21st november 
really struggled to focus today but i did get some reading done so it counts. reading a webtoon in manga format is really strange ngl.
| emoji | book | pages read |
|---|---|---|
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n1 skm listening book | 71-77 |
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超現代誤訳幕末物語 | 40-45 |
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relife vol 1 | 33-95 |
 |
steins;gate | ~1hr 30 |
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the encyclopedia of japanese pop culture | 164-x |
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starling house | 24-35 |
today’s article was x (i read some bits of a couple but none in full)
２０２５年１１月２１日(金)
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Book | Pages |
|---|---|---|
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俺物語１ | 103 - 124 |
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ドラえもん二年生 学年別ドラえもん名作選 | 84 - 91 |
November 18
I played Deathsmiles 2 for a change and got the good ending with Windia. In other words I finished my tenth game in japanese this year. Now I have finished my second reading goal this year. Just one more left.
Deathsmiles 2 was very easy only around N4 level with not that much text to read. I reached a point where it doesn’t matter whenever I play a game in japanese or english.
| Title | Type | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| うみねこのなく頃に | VN | 6:38:53 116.7k chs | |
| 頭のよさは国語力で決まる | L32? Nonfiction | pg.80 | |
| 螢・納屋を焼く・その他の短編 | L33 短編集 | pg.53 | |
| 愛しさに気づかぬうちに | L26 Novel | pg.190 | |
| Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 1 | L36 LN | pg.42 | |
| 日本語は「空気」が決める | L30 Nonfiction | pg.60 | |
| 時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん4.5 | L30 LN | pg.0 | pg.33 |
Not much time to read
2025/11/20
About 10 min of Pokemon Moon
Pages 226-235 of くまクマ熊ベアー vol 1
November 21st 
山鴫
The English title is given as ‘The Snipe’ but 山鴫 (ヤマシギ) refers to the Eurasian Woodcock, unless 山鴫 was used to refer to all the birds in this genus/family at some point… maybe I’m just thinking too much on this
Anyway, read about a 1/4 to a 1/3.
Home post // November 21 
・ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 2 (0% → 29%)
Wuii, got read more than yesterday. This series seems interesting, so I’ll continue reading.
Almost got a bingo in my calendar. It doesn’t show but the Sunday in week 43 is , so hidden bingo.
November 19
I’m back to playing 英雄伝説 碧の軌跡. Just doing quests. Some quests have actually lots of texts to read and rarely voiced dialog.
◎１１月２１日◎
・21 pages of 逆転裁判 時間旅行者の逆転, leaving off on pg 28
(Hah, 21 pages on the 21st day; I only just realized after posting)
I brought 逆転裁判 to work with me, but I haven’t dropped 猫とメガネ yet. I’m willing to give it a chance, though I’m still cautious of it.
I’m still unsure if you even are supposed to sympathize with/be on the side of the protagonist (recognizing that he has room to grow but also recognizing his struggles and that the world can be very unfair to those who aren’t typical—not even just neurotypical; he’s possibly acespec and/or gay too, considering he doesn’t care about romance or marriage and only found a wife to appease his grandparents who were worrying that he’s approaching 40 and is still single. Though he still did good by her, best he was able… it just wasn’t enough for her, since she doesn’t want a marriage of convenience or a partner who’s non-typical) or if you’re supposed to be like, “Wow, what a dