More Persona today, in terms of the in-game calendar, I didn’t progress too much, but this included the first day that I was let off the rails to go explore, so lots of place exploratory text.
Something I might have missed, but in the “what other people did”, it seemed to imply some people made it to level 15 of Tartarus on 4/22, but that’s the first “free entry” day for Tartarus and it kicked me out at level 5 to explain the teleporter mechanic, so I don’t see how they did it. So not sure if I misunderstood something about the menu of other people’s actions, or of the dialogue kicking me out, or if there was some way to re-enter at that point.
Started a new casual read from off my physical shelf, 妄想テレパシー1. Funny, it’s a 4-koma I think I can handle… I really like the way they use colour for the ‘imagination’ segments. I’ve had this one for years, so nice to be able to read it very casually. (Don’t really recommend this one for beginners, no furigana and loads of handwriting, but if you have vocab down it’s surprisingly pretty chill)
BASARA chapter 8
Last chapter of the volume, but there’s still the atogaki, which I’ll probably read tomorrow.
Maybe from people playing on new game plus? I also noticed some funny stuff like that when I played Persona 5, where people were doing things that weren’t possible for me time-wise, and I think that was from new game plus.
didn’t think i’d end up taking up as long as a break as i did but here we are i guess spent the past couple of days in bed trying to get better (turns out shingles on the face sucks) and found it very difficult to concentrate on any real reading at all, i did some poking around on pixiv and wikipedia but that’s about it. debated whether or not to count the days as done in the context of the challenge but i’m gonna go with no. on the other hand my listening practice is doing great
gonna lurk in the thread as i usually do in the off month and then come back to it in april! probably still won’t have finished ouran by then but we’ll see. nice job everybody who made it to the end!
LAST DAY OF THE (official) CHALLENGE! The last three days were very light reading with Dr. Dru’s stories because things are starting to become hectic! Today was episode 2_04. I’m so glad I was able complete a 2 month streak of reading everyday in another language. Mostly Japanese with just one or two days of reading only in Spanish. I’ll be editing my home post for a summary to reflect this.
I probably won’t continue this for March because well… Real life is getting in the way. I still plan to read in another language everyday, but I likely won’t have time to share updates here. I’ll just be ticking away on my study log instead. Maybe sharing interesting things I encounter every now and then there!
Also just to say that I really enjoyed seeing everyone’s progress and I’ve been really motivated by everyone who’s been posting here everyday! Best of luck to everyone who’s planning to continue this through March!
Seasons was about the sort of moon that’s only a sliver and I guess like there’s a harvest moon in the fall, this one’s a sort of spring moon? 三日月. It’s definitely not what’s in the sky rn though.
Chapter 4 of SBR was interesting. I’m not attached to the characters (yet?) but it was a good chapter.
Seasons was about the leap day of course.
Also I am very geniunely confused. I thought I read SBR both the 28th and 29th but I definitely read the whole chapter in one day so idk. Gonna finish the vol tonight. Found the missing chapter lol
Last official challenge day today, and I finished up the manga section of 本好きの下剋上第一部４, with just the bonus short story left. This is the series I bought physically a few months back, so it was a bit slower from the lack of easy lookups, but it’s definitely a lot smoother than it used to be.
Good practice too, since Rakuten shadowbanned my account for buying from outside Japan I guess, so I’m back to bookwalker for novels after I finish up セーラー服と機関銃 I guess, which will also make lookups more of a pain.
Started up ISLAND to take some screenshots for the VN book club and… ended up playing for a bit
Was very pleasantly surprised, I remember struggling so much when I first tried it last summer, now I could just read all sentences at normal speed with minimal look ups and no machine translation. Also, very fun to see things under a different light, when it’s a re-read. Noticing a lot of hints about future events.
I can’t login because it says my password (saved in my password manager) is wrong. I can’t reset it to what’s in my password manager as it says that’s already the password. I can’t set it to a new one because it just errors out telling me I need to fill out form fields that aren’t there.
Have you cleared your cache? Restarted the browser? Tried a different browser? Restarted the computer? Last possibility is to wait a few hours/a few days, sometimes companies break their own websites.
I thought I should ask, although I assume you probably knew all that and have already tried it. Here’s to hoping it is just something weird going on.
Yeah, done all the standard stuff. Even tried to contact support but I didn’t remember the address I’d used when signing up so they told me they couldn’t help. (Also probably the most unusual Japanese practice I’ve had so far lol)
That’s sucks. I’d still try again in a few days. Maybe try to log in with a VPN on too, not sure that would make a difference, but doesn’t hurt to try, right?
Yeah, I could probably get a new account with a VPN/different CC/different email, but I’d rather just deal with someone less hostile to my business. (I think it didn’t help their fraud stuff that I signed up twice in quick succession as I accidentally linked my first attempt at creating an account to a Kobo IE account and then it wouldn’t sell me any books on Rakuten Books or Kobo JP)
AHAHAHA (hysterical laughter) I completed the first part of Markus’ Ascent today, and because of the leap year, even before the challenge officially ends ; two more chapters from Markus Ascent, the final two chapters weren’t part of the actual story; also read two NHK articles today, not the best way to end the month, but I’ll take it hehe
I was lazy tonight as I had already read 6 volumes of a new (awesome) manga in english all afternoon and evening, but then I realized it was the last day of the official challenge and I didn’t want to end on nothing, even if I want to keep on reading every day in march. In a result, I read 5 little pages. Fortunately, it was enough for a good news for both characters^^
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BASARA chapter 8
spent the past couple of days in bed trying to get better (turns out shingles on the face sucks) and found it very difficult to concentrate on any real reading at all, i did some poking around on pixiv and wikipedia but that’s about it. debated whether or not to count the days as done in the context of the challenge but i’m gonna go with no. on the other hand my listening practice is doing great 
February 29 
Manga
15-19 + Bonus
109 Pages
2024年2月29日 
Finished
; two more chapters from Markus Ascent, the final two chapters weren’t part of the actual story; also read two NHK articles today, not the best way to end the month, but I’ll take it hehe
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花野井くんと恋の病 vol. 2, 5 pages.