthest away country from Japan on the planet. We looked at their booth and talked about the fact that it’s perceived as small, but bright country, so go Uruguay! (Never been, hard to say what’s there xdd)
We also had a question of what other countries could use that label, and according to our group, it’s Taiwan, Austria and Slovenia xdd
And in Last Defense Academy, was trying to listen to Japanese dialogues without the subs to identify what’s happening first and a decent few lines were understandable to me, of course, the worst part is when you don’t hear one word right on the first try and then rest of the sentence collapses, but we’re working on this xddd
Life
Was catching up on the internet after the wild weekend and came across a creator that was doing StudyTube and study/productivity tips back in the day and I watched her back in 2020 when I was grinding WaniKani for some tips, and would you look at that xddd
it’s literally the worst kept secret YouTube June 21st 2025 I’ve seen xdd
She gives very strong lesbian vibes, but yeah, I think this video is really good at vocalizing internalized homophobia and learning to live with the fact that others will have a different plan for you than you yourself would have. Either way, was a really vulnerable and intimate video, so would recommend to everyone!
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is exactly the spreadsheet Kotaro Uchikoshi kind of a game where you roll your eyes because you know exactly that the promise of 100 endings is fully realized and you can already see where the endings are if you are playing the first one, and I really appreciate the fact the characters have agency and are not just there to be bullied and made fun of, so I really hope people end up buying the game and Tookyo Games doesn’t run bankrupt ^^
I’m team Tsubasa Kawana, she’s the mvp and I hope she gsts some spotlight in thE OTHER 99 ENDINGS because it seems like she wont get in this one xdddd
(who’s your fav @RebBlue??? xddd)
And yeah, it was scorching hot today, then a rainstorm came and wiped all the heat away and are we having monsoons in Germany all of the sudden??? xdd
Not many exciting updates aside from that, German classes tomorrow, see you tomorrow!
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Probably Aotsuki Eito, though there’s a couple others who could take the favourite sport depending on what happens when they get some focus. (What day are you on btw?)
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Casual drop
Nice
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June 24th, 2025
- 156 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 92 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Misc: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy sub: dub: (Day 83~)
- 3.5h of German classes
- Reviewing questions for Leben in Deutschland
Bunpro just messed me up today xddd
And knowing tomorrow I’ll probably do reviews at 2am or something, and that I’ll have 194 items on WaniKani and >70 on Bunpro just fills me up with dread, knowing today’s review block was 1h35m long xddd
Especially knowing my alarm is dead locked at 8:30am on Thursday and I can’t move it anyhow AND ALSO that I’m writing my Einbürgerungstest that day.
I can’t afford to study this much every day, especially not tomorrow, especially not on Thursday
Obligatory Bunpro making fun of me xdddd
Obligatory AAAA
Obligatory favorite grammar btw xdddd
I have no idea how to deal with the fact my review block has become unsustainable.
It’s still not as bad as it used to be, but it’s already started interfering with my life and activation cost of the reviews today felt unsurmountable.
I keep grasping at this impossible wall of 17 days to go
and I yearn for salvation tomorrow as much as I yearn for the sweet release of just yeeting Bunpro lessons away in 17 days for a long long time xdddd
You are witnessing a real time breakdown of a specimen of Bidoof species, send hugs and prayers to northwest Berlin xddd
German
Ah yeah, the topic for today has been POTATOS
As it turns out, there are like 1000 different dishes you can prepare for them, and sometimes the dishes are just “this is potato but cut in slices, that’s a new dish” xddd
Apparently, German people don’t like potatoes as much as other European countries do:
but it doesn’t stop them from having hundreds of names for the dishes anyway xddd
I think I’m mostly team rice because burritos and Indian and onigiris and sushi, but I admire the grindset of the German people xdd
I feel like a bit of a traitor to my nation knowing that Polish cuisine is very potato-dependent, but I’m not that big into potato dishes; though my mom can walk into McDonalds, order only fries, not elaborate on that, and feel stuffed for the rest of the day
I think my favorite potato thing is not even a potato thing, Süßkartoffelpommes, sweet potato fries 
Life
Got a new haircut today! Nothing too fancy, simply I’ve been having a week of bad hair days and decided to remedy it xdd
I also started doing adult things and Germany is known for its super hard water, so I wanted to deep clean my toilet today, I bought some Essigessenz:
and just went ham on it around the toilet bowl. The initial results have been really promising, I stuck a vinegar-stained piece of paper around the most difficult stains and I hope they’ll go away too, but the smell is to die for, or maybe it simply is deadly xddd
I wonder how to remove the smell afterwards, oh well xddd
Either way, see you tomorrow, probably very late, probably very fed up with Bunpro/WaniKani, probably level 40 xddd
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You got this 
Remember, one thing at a time 
and always eat up your potatoes 
