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岸辺露伴(きしべろはん)(うご)かない 1

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I was tired as shit. Wake me up when September ends

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Sep 10, Sat of Week 11 of Summer :beach_umbrella: 2022

I read a little less this week, so half of HUNTER x HUNTER Vol.5, and a chapter of Death Note Vol.4.

However, I got my hands on making JP sub attached to video, so I now study more from subs.

Additionally, I added vocab and Kanji to Anki with Yomichan, and tagged appropriately. They are added first in “suspended” mode, until I create the front of the cards, and letting them be in quiz.

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Anyway, I’ll have to set the goals of Anki straight. Eventually, I want to be able to really listen. I don’t think hearing the sound of vocabularies are enough – I will need sentence audio snippets, inside Anki, or listening outside (which will be then, not quizzed).

On a side note, I am able to watch Death Note anime with JP sub quite well, without looking up; but it is hard to listen to audio alone sometimes.

Additionally, I now have a lot of images on Notion.

Notion


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September 9 :blossom: Home Post

Not a whole lot to report, just snuck in a page or so of 跡を消す like I’ve been doing. I spent a good part of today watching haikyuu with my roommate which was fun and study-adjacent so there’s that :man_shrugging:

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I finished HQ vol 21 and read 4 chapters of vol 22. Will a day come this month where I finish two in a day…? Well, we’ve still got two-thirds of it left, so there’s still time.

lmaooooo I usually call 2.43’s Haijima Kimichika “Chika” in my internal monologue even when what I just read called him Haijima/灰島, and when my eyes skimmed over the “current rotation” chart at the beginning of the second set in the Fukuroudani × Nekoma match and registered the 灰 in 灰羽, my brain automatically supplied “Chika.” (Ah, Chika’s starting in the front this set.) Nope, it’s Lev.

音駒部員:山本よく〝牽制〟なんて言葉知ってたな!
山本:漢字は書けないっスけど!!

Same.

Some vocab of note:

手がない [expression, い-adj.] having nothing one can do about something; having no options
喉から手が出る (のどからてがでる) [expression, 一] to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)
何らか (なんらか) [の-adj., adv.] some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort
器用貧乏 (きようびんぼう) [四字熟語, noun] jack of all trades, master of none

Somewhat off-topic, but a tumblr mutual found a “Haikyuu Sexiest Man Battle” (post-time-skip, not HS) poll on twitter and decided to play it himself. I did too, especially since I can’t fathom some of twitter’s choices, and for some reason I decided it would be easier to write their names in kanji since y’know it takes up less space. I cannot write on my laptop, I had to draw it into the entry field in Google Translate on my phone and send the screenshots to myself. I shoulda done initials. Still probably less annoying than entering text in PaintShop Pro though.

Anyway, so you can see my handwriting if ya want. And/or how I rank the guys whom twitter user Mira kaashifuls chose:

(Especially the way some people will draw mid-20s Tsukki? He’s so pretty. Akaashi too though… Some of these were very difficult choices.)

I definitely gotta work on balance, though; the 影 and 瀬 took about a million times each to get right lmao. And my 見s always look weird. I really like how the 岩 turned out, though. It’s pretty.

For shits and giggles, these are the twitter poll results:

Akaashi actually won against Semisemi by a huge margin, which I don’t get. They’re both so pretty! They shoulda been nearly tied! I nearly had to flip a coin to choose between them. How he then lost against Kuroo (and by a lot) is another of those things I can’t fathom, but okay. Iwa winning the whole thing is fair though. Though it’s a crime Daichi ain’t included. I had a crush on him (and his thighs) in 2016 which is still definitely there when I see 20s+ Daichi art, and I know a lot of other people did/do too. I wonder if he woulda won against Iwaizumi…

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:spiral_calendar: Day 71: September 9th :palm_tree: :coconut:

It’s Friday again, which means that after work I jump right into book club reading Splatoon 3!

spacer:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: からかい上手の高木さん Volume 8 (34% ➨ 44%)

spacer:sparkles: キラキラ100% Volume 3 (87% ➨ 95%)

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:tiger2: :books: The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220910 :fallen_leaf: :raccoon:

吾輩は狸である progress: 21.42% :full_moon:

Happy お月見!

