Aug 23, Tue of Week 9 of Summer 
2022
I continued to watch more of HUNTER×HUNTER (up to Ep.19). I also read HUNTER×HUNTER Vol.3 as a companion. Having the anime club makes be reflect episodes more, so I typed my replies (but didn’t post them here). EKG-san got it to at least Ep.18, so I did too. VA aspect is also interesting, as voices are human’s, not character’s.
I also listened to かがみの孤城. I made a mistake thinking (for some reasons) that かがみの孤城 Ch.1 May has 3 tracks – it has 5. So I listened to two more, as well as 1/4 track of Ch.2 June.
I am not exactly sure if my listening has improved, but at least, maintenance mode of at least 30 minutes per day (with some misses in week 7) should keep me from forgetting the sound of vocabularies, and partly, breaking down of sentences. I still have to study grammar, and more vocabularies. I feel that understanding comes from focusing enough to hear vocabularies and sentence structures, with visual hints; which I am not satisfied with current understanding for the language alone. At least the hunger keeps me going on.
For anime, I watched with full attention, which waxes and wanes, and some rewinding, but there are limits. Audiobooks are harder, so less focus, but I rewind sometimes too.
I tried writing some sentences in my log topic, so that I don’t have to care about others typing Japanese or not. And rather than trying to write everyday, I planned for at least weekly publishing (with editing at any day). The problem isn’t really thinking in English first or not, but rather that I can think less in Japanese. Using a dictionary is OK, but often I can’t find a fitting word / phrase at all. I might need to gather more resources from specific reading. JJ dictionaries (prioritized in Yomichan) and JP interfaces (I am not hesitant to turn back to EN if necessary) may help. Impromptus might be a little different, but not yet.