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Me and you both, me and you both
(75% of mine is kanji writing practice at the moment which is the fun part though)
1h35 just on bunpro? Or on everything? If it’s just bunpro I would scream into my pillow and then stop doing it forever permanently
There’s something to be said about just pushing through, but if the feeling of unsustainability continues over and over than I usually have to relook at it again. Hoping that once you finish off N2 it feels easier again
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June 25th, 2025
- 149 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 68 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
Ahh, I didn’t end up going late today, so also the review block was a little bit more ordinary than usual. Only 1h15m today, which is what I needed to properly cELEBRATE THE FACT IM LEVEL 40 (100) ON WANIKANI NOW WOOO C:
There has been a content update on WaniKani recently and some of the words got shuffled in the earlier level, so my lessons for level 38 and 39 items will have to wait for a bit, but already added all the radicals and some kanji from level 40 into my review pile and the 10-day-per-level countdown is up and running ^^
YUYU today was trying to throw some shade at the colleagues and that they are not actual friends and I’m like >:[[[[[ xddd
But to be a little more vulnerable:
ウチとソト, friend circles rant #25435
I haven’t had much luck turning colleagues into true friends in the past: there have been periods where I was feeling like maaybe things were leaning into the right direction, and I even started keeping myself accountable and excited of being able to have friends who would be often right next to me through the virtue of being at work, but my sense of belonging is not very strongly correlated with the kind of values people that tend to work at my company seem to manifest, so there is often this magical moment where you have the <record scratch> and you realize that there’s both a values mismatch and fundamental disinterest of bridging the gap from both sides and it’s like, 
Having friends as adult is difficult enough, but looking towards ソト hoping to turn them into ウチ is a game I keep losing, it’s much easier to start a friendship with a person with a mutual expectation for them to be ウチ all along xdd
But now that Japanese reviews have crept in size and I spend way longer than I originally agreed to commit to:
luckily it’s on everything, but it’s still way more than “two pomodoros at most” i wanted to hold myself accountable with xdd
i’m just wondering if i try to fish for some ウチs inside of WaniKani ソトs. I think the correct term is 仲間, and that’s probably the healthiest approach that I can have for now, but wouldn’t it be cool if we all were just actual friends to one another
well, you double on some of the responsibilities of friends to me, but there’s a big part in terms of managing your expectations, of like, if you entrust your problems onto somebody else, and that somebody else is like “i barely know you”, then you’ll beat yourself up for both entrusting your hopes in the wrong person and for having the wrong idea about the kind of friendship you have towards a person
and also, different people in life serve different purposes, so no point putting unhealthy expectations on people that physically cannot match them, but they can radicalize you to study Japanese more if you needed to xddd
increasing vulnerability if it feels safe, huh
also, on the same note, don’t withhold your love., there’s too much hurt and too much pain in the world already, no point bottling up feelings trying to think that they aren’t that strong so why expose yourself to be vulnerable
Yes, I overdosed coffee today, yes, I couldn’t yap in person today, how do you know xdd
Also, 幸せの木 today is Savin’ Me from Nickelback xdddd
Life
So today’s book club got cancelled, but I got an invitation for a brunch for Saturday with the same people, so yup, we’re doing that! Should be cool C:
Right next to my local library there is a job center, and they’ve been teasing a job fair for a while, so on my way to the office today I decided to stop by them and find out how it looks like, and, I was really surprised
They even had like, an actual music performance and GAY STAIRS xddd
It was an actual fair with a lot of different stalls and a ton of freebies
…so I snagged some jellies from Deutsche Bahn and a lanyard from Lidl xddd
But nah, I’m in golden handcuffs, probably none of those listings would be appealing to me aside from the novelty aspect, so
It was fun to see an actual job fair happen, and the listings that have been posted though ^^
Also, Deltarune Chapter 3+4 just keeps growing on me all the time, so I bought the album from Bandcamp and decided to burn it on actual CDs ^^
Deltarune Chapter 3 has this fun gimmick where some of the lines of text are replaced with graphics in the dialogue boxes, so I copied those graphics to the track listing on the left ^^
and yeah, I just LOOOVE this track so much xddd
Either way, did some journaling today, some introspection (and realized that the introspection started screaming AAAAAA back at me, might overshare a different time xddd)
Tomorrow I have a big meeting of the Works Council, and then immediately after jumping on a bike to do my German naturalization test, and then immediately after jumping on a bike to do my C1 German classes, and then immediately after jumping on Japanese review block as usual xddd
I need to give myself a buffer to rot and fall apart every once in a while, that will not be tomorrow however xddd
See you tomorrow! ^^
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