I love survival horror, so slipping in someone playing one of those was fun. 弾薬少ない indeed. Still adding in Ghost Trick on the side too – I realized I was a bit mistaken about the total number of chapters so it’s taking longer than expected. Still could just be a few more days or something if I get enough energy. I’m up to 11 now and really enjoying it! A few sections were slightly annoying (like that prison escape), but it’s worth it.
Good to know, thanks! I think at this point I’m most likely going to just seek out the Japanese sometime, but still, thanks. My wife might want to try it out with the patch; she enjoys the series a lot too. The chance of something in this series being better than the 2 Great Ace Attorney games excites me quite a bit…
2 chapters of 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (Vol 2 Ch. 14 and 15) - ~20 pages
Page 109 of １日１０分初級から始める読解１２０
A few Tobira entries
Yesterday was more of a listening day than reading for me, as I was out most of the day, but I managed to squeeze some reading before bed. Kiyo in Kyoto (Maiko-san chi no makanai-san) is quite easy to read and the story is light and pleasant, so I keep in on my bed side table. The chapters are short, so I ended up reading 2 before I noticed it.
7月8日 (土)
Ouran - 9 pages (Ch 3 part 1) あん - 3 pages (Ch 5) aDoBJG: な and など
1 chapter of 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (Vol 2 Ch. 16) - ~10 pages
Page 110 of １日１０分初級から始める読解１２０
A few Tobira entries
I tend to have some more time on Saturday morning’s to catch up, and I’m glad I advance a bit on Ouran, as I’m behind already. Also got started on the reading of あん for this week. Hoping to advance a bit more on Ouran tomorrow, and maybe some grammar. Perhaps if I have time, I’ll also start on this week’s コンビニ人間.
Year first, with the “units” kanji after the number same as for month and day, e.g. 2004年3月10日. You can also write the numbers in kanji, or use an era date (e.g. 昭和7年 instead of 1932年) if you like.
There was a bit of repeated text from previous weeks before I decided to skip but I did two puzzle rooms so eh I’m sure it evens out anyways so I’ll keep the count as is.
July 2-7
I was busy playing Final Fantasy XVI, if anyone here wonders I played english with japanese audio. Aside from that I was busy doing some things in real life and forgot posting here. But of course I read every day mostly manga magazines and a little bit Parasite Eve novel.
In August I will probably be pretty busy and I don’t know how much I will be able to read then.
11995 pages read
Unfortunately I forgot about Tanabata. Now my wishes don’t come true.
I’ve never been so concentrated while reading on the bus to work. Even at the thought of new bus driver might drive the wrong way like the other one did that one time, I was too busy reading to look at my surroundings. …I might binge Marriage for a bit. Gomen SM club, I’ll neglect you for a bit more.
Kiki
This is getting really hard again because I’m falling behind with my vocab because I changed it to learn by frequency and not by chronological appearance in the text. I think it was something about things a witch learns, like making medicine and flying on a broom.
Chugging along through さくらいろ at the usual pace, bringing us to page 239, the end of part 6, and 81% finished! Just one chapter left to go! Also read a couple of pages of 名探偵コナン vol1 and the first page of Harry Potter in Japanese - not sure if I’ll continue that one at this point, but maybe if my next books don’t come by the time I finish this one I’ll take a proper crack at it. Honestly, I should read more manga, it’s a great way to dabble in different genres and get exposure to a wider range of vocab, but I just…love prose lol even if it takes much longer to get through.
today's vocab
加勢（かせい）- reinforcements, assistance
楓糖（ふうとう）- maple syrup
ぶっきらぼう - curt, blunt
照明（しょうめい）- illumination (used in the context of stage/arena lighting here)
しどろもどろ - confused, disordered
Seasons was about 小暑 morning glories or 朝顔 in Japanese. They came from China as seeds in the Nara era and were originally used as medicine. Also did you know an alternative name of the princess in the 七夕 story is 朝顔姫?
I didn’t realize this was the last bit of main story line for Ouran . It feels weird to think I’ll be done with the volume next week. I’m hoping to come across the whole series next time I go to the city, since I’m going to a different one this time. If I don’t find it then, I’ll order online from BOOKOFF.
Wow. I didn’t expect Yukako to be worse than in the anime. Also not sure which one Aya is creepier in.
