Aah, there it is! @NicoleIsEnough 
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April 12th!
Today I read the ABBC assignment of Ruri Dragon, and also 2 chapters of Chi’s Sweet Home.
I’ve finished all my book club reading for this week, so I’m not sure what I’m going to read tomorrow. I still really want to try to read the light novels of Orange, while I still have the vocab and storyline of the manga in my head so maybe I’ll attempt that.
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Day 12: April 12th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ 
How much did I read?: 14 pages
How long did it take me?: 46 min
Woo! Didn’t drop the ball today xD I loved the little segment I read today, it was very entertaining - there were MANY penguins 
I adore this illustration of お姉さん because she looks like the queen of the penguins (which…I mean, she kind of is lol). I’m a little jealous, I would also like to be queen of the penguins 
We finally found out where the river behind the school goes Also I learned a new expression that I found interesting - 瓜二つ. Two melons in a pod 
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Haven’t posted for 3 days but still been reading.
10/4 66 pages シャドーハウス, 22 pages Spy Family (finished mission 34)
11/4 10 pages シャドーハウス (finished volume 8), 6 pages 古見さん (finished this week’s reading), 2 pages 夜カフェ
12/4 10 pages シャドーハウス, 4 pages 夜カフェ
I did well on my final day of travel home. Bit less reading since I arrived home but plodding on.
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April 12
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二ノ国白き聖灰の女王・港町ビッキー二
Hm, I don’t have much to say today. I feel like I’m reading the dialogue more smoothly than before and more sentences make sense. While I have been enjoying playing since the beginning, playing doesn’t feel as mentally exhausting anymore. I usually put on a Japanese podcast or grammar lesson during the parts between dialogue so that I don’t feel rushed to go through the story and can enjoy playing.
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Thank you for mentioning this. I immediately went and grabbed them up. I have the first couple of volumes in Japanese and now I’m probably going to binge this during the Tadoku challenge next month. 
Edit: Ah, the free trial ends on May 8th, so I’ll really have to binge.
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・４月１２日・
Apparently today was Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Day. Well, I’ve already got that down pat lol! (Although it’s “drop everything and read for 10-30 minutes,” not for most of the day, but.)
- アタック!! episode 34-36
- 52 pages of サマーサイダー, finishing ch 5 and reading all of ch 6, and leaving off on pg 312. Holy crap. I was wondering why the cover illustration for ch 5 was Miura and Mizu standing around a trapdoor with a crowbar. Not disappointed. Holy hell. Man, I wish I could finish the rest today; I’ve just got the 23-page epilogue left (though with the cliffhanger ch 6 ends on, it feels like it should be ch 7 lol)
Some vocab of note:
上等 (じょうとう) [interjection] bring it on!
藪蚊 (やぶか) [n.] striped mosquito; Aedes (genus of mosquitos)
原付 (げんつき) [n.] motorized two-wheeled vehicle with a displacement of less than 50cc; moped; scooter. Short for 原動機付自転車 (げんどうきつきじてんしゃ) (lit. “bicycle furnished with a motor”). The 付 in both can be spelled either with or without the okurigana, though without seems more common.
箍がはずれる (たががはずれる) [expression, 一] to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered, to lose one’s self control; to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint. 箍 are the hoops around a wooden barrel or bucket.
針の筵 (はりのむしろ) [n.] bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles
コンパス [n.] legs; step; gait
カマをかける [expression, 一] to trick someone into revealing the truth; to ask a leading question
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４月１２日
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Couldn’t stop reading chainsaw man today.
チェンサーマン１２ (Ch 101-103)
チェンサーマン１３ (Ch 104-111)
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They’re quick but fun reads! I always keep them on my Kindle just in case 
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April 11 & 12 Home Post
I continue to be less on my reading game than usual that’s what happens when I get invested in games that aren’t in Japanese oh no yesterday I started scoping out the next section for the Zero Escape club, and today I just did some reading for class.
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I thought the same So now that it reappeared, I can exchange it with @miwuc whenever I get to go to Paris the next time 
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L0 stories: ありますか？、赤ずきん、ばんごはん、ぼくはとってもいそがしい、かまくり、からすとみずさし、これなんに、ネズミみのすもう、にくじゃが、さむいひはおなべ、ひるごはん、おちゃをいれましょう、さるかに
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I started replaying Super Mario 64 (but on Switch) and I decided I might as well play it in Japanese for the little text there is. I lasted until the first textbox, the hiragana font was stupidly hard to read (just all over the place), so I… restarted in English. xD
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Days 11 and 12 Progress:
〆切前には百合が捗る 二巻 - 0.40% → 14.90%
スローループ 56話
Not too exciting of a couple of days as far as reading goes, unfortunately.
Getting to read my monthly Slow Loop chapter is always nice though. And chibi 恋 and ひより are both very cute.