:chestnut: Japanese found within the acorns :chestnut:

Meowords

無雑作「むぞうさ」ー Simple; easy; casual; easy-going (also: 無造作)
御世話「おせわ」ー Help; aid; assistance
気転「きてん」ー Tact; quick-wit (also: 機転)
喧嘩腰「けんかごし」ー Belligerent
八卦「はっけ」ー Eight trigrams; divination signs; fortune-telling
奏す「こうす」ー To report to the Emperor; to play (music instrument); to accomplish
金剛石「こんごうせき」ー Diamond
(though the furigana given here is just ダイヤ, like ダイヤモンド)
異彩「いさい」ー Conspicuousness (usually for colour); prominence; distinctiveness
驚愕「きょうがく」ー Astonishment; amazement; surprise; shock
「たが」ー Barrel hoop (sure I’ve seen this before)
憚る「はばかる」ー To hesitate; to be afraid of what others may think
御門違い「おかどちがい」ー Calling at the wrong house; barking up the wrong tree

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September 10th!

I did a lot of reading today!
First I read the first chapter of Volume 5 of Happiness. It was quite light on text so I read it pretty quickly abd decided to read something else too.
So I also read the next chapter of Yoru Cafe, which ended up taking me almost two hours - though that was partly because I had a few interruptions.

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:cake: :books: September 10 :books: :cake:
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夜カフェ :cake: chapter 4-5, so 30 pages

Well there we go. Spent some serious time reading today. I’m fully caught up with the 夜カフェ book club. I think there is only one more chapter than a break, which will be good because I have more catch up to do.

Although next will be to read week one of BBC’s new manga 耳をすませば. That way I can guilt free, start catch up of the clubs I am behind (basically, I want to get current with as many as possible as soon as possible, so I’m going from shortest-ish needed time commitment to catch up, to longest). After that, reading all of Orange volume 2 to catch up there. Volume 3 starts next weekend.

Lastly, I have 5 chapters of Loopers to catch up on, but at least the current chapter is probably getting lengthened to two weeks. Meaning I might be able to catch up… well either with this current chapter but more likely the one after.

Very specific schedule for sure. And when I finish Orange volume 2, new weeks will probably have started or be about to start for all my book clubs, so I’ll prioritize reading those first and then continue with catch up. ^^

Bit by bit I will get it done. I’ve only been talking about this for the past few weeks. (Sometimes you just need to gear up for something for a long time, amiright?)

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I finished HQ vol 22 and the first chapter of vol 23. 200 chapters down! I completely forgot about Yaku getting hurt until Lev turned around to happily show off to him after his successful spike. Ugh, first Daichi, then Tsukki, and now Yaku. Why do you keep doing this to me, Furudate-sensei. (No, but Tsukki going back into the game after having his pinky wrenched hard enough that the skin tore and it bled?? Babe, you need to be taking pain meds and resting, not finishing the match, even if y’all are in the latter half of the final set when you get back.)

Okay I remember not liking Nohebi from the anime, and yeah that definitely hasn’t changed. But I like Kuguri so far, though granted there hasn’t been any focus on him yet since before the match. And I find it ironic that the character whose name sounds similar to 拾う, Nohebi’s 広尾, is a middle blocker, when they mainly don’t participate in receives lol. (I like him so far too, or at least I don’t dislike him. But we’ll see if my impression of either of them changes as the match wears on.)

Some vocab of note:

背水の陣 (はいすいのじん) [expression] fighting with one’s back to the wall; last stand
差出人 (さしだしにん) [noun] sender (e.g. of mail)
脱臼 (だっきゅう) [noun, する verb] dislocation. I scrolled through the compounds 臼 is used in and this is literally the only one where I can’t see how “mortar” applies.
轢く (ひく) [他カ五] to run over (as with a vehicle); to knock down
しくじる [自ラ五] to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to screw up
かぶる [他ラ五] to be similar. This is the same かぶる as 被る, “to wear (on one’s head).”
全身全霊 (ぜんしんぜんれい) [四字熟語, noun] complete devotion; body and soul; one’s best
面倒見がいい (めんどうみがいい) [expression, よい adj.] very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded

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September 10 :blossom: Home Post

Bare minimum kinda day unfortunately, just snuck a bit of 跡を消す before bed. I wanna pick up stein’s;gate again, I think getting sucked into another VN is what I need :joy:

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岸辺露伴(きしべろはん)(うご)かない 1

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Hey same story as yesterday- I was tired as shit. Wake me up when September ends

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Sep 11, Sun of Week 11 of Summer :beach_umbrella: 2022

I finished Happiness Vol.5 in about an hour. I didn’t look up much, even if I didn’t restrict myself from looking up in a dictionary. I simply don’t need to.

The suspense is nice, but I don’t feel I need to continue too further than the club, for now.

Finished reading HUNTER x HUNTER Vol.5 just now, and kept confusing カギ (with ガキ). It’s a little further than my current anime watching.

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I had a similar thing when reading kindaichi. Tbf they used both in the text quickly after another.

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:tiger2: :books: The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220911 :fallen_leaf: :raccoon:

吾輩は狸である progress: 22.38% :raccoon:

Found a tanuki in the wild:
タヌキだよ

:chestnut: Japanese found within the acorns :chestnut:

Meowords

譫語「せんご」ー Talking in a delirium
千鳥「ちどり」ー Plover (bird)

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September 11th

Today I read the next chapter of Teasing Master Takagi-san and then finished Volume 4 of Mitsuboshi Colors.
Both were cute, but Mitsuboshi Colors was especially funny this week. I kept laughing every few panels and distracting my husband :grin:

(Home Post)

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Home post :bookmark: September :books:

Sep 9: Spice & Wolf (16 → 17%)
Sep 10: Spice & Wolf (17 → 18%)
Sep 11: Spice & Wolf (18 → 20%) + Loopers part 9 of youtube playlist

So I finished week 2 of spicy wolf book club :eyes: Now I can check out thread :3
(I might have yet to check out Honzuki thread since I finished book 10? :thinking: )

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September 9-11 :heavy_check_mark: :ocean:

Tugumi, chapters 11 and 12 (completed :tada:)
Grammar :いうまでもない, 以下、以外, いかなる

Finished Tugumi. I have mixed feelings about it. I sort of expected the ending, but it didn’t satisfy me (although I’m not sure what would). I did enjoy the journey, though. Some of the narrator’s descriptions felt as if they were taken from my own memories, some of her observations seemed like my own thoughts. I read Kitchen so many years ago, I remember nothing at all from the plot (there was a beach scene I think? That’s as far as my memory goes). What I do remember, however, was that again, even if I had little in common with the characters or their circumstances, they felt as intimately familiar as Maria did in this book. There’s something about the way Yoshimoto writes that just resonates with me, I suppose. Still, the book as a whole felt a little underwhelming - and included a chapter I would prefer not to have read, even though it was important to the plot. But that’s neither here nor there, and has more to do with my own sensitivities.

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:heartbeat: :books: September 11 :books: :heartbeat:
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耳をすませば :heartbeat: page 0 → 30 (30 pages)

When in doubt, start a new book? BBC just started a new manga that I planned to read along with, as I mentioned yesterday. I think this is probably the easiest read I’ve had in a while/ever. Less than 1 look up per page, actually probably only one lookup every few pages. I don’t think I’ve read anything this easy.

That was surprising and nice. I look forward to having that easy read every week from now. Hopefully, it doesn’t have a difficulty spike later. I quite enjoyed being able to only look something up every so often. 夜カフェ would probably fall close to this low difficulty if it had less onomatopoeia that really helps give life to the text. But alas it does not.

So I think the difficulty of the clubs I’m in go 耳をすませば → 夜カフェ → Orange → ルーパーズ. Although emotionally Orange is definitely the one pulling the heartstrings the strongest and the most often.

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:spiral_calendar: Day 72: September 10th :volleyball: :sun_with_face:

spacer:sparkles: キラキラ100% Volume 3 (95% ➨ 100%)

spacer:plunger: スーパーマリオくん Volume 1 (74% ➨ 79%)

I’ve reached my 2021 number of manga volumes read (62 volumes) as I’ve completed my 62nd volume for this year. However, five of those from last year were omnibus (300 to 350 pages) releases, and some of this year’s were short volumes (around 140 to 150 pages), so if I tracked by page count I’d probably find I’m not there just yet.

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岸辺露伴(きしべろはん)(うご)かない 1

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Read much more this time. There’s something I love about Rohan’s asshole energy. “Woe is me, I had to sell off my possessions, even my Sailor Moon figs. I don’t have a place to work or even a desk, I’m staying at a high schooler’s house.” (don’t feel bad for him, there are minimal steps he could have taken to prevent this, including accepting help.) “All I have is a mountain and people are offering money to develop it into a resort (or build a road to it, I can’t quite tell).” Editor: “you only have a mountain that you bought for investment and you won’t sell it?” Rohan: “yes.” Confusion shows on editor’s face. Rohan: “Oi oi oi oi” What an obnoxious jerk.

This is probably one of my favorite Rohan spinoff stories, but I like the ideas in most of them. The beginning was a bit tedious to read (I blame Rohan), but it’s otherwise a much smoother and pleasant read than The Confessional.

I’m looking forward to the next story because it has Izumi as Rohan’s editor and whatever her flaws, I adore her. The last story left in volume 1 is the only one in this volume that hasn’t been animated or made into a live action. It’s about Rohan and Tonio fishing. I want to finish both stories today, but we’ll see how it goes.

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