I kinda fell asleep reading Zucca x Zuca . It’s too funny and relatable. In one of the bits, the mom finds the daughter’s otaku funeral plans. I don’t plan to have an otaku funeral, but I did tell/message my parents about what to do with my otaku goods in case I have an untimely death lol. I’m glad my friend lent me this. It’s not a series I’d buy I think, but I would definitely read it at a manga cafe or something. I’ll probably finish this volume and then read just a chapter of the other volume since it’s text heavy. I realized that this summer I’ll probably be in 4 simultaneous book clubs (Nausicaa, Ouran, Behind the Super, and a private one) plus doing my JoJo reading. Looking at the rows of books… I don’t think I’ll finish JoJo this year, but hopefully I can ramp up my speed in the fall!
They also often write dates like this: 2023.07.08, sometimes with the optional 0s, sometimes without them. Or like 7.8 if the year isn’t necessary. I’d say using Arabic numerals and periods is probably the most common way I see it written on twitter, at least in the context of pro wrestling, haha (which is a context where dates are frequently mentioned).
I use the “7.8” style for show dates on my translation account because that’s what Mr. Haku did for his translation tweets, and I got used to that format when keyword searching to find old translations and such. That’s by far the most common format used for wrestling show dates, to the point that “イッテンヨン” (1.4) has become an entire thing in itself in Japanese pro wrestling.
The nice thing about the 2023.07.08 format is that it’s pretty intuitively readable to people used to the American style (month/day/year) as well as people who are used to the European style (day/month/year). So I’ve started defaulting to it when posting online for international audiences.
I also started using it for organizing my files because the way computers read numbers, it’ll ensure that your files are in perfect chronological order when you sort them alphabetically (and periods often work better than slashes or hyphens when naming or tagging things).
Finally, finally, finally I’ve finished Six Four. The end was pretty good, but half if not more of it was just a giant slog. I definitely am not interested in getting this one in Japanese (although keeping people straight mighta been easier in JP. Half the characters have a name starting with the letter M, and at least the kanji and thus the feel would be different, whereas in EN they all just blur into a big blob. Even if the Mi names are all 三, that’s still only a fraction of the total M names. Pretty much any time any M name other than Mikami or Mikumo came up, I was like, “Uh, well, you sure are someone…”) or any of Yokoyama’s other stories tbh. Even if he does mostly write short stories… eh.
I also finished Deep Wizardry, the second novel in Support Your Local Wizard, and in only two days! I’d vaguely remembered parts of the first novel from reading it in high school, but I didn’t remember any part of this. Watch me remember the third though lmao. Anyway this is apparently not just a trilogy like I’d always thought, but a longer series with at least 5 books, so I’m gonna have to find the others at some point too. Augh, and I’m getting more books soon, both JP and EN. If I don’t start reading more of my EN ones again, my to-read pile’s gonna become unwieldy. “Oh, it’s fine, I can read it in a day or two!” only works when you actually read them, Danny!
月刊少女野崎くん issue 39-40 + おまけ, finishing vol 4! (I didn’t read the character profiles, though)
アオのハコ ch 10
I had wanted to finish the first half of さいとう高校 today too, I think ch 7 was only 31 pages, but alas, I didn’t even touch it. So many things I wanna read, only so many hours in a day!
Read three chapters (68-70) from シャドーハウス 6! The plot’s been moving so fast these few chapters that I just wanted to keep reading, and luckily I had the time to do so today!
I got home after work and decided today was pom poko time, so didn’t have much time for reading Tomorrow is off and no plans, so should be able to catch up on book clubs and work a bit more on ラブひな
見込む - to anticipate/to place confidence int
決める - to carry out successfully (yet another meaning)
がつんと言う - to tell a person (something) emphatically
相応しい - appropriate
具合 - condition
具合が悪い - unwell
模様 - pattern
痺れる - to become numb / to go to sleep
ジメジメ - damp / depressing
物音 - sound
着地 - landing
7月9日 (6)
試練 - trial
落とし穴 - pitfall
二手 - two groups (e.g. as in splitting up)
賛成 - agreement
小言 - scolding
狡い - unfair
7月10日 (missed day)
I didn’t read that day. I was traveling by plane, the flight got delayed, lost my luggage and arrive around midnight. So
I wasn’t in the mood and felt to stressed all day.
