I’m going to jump in on this! I don’t have a goal of what I want to finish beyond reading a little bit every day. I’m moving at the end of July so I’ll cut it off early, but this seems like a good time to start a tiny habit. I’m wondering if I could include visual novels or more story-based video games… 
Goals
- Get through Hatoful Boyfriend. I’ve played it in English, but the birds + school + murder mystery vocabulary are interesting to me. It’s also not terribly terribly long like most other things I like.
- next ???
Log
June:
1st: 
2nd: ok I technically did this after midnight and read for all of two minutes but we count that.
3rd: hatoful boyfriend continues
4th: another “i did this past midnight for about five minutes” i’m almost through the hatoful boyfriend prologue
5th: ok started before midnight and went till midnight thirty. the reading is very slow going because though i know like… all but one or two words per sentence, putting all of the grammar together in my head takes a while. and usually the one or two words I don’t know provide all the context for the sentence.
6th: I started at 10 PM instead of midnight, praise be. Got through two whole character introductions, so just one more and then I’m done with the prologue… good lord this takes forever.
7th: FINALLY FINISHED THE CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS PRAISE BE… okosan I will fight you at dawn, you complicated kanji user you.
8th: I got to join a school club today. I’m not sure if I’m understanding more because I know school vocabulary or because I took my sweet sweet time translating.
9th: I did it… I think I am getting a bit faster? I’m going to try to do one-two scenes at least a day until I get to the fun twist.
10th: I sure picked the library bird first huh… Anyway, I got through the school trip and the first half of the sports festival so we are moving. I think my first run through of this game in English took me under an hour and that comparison is pretty funny lol
11th: I got through the sports festival, tanabata, getting a test back, two math classes, and halfway through a bird swimming lesson that has me baffled beyond the normal level of bafflement (they’re like… pigeons dude how are they supposed to swim…)
12th: I went to a secondhand bookstore today and picked up an easy book and a hard one. I also spent a good hour just walking around and reading summaries or looking through books. Did more hatoful! Got through the first term!!! I also started Buddy Mission Bond which isn’t like, entirely in-line with this challenge but oh my god I’m in love. The high drama buddy cop movie like… beautiful.
13th: Today was a bit of a hatoful slog, started the summer vacation content which like… isn’t entirely necessary for the story and knowing that made it hard to push through. I also was packing boxes of stuff all Sunday and trying to navigate the Japanese postal system for shipping stuff abroad, so my brain just did not want to do it.
14th: Some days you work hard, and some days you read for thirty minutes just to not kill your reading streak! I got through summer vacation because I stayed home all summer, didn’t get a job, and I’m going for the ghost bird so no festival date for me. Honestly, how depressing this route looks from the outside lol, poor human girl all alone.
15th: I am so tired… I’ve been writing or working all day, took a thirty minute break for birds. Started the second term and will hopefully get my sad library bird soon. I really like being able to break down different patterns of speech
16th: I did about five minutes today and that’s it. I’m exhausted again today for some reason, but at least I did it.
17th: here
18th: FINISHED NAGEKI ROUTE
19th: here
20th: here
21st: I went to a doctor in a far-away town and ended up driving for like four hours today… Ended up reading a book in English instead, but found five minutes for another ten pages of 夜は猫といっしょ. it’s very cute… also dang learning Japanese is going to be so much harder when I don’t have constant immersion
22: cute cat manga
23: cute cat manga
24: cute cat manga
25: cute cat manga finish!!
26 
do kumon worksheets count… no. Not particularly.
27 I finished an English book but sure didn’t read any Japanese today
28 tests all day and long logistic discussions in Japanese tired me ouuuuut. does reading koto music count? no? Alas
29 but dude I taught multiple whole lessons in Japanese and had to do a ton of research for this so like, it kind of counts
30: イカキング my beloved you are too funny to me and got me back to reading at least short news articles
JULY
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