November 25th!
Today I read a chapter of Happiness, and then, conversely to what I said I was planning to do - I started playing Pokemon Violet in Japanese.
As expected, its taking me a long time to get anywhere in it, especially since I insist on looking at everything and talking to everybody. 
But I decided I’d be disappointed in myself if I didn’t at least TRY to play it in Japanese.
If I find I really don’t have the reading ability/stamina to enjoy playing it then I figure it wont take me too long to restart in English and replay up to however far I get.
So far so good though! Its slow going, with quite a lot of stopping to look up vocab but I’m having a lot of fun!