May 12 and 13
Yesterday Moon and I played more Dragon’s Quest. Our character confessed his sins to the priest in order to save the game, we pushed a boulder off of a dwarf whom it had fallen on, and we learned that we can’t read! Which I suppose is fair because our character is 6 years old…
This is also an accountability post because I have not yet read the chapter for Haikyuu book club, but I promise to skim it now and then maybe do a couple of pages of Spy x Family.
第7週間目の結果5月14日 (土) こよみのポスト
この週を反省したら、新しいAnki(暗記)の使い方をしました。英語無しの意味からのカードもできる、でも簡単じゃない。国語辞典はいつも説明をする、翻訳じゃない。しかし、当の単語は時々説明に見えます。完全自動できない、自らの僅かな仕業も必要です。手で書きたいなら、もっと難しい…
カードの表からヒントもあるですね…
時々、国語辞典からも(Kotobankからも)ググからも探せない(例えば：選ばれし者)、でも何とか Jisho.org (JMDict)にある。英語を避けれますか？私の説明書きだけも使いたくない…
Enough Japanese writing for now. I really want my production skills, whether monologue or dialogue, not to need a dictionary, not to be dictated by a dictionary, but rather only minimally use a dictionary. (Nonetheless, having a reference should still be good.)
There is also a question of whether expression is limited by the language, whether you aware of it or not.
Vocabulary hunting is now done using simply Akebi (Android app) => add to Anki, rather than Yomichan. Rather than making need-to-lookup list, the vocabulary is looked up on time. (I read on tablet / mobile, rather than PC.)
As for planning and reaching the goals, I have read Death Note required in this week; but I haven’t finished Yuru Camp as planned. I probably have read very little JoJo that I won’t count.
I can’t focus myself to read Night Cafe properly, and I think of eventually dropping out. However, based on an idea of Dragon Ball Super, I am starting to read this novelization.
I am currently somewhere around 80% of chapter 1, and I think it gives a pretty vivid imagery.
Furthermore, I have finished SPYxFAMILY vol.1 yesterday (with a cliffhanger, nonetheless…) - I have 1 more day to read (within 15 May), though I would probably eventually buy anyway, to join the book club.
Though I plan to read lots, being able to consume any Japanese text; there are without doubt benefits to joining the book clubs - self-reflection and learning from others. About self-reflection, it can indeed be done in self-reading as well.
I might hold back from continuing on to Yuru Camp vol.2, reflecting on places and activities more.
I forgot to upload yesterday, but we have a bunny living in our back yard and I got some pictures yesterday if anyone wants to see: [link]
Why does クールドジ男子 not have any fics yet. Why can’t I finish any of the ideas I have. I am working on one today, though, and I only barely held myself back from giving Mima a mole. Maybe in the beach one…
Anyway, I finally got myself to read ch 17! It’s from Igarashi’s POV, and we learn how he and Mima met! I wonder if Mima only asks him why he has to wait until he’s an adult to write because he has nothing to read (he’s already gone through all the books in the school library that he wants to read) or if he’d have encouraged him anyway lol. But it works out because Igarashi doesn’t want to write now because there’s no one to read any of it, but now here’s Mima, excited at the prospect of getting to read something. Anyway, in the present day, he’s got a fluffy black cat named Uni who likes to curl up into a ball lol they are very well-named. And adorable.
I played some side quests in ゼルダ無双 trying to get everyone up to Lv 16+ (though I ended up just getting them to Lv 12 and then spending rupees to get them the rest of the way lol) and then moved on to the next main-story challenge though did not finish it. I often have difficulty making out what the characters say when they’re selected/perform special attacks/etc., probably a combination of not having the vocabulary yet and normal speaking speed still being too fast for me, but I was easily able to understand what Urbosa says when she gets hit by a lightning attack: “この私に、雷だと?!” Even though it’s something simple, I still kinda feel accomplished.
