October 17th
Final Fantasy XIV
Stardew Valley
Day 47: October 17
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!
How much did I read?: 11 pages
How long did it take me?: 2 hours 32 min (I wish I had more stamina to keep going)
I literally knew this was coming from so long ago, so why is it still making me emotional as heck 
Rin finally dropped the bombshell - he’s going to Australia, the day after the swim meet. To study swimming abroad, to become an Olympic swimmer. (Honestly, doesn’t this sound like the most ロマンチスト Rin thing ever, like this really makes me think of the Rin who wanted to launch a satellite into space for their 6th grade class project)
Ughhh, just the way that it got brought up Makoto, sweet Makoto, being like…you didn’t come to the informational meeting about middle school yesterday. Goodbye my heart. As soon as he said it, I knew we were here, and I just
And then Makoto’s reaction, like why didn’t you say anything? Rin’s been planning it for a long time, before he transferred to Iwatobi even, but he finally just got his acceptance confirmed yesterday. And Haru is pissed off, like why did you come here just to mess everything up and then leave two seconds later, how freaking dare you. And he wants to run away to the water, to escape all these feelings. And in that moment, he realizes that he really is escaping into the water, running away from the world and hiding his feelings that way. That he’s dependent on the water to deal with…life, basically. And that brings up a whole other set of feelings that idk how he’ll deal with yet because my brain ran out of steam right here. Ugh. This chapter is a lot so far.
Every time I think of Rin going to Australia I cannot. Breaking everyone’s hearts over here
Haru does not want to feel his feelings and I can relate
Oh absolutely! I really liked how popular he seemed to be among the villagers and how he tried to help everybody. That’s a welcome change from Fruits Basket with its constant fighting and shouting and cursing and demolishing the house 
Oct 16th (take two): Just had to continue a bit more before falling asleep - finished Demon Slayer chapter 1 and started chapter 2.
Oct 17th: The chapters are much shorter now, so I finished chapter 2 and read chapter 3.
Day XLVIII: この音とまれ！ pg.79-85 & ドライバーの日 
The page has been updated, it is now free until the 31st! (by the looks of it they’ve added two more volumes to the freeness, so now the first 5 are free). Read 6 pages today.
Today is Driver’s day… ドライバーの日! Which is a day to thank all the public service drivers like taxis, buses and truckers. There’s a comic with this one too!
It’s also フラフープの日 - hula hoop day - though it’s probably best not to do both at the same time.
~ New Words! ~
職業紹介 (しょくぎょうしょうかい) - Employment Agency
風靡 (ふうび) - Overwhelming. Don’t think I’ve seen that last kanji before either.
木造住宅 (もくぞうじゅうたく) - Wooden house / wood-framed house
Been a while since I made a summary post. I have been reading some more tanuki lately. It is a funny, comfy and a light read. Just what I wanted. There’s no stress, only tanuki.
Likely I’ll finish reading through volume 1 this week and then continue with volume 2. 
October 18th
Stardew Valley
I’ve been noticing that I’m getting much better at reading katakana. I’m grateful that video games are full of it and I have to read katakana words constantly; my recognition and speed have improved a lot.
Today I read 9 pages of よつば＆!, and 4 pages of 月刊少女野崎くん from the sample on bookwalker. I also checked out the sales and read a few pages here and there from the free mangas, just to make sure I was getting ones I might actually read.
I guess it’s pretty obvious that I make a lot of resolutions I don’t keep. 
But I don’t always make good resolutions, so I can’t keep them all!
Day 48: October 18
What did I read?: コウペンちゃん 
How much did I read?: 30 pages
How long did it take me?: 34 min
Oh my god, you guys 
Honestly, I was so not feeling it today, so I was just looking for something easy to read, but it turned out to be the best decision ever xD This book is…kind of picture book-ish in style, I guess. The first few pages are basically an adorable baby penguin saying “you’re doing amazing, sweetie” for completing basic life tasks, which is something I needed in my life right now xD And then it introduces some other characters - from the descriptions, I love them all already. But none more than
what is thiiiiiissssss
is this real life
Look
at
theeeemmmm
ahhhhhhh
Good words:
I’m still hanging in here but mostly just reading a few pages of こぐまのケーキ屋さん before bed each night, just to get the tick in the box. I’m working hybrid at the moment and the days in the office it’s actually a lot easier to fit in japanese study because I have 2 hours on the train. The days at home I’m trying to fit in exercising and feeding the cat and doing the laundry, and I end up doing the bare minimum of japanese. Trying to use this time to work out what’s going to be a realistic schedule for my studies over the next few months though. Trying to find a balance between SRS which is boring but good for me, and immersion, which is more fun but probably not massively effective without the SRS.