Word of the Day: 波瀾万丈 - stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events. Composed of 波瀾 (disturbances and troubles) and 万丈 (congratulations!), I like the image of celebrating the end of one hell of a stormy and trouble journey.
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Weevil’s Home Post
こんにちは、皆さん。これは私の初めてのポーストです。
This may shock some people, but I have been learning Japanese on an off for around 15 years. This year, I am determined to improve my Kanji recognition and overall reading ability, so for this month I will be focusing on the 読み物 section of my current textbook, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. I will post here each day about my progress or any interesting words/other observations that I have.
I have never read any Japanese manga, but this is also an opportunity to start. So, I am hoping to read the Vinland Saga manga either online or through paper copy. Those will be my two reading materials for this month. Good luck everyone! <3
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13th april
i’ve taken the plunge, i’ve finally started 逆転検事! it’s going a lot smoother than i was expecting, i’m having a lot of fun. i’m about halfway through the first case, i think? took a while but i had to take a long break in the middle to do some other stuff so that might have prolonged how long it felt compared to how long it actually was.
words that stood out: 台無し (spoiled, messed up, coming to nothing), 被害者 (victim) and 被告人 (defendant) cos i read them too fast and confuse the two constantly, even they’ve only got one kanji in common and 権威 (authority, power, influence) which i believe turns up in wanikani but i’m mentioning cos the pixel font does not treat this word nicely.
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Apr 13, Thu of Week 3 of Spring Q2 2023
I listened to this one first, two days ago and yesterday. I missed comprehending the beginning part.
Trying out 青空 in Browsers on a tablet web browser. Doesn’t have normal context menu, dictionary or even Google Translate. Only Google Search. (And I can’t choose my search engine. Google, Search or not, is always auto-login.)
- うらら迷路帖 Vol.6 (58-100%)
Back to sleep again, but 合宿.
- うたわれるもの : 二人の白皇
Words of the day
- まずまず = passable; not so bad. While ますます is increasingly (益々).
- むざむざ = without resistance; easily
- ちまちま = small and neatly compact
- れっきとした = respectable / obvious; clear. Kanji form is 歴とした, but IME doesn’t suggest it. (The Kanji is usually read 歴.)
- いかにも = indeed; for sure = 如何にも
- かくかくしかじか = such and such = 斯く斯く + 然々
- なれっこ = getting used to; getting accustomed to = 慣れっこ
- がめつい = tightfisted; stingy = 抜け目ない
- あぶらげ = deep fried tofu (Abura-age - Wikipedia) / can also be deep-frying other materials = 油揚げ. One あ missing.
- ひっぺがす = to rip off = 引っ剥がす = 引き剥がす. Just how much sound can change.
- はためく = to flutter in the wind. Flapping ばたばた in the wind. Related words include ひらめく, 翻る and 靡く.
- ハモる = to say the same thing in unison. From ハーモニー (= harmony).
- ほっぽり出す = to throw out = 放り出す.
- 索る = to hunt down. Has Furigana. From 穴 + 刳る. Maybe not so important, but I find this a fun word not in Jisho / JMdict.
- おびき出す = to lure someone out = 誘き出す
- 疎ましい = unpleasant; disgusting. Feels like some ways like 疎む / 疎い, but I made a wrong guess.
- 実しやか = seems plausible
- 手管 = a trick; deception; coquetry
- 出店 = a food stall. Paired with 屋台 in context.
- 櫓 = a watchtower. Has Furigana.
- 検分 = inspection; examination
- 語り草 = a topic to talk about
- 不得手 = unskillfulness
- 耳朶 = earlobe. Also read 耳朶. Isn’t spoken and no Furigana.
- 瞠目 = stare in wonder
- 精進 = diligence; devotion
- 性急 = impatient; hasty
- 淡々 = uninterested
- 既視感 = déjà vu
- 神託 = a divine revelation; an oracle
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千里眼 = clairvoyance; second sight.
- 千里 is thousand Li (0.5 km). I thought of 千里馬.
- There is also 万里 from 万里の長城 (= the Great Wall of China).
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玉の輿 = a palanquin with treasure. From 玉の輿に乗る = to marry into a family of a rank.
- The second Kanji in 神輿.
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13/04/2023 
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I wanted to read よつばと today but for some reason mokuro doesnt work on this device (maybe because I changed the hard drive in my computer?). super upset about that because I was tired and I had a laid-out plan for reading sighh, migth have to look into it tomorow.
Anyways, for today, I read two chapters from Sakura and Suzuki. It was short, but it did have some difficult words.
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Ooooh! Hope you have fun! Not too huge on GK1 but GK2 might easily be my favorite game in the franchise (which is a surprise considering Shuu Takumi’s non-involvement in the game)
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