打ち解ける (うちとける) [一, intransitive] to open one’s heart; to throw off reserve; to be frank
上京 (じょうきょう) [noun, する verb] proceeding to the capital (Tōkyō)
終焉 (しゅうえん) [noun] demise; end
戦 (いくさ) [noun] war; battle; campaign; fight. My first time seeing this reading!
支配 (しはい) [noun, する verb] domination; rule; control
鍛錬 (たんれん) [noun, する verb] toughening; disciplining; training
華麗 (かれい) [な-adjective] splendid; magnificent; gorgeous
挟撃 (きょうげき) [noun, する verb] pincher attack; pincher movement
A lot from ゼルダ無双 today!
This one might be a nice proposal to add to WaniKani (more than just 奈良, 神奈川). Such a fun word too.
May 13th (Calendar Post)
Bookclub friday~
からかい上手の高木さん => 16 pages (14 min)
それでも歩は寄せてくる => 24 pages (20 min)
シメジ シミュレーション => 12 pages (41 min)
ハピネス => 34 pages (15 min)
Flying Witch => 35 pages
A few fun panels from today’s reading:
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May 13 Home Post
Played some more Story of Seasons and ZTD today! Very different vibes 
I barely looked up anything today; maybe my threshold for lookups was just higher than usual, but I didn’t feel like I was missing anything so 
and it’s not like ZTD was holding back, there’s definitely weird science stuff as always lmao. So pretty good reading day all around, pretty chill!
I saw another series by the author of Happiness (perhaps the currently running one), and it starts with a… cold 
cat 
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Looks interesting, but I have enough waiting-to-be-read mangas (as well as I want to try something else).
I’ve been reading consistently every day, even if its just a little article. 
I picked up 「オタク侍女とギャル令嬢、乙女ゲームの世界にシブヤを作ります！」on a whim because I love Gyarus + Otome games. Finished the first chapter this morning & I love it! Having two protagonists is really cool and I like how the reality that they’re DEAD isn’t brushed over. It was actually really sad ): Can’t wait to read the next chapter
Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220514 
Tanuki Scroll XLIV: こじきのほこり 
Not much time today so just read today’s Edo tale.
Japanese found in the tall grass
乞食「こじき」ー Beggar; begging
I ended up not reading anything yesterday, unless you count some texts I got in Japanese. I was absolutely exhausted and went to bed early.
Today I read 41% → 47% of モテ薬. It had a “shocking” revelation that didn’t really wow me (2 of them actually) and the next chapter appears to be going back to the one sided conversation style. I think my problem with this book is that it’s just too long winded. I’m 100+ pages in now (almost 50% done!) and the plot has barely developed.
Thank you to everyone for the household word book suggestions! I appreciate it. I’ll look into them, though my 積読 pile is already quite big
Edit: Just realized I passed 50% of my yearly reading goal! 
5000 pages is the goal, I’m at 2510!
May 14th!
I read Chapter 7 of Yoru Cafe today. Still takes me ages to get through each chapter, but I’m starting to feel less intimidated by the amount of text, and less tired out by the time I finish. This week had a lot of cooking/kitchen vocabulary, which I already knew quite a bit of so that probably helped.
I ordered the first set of Level 1 Graded Readers last night!
I read the first four pages of “Hikoichi and the Living Umbrella”. NicoleRauch, you are right. This is turning out to be a good read! This also starts out with a Hikoichi being a person I don’t recognize from the other stories I’ve read about him. I can’t imagine him doing nothing but playing and losing all his money! I can’t wait to finish this story!
Very important word I just learned: 総ルビ “having furigana on all kanji in a document”
I learned it because 本好きの下剋上 now has a 総ルビ edition! This is very exciting since 本好き has been on my wishlist basically since the first time I ever visited amazon.jp, back before I had any clue about anything. So now I have 本好き in my cart, and since I’m waiting until I finish 夜カフェ2 to place the order, this motivated me to read 5 pages even though I’m very tired from work. (And they were good pages. )
@saturnine13 イェイ！ありがとう！ I love your profile picture.
Day 44 
告白 ~ 64-65%
(Also the first chapter of Happiness, vol.2 for the offshoot club and two chapters of 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん for the IBC. )
Book club reading mostly today, and only one percent of my main book (although I may still read some more before bed). I wasn’t about to join the Happiness offshoot club (not especially impressed by vampires, and the story was slow going), but there is one character that I really like, and she was staring at me from the cover of vol.2 - I just couldn’t resist her. 
(How can you not love her?)
Since I mentioned I’m not a vampire person, here’s a fun poll (I didn’t add the yokai option, or it would be unfair to the other monsters, yokai all the way!)
0 voters
From today’s vocabulary I like this one:
日常茶飯事 - everyday occurence (“everyday tea rice” )
werewolves? Or is this an undead poll? 
Aren’t werewolves undead? Not sure, but I think they can only be killed by silver bullets?
In (some) seriousness, there’s such a variety of monsters and fantasy creatures that it’s really hard to choose favourites (or even list them all), but zombies and vampires are in my opinion on two opposite sides of the spectrum, so a good dilemma to pose. Vampire movies couldn’t be more different than zombie movies, for example, and though I like the classics of both, vampires later evolved into a genre I don’t particularly enjoy, while I still have a soft spot for a good zombie. I know other people love vampires and can’t stand zombies. I would probably have added a “both” option, though, that would also be interesting…
Fun question! I like both (I just like horror!) in general but I leaned vampires, though when you mention more recent entries… I was leaning on older vampire works. And mostly films, for what it’s worth. Zombies are a great chance for impressive gross visual effects, while vampires (the kind I’m thinking of) have lush set designs and costumes. Slight preference for the latter, but both are cool. I think I just prefer vampires as creatures because there’s more room to make them themselves interesting – I’m thinking of something like Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre where he made Nosferatu himself an extremely pitiable creature. Gunn’s Ganja & Hess turns it into an addiction thing, etc. Zombie movies definitely can have good subtext (good old Dawn of the Dead consumerism) but the zombies themselves interest me more as just the overarching concept than the individual creatures, I guess? It’s all good.
The really important factor is that Nicolas Cage has, to my knowledge, only played a vampire. 
I read 10,000 characters today! Love those days where it hits 5 digits, need more of them. 
It started rough though. I left off still in the middle of the aforementioned slangy fight sort of sequence which threw a whole bunch of nonsense at me. For example, 四つ巴, which is not a word. It’s apparently based on 三つ巴 (an emblem of three comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle, but more crucially, a 3 way fight) then expanded to incorporate the extra person, heh. There was also the sentence, as a quick demonstration: “ああ、もうカオスっぷりがパない.” I got it with some internet lookups but that’s a mess of slang, the worst being パない which my dictionary couldn’t catch. It makes sense now that I see where it came from, though. The line doesn’t look so bad in isolation, but when surrounded by a ton of things written like that… y’know.
Another fun cultural reference today, that I’m happy to say I understood! They referenced, and used the line “月が綺麗ですね” . This is, if I understand correctly, a line from Natsume Sōseki himself, as the translation of “I love you” into Japanese. Sort of demonstrating how roundabout and contextual the language can be (particularly in his time, I’m sure).
Someone threw Inari! Just want you all to know he was rapidly rotating. If I could easily capture video instead, I would.
Good day overall! Today’s new word is 一肌脱ぐ (ひとはだぬぐ), “to pitch in and help.” It… sure doesn’t mean what the kanji made me expect, and the game played into that a bit for a joke too.
That’s a very good point, actually. A vampire is a sentient creature, and can be very interesting to explore (you name a great example). Zombies on the other hand, they’re not really individuals, they’re just the personification of a threat. In fact, this pandemic has often reminded me of a zombie outbreak in many respects. They also provide a fantastic opportunity for social commentary, accompanied by gross visual effects and (often) comedy. Vampires, on the other hand, often focus on style and (lately) romance, which really bores me.
Nicolas Cage has played a vampire? 
(I wonder if I never knew that or I just erased it from memory).
Speaking of “acting”, how fun would it be to act as an extra in a zombie movie? I have no ambition to ever appear on screen, but I think I’d love to briefly play the zombie.