Day XLIX: この音とまれ！ pg. 85-89 & ガラクタお化け 
4 pages today!
And today’s 百物語 story about a priest staying a night in a temple (seems a lot of the folktales start this way) only to be awakened by the discarded items singing.
(The narrator guy’s singing is the best )
I’ve always liked the idea of old things once used coming to life at night.
~ New Words ~
ボロボロ - Worn out, ragged, crumbling, tattered, scruffy
七輪 (しちりん) - A charcoal brazier
ひしゃく (柄杓) - A ladle / scoop
ガラクタ (我楽多) - Junk, rubbish, odds and ends
ちゃがま (茶釜) - Teakettle that’s used in tea ceremonies.
You’ve found another one!! 
I never knew that darkness incarnate would be such a cute little bird
My day has been vastly improved 
Day 48:
日本語: I read a lot of 伯爵と妖精 20 (and finished it) plus some of パノラマ島綺譚.
Read-aloud: We read a chapter of ハイキュー.
中国語: I read 退货.
Oct 18th: Read Demon Slayer chapter 4 and 5.
Oct 19th: Read chapter 6 and 7, which means I finished vol. 1.
It was indeed a nice read! I think there is a fine balance between a story being told too curtly and being dragged out too much, and it hit that balance almost perfectly.
For the statistics: Altogether I found 187 words that I didn’t know before or that I didn’t recognize (i.e. didn’t know well enough) or that I recognized in context but wanted to practice a bit more. Added them to the big pile that is my Anki stack 
Now I just wonder how @chrisosaurus is doing in terms of wrist pain and in terms of reading struggles…
Sorry I didn’t have time to post but I read every day. I finished the second volume of 聲の形 which was free on bookwalker and started エデンの檻 volume 1 also free on bookwalker. Unfortunately I don’t have time to make a vocabulary list today.
October 19 aaaah, I don’t have any time to read. One more week, and I’ll probably lose Regular status too
・Honzuki 6. (61% → 62%)
What did I read:
Day 38 (10月 16日) 
暁のヨナ 、chapter 41, once alone, looking up vocabulary and then once at the bookclub read-aloud… it was such a funny session
Day 39 (10月 17日)
新完全マスター読解、 4 passages, 1hour
Day 40 (10月 18日)
暁のヨナ, chapter 42, vocabulary lookup, only did half of the chapter, because too sleepy…
this explanatory article on the expression 奇異の目にさらされる
Day 41 (10月 19日)
暁のヨナ, chapter 42, rest of the chapter, and continued with the words…
目をそらす めをそらす＝to look away; to avert one’s eyes
妄想 もうそう ＝wild idea；delusion
駆使する くしする ＝using freely；making full use of；
幼気な いたいけな ＝young and sweet;adorable;cute;tender
晒す さらす to expose;to sentence someone to public humiliation
奇異の目にさらされる きいのめにさらされる
＝to attract curious gazes; to be exposed to people’s curious gazes etc
目くるめく ＝to dazzle; to blind
on a side note, I caught a cold, I’ve been feeling terribly today and yesterday, reading was the last thing on my mind tbh
Day 49: October 19
What did I read?: コウペンちゃん
How much did I read?: 38 pages
How long did it take me?: 15 min
I’ve been in such a meh mood these past couple days D: Don’t know why…and I better get over it fast, I have so much I need to do but my apathy about it has reached new heights
This book is going fast though haha - it’s a pretty breezy read, which is what I need right now. And it’s very cute, of course :3
Good words:
Oh nooo don’t leave me D:
October 19th
Final Fantasy XIV
Lazy day today. Still practiced for several hours I just didn’t feel like adding many words today.
I find regular status impossible to maintain unless you contribute generously to the POLLs everyday ;-; lost mine many months ago. I still participate in the forums and read daily, though! I just don’t POLL any more. Currently I mostly keep up with the daily challenge, post updates, like everybody’s posts, and check new and followed threads.
:: TANUKIDATE 20211018 :: 
tiny lord of darkness <3