7月11日 (4)
無視 - ignoring
気絶 - fainting
張り合う - to compete/to play along
ポンコツ - piece of junk (derogatory)
7月12日 (0)
Just read through old manga (correcting a friends reading; learning kana)
7月13日 (1)
Again, just read through old manga (correcting a friends reading; learning kana)
行き成り - abruptly, without warning
7月14日 (1)
Again, just read through old manga (correcting a friends reading; learning kana)
日頃 - normally; habitually
7月15日 (6)
Those words in that combination look bad without context. ^^"
裸 - nude
男娼 - male prostitute
側室 - concubine
女帝 - empress
帝国 - empire
舐める - to lick
7月16日 (missed day)
I didn’t read that day. Was dealing with migraine and slept most of the day.
7月17日 (7)
Read this weeks part of the Absolute Beginners Book Club.
揃う - to be all present
物知り - walking dictionary
山頂 - summit (of a mountain)
目印 - landmark
連れ回す - to drag (someone) around
道案内 - showing the way
言われてみれば - now that you say that; now that you mention it
7月18日 (missed day)
Was to exhausted
7月19日 (0)
I thaught some beginners Japanese and read dialogs with them, if that counts?
7月20日 (5)
Reread old book for with a friend.
最低 - the worst
抱きつく - to clingingly hug
情けない - shameful
二人とも - both of them
然るべき - proper
7月21日 (missed day)
Nothing read sadly…
7月22日 (32)
I added some words from bunpro and the ABBC chapter of this week.
Bunpro (1)
行為 - action, conduct
ちいさな森のオオカミちゃん [108–117, 11 pages] (4)
偵察 - scouting, surveillance
星空 - starry sky
本番 - the real performance
打ち上げる - to launch (e.g. fireworks)
Blood Lad [80-86, 6 pages] (9)
仕組み - mechanism (how it works)
さっぱり - to not get it (yet another way to use it)
てんでバラバラ - various very different things
再構築 - reconstruct
怠い - bothersome; pain in the but
兄貴 - elder brother
身内 - relative
厄介 - bothersome
定着 - to establish (e.g. a nickname)
スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり [19-32, 14 pages] (18)
反省 - to reconsider
乞う - to beg
佐々木 - Sasaki
喫煙所 - smoking corner
煙草 - tabaco
小腹 - stomache (yet another word)
察する - to guess
察しいい - guess
ちょっかいを掛ける - to meddle (in someone’s affairs);
拗ねる - to pout
と言っても - although I say
焼酎 - Soju
花粉症 - hay fever
鈍い - dull
巻き込む - to drag into
しばく - to hit (kansai dialect)
製菓 - confectionery production
個包装 - individual packaging
7月23日〜27日 (No book reading 😭)
Sorry… Work held me up..
7月28日 (12)
I started reading the first 2 chapters of " 情緒をめちゃくちゃにしてくる女" which is from the same author as “おかえりパパ”. And omg.. I am in love with this book. I am used to that author and really really enjoy this book soo much.
Words I added to my list:
正面 - decent; proper
初対面 - meeting for the first time
騙す - to trick
期待 - expectations
がっかり - to disappoint
深入り - getting deeply involved
噎せる - to choke on (e.g. beer)
小銭 - small change
見っとも無い - shameful
挽回 - recovery
いざって時 - at the critical moment
沸く - to get excited (at)
7月29日 (21)
I was reading along the ABBC assignment and learned a lot of words… T-T (13)
Also read the assignment of the BBC and had a less new words.
第一回 - first time
競技 - competition
種目 - event
豪華 - gorgeous
賞品 - price
一回戦 - first game
綱引き - tug of war
借り物競走 - scavenger hunt race
条件 - condition
満たす - to meet a condition/to satisfy
ゴソゴソ - rustling around
態と - on purpose
お人好し - good-natured
取り引き先 - client/customer
半額 - half price
接客 - serving customers
でかでか - in a big way
上司 - one’s superior
態度 - attitude
気配り - attentiveness
生意気 - cheeky
滅茶苦茶 - absurd (I heard and used that one a lot in Japan, however I did not know that it has kanji.)
Thankfully バガボンド went from 2 dudes staring at each other to 2 dudes bathing, with so much dialogue I could finally slow down. I guess reading pages without text is indeed faster than stumbling through archaic dialogues with historical references.
Ouran - 9 pages (Ch 3 part 1)
あん - 3 pages (Ch 5)
aDoBJG: な and など
Back to my 
Kiki
季節を愉しむ366日 
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険37
桜蘭高校ホスト部1
Zucca x Zuca ヅッカヅッカ
７月８日 
Tomorrow is off and no plans, so should be able to catch up on book clubs and work a bit more on ラブひな
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haven’t cried reading a book in years. so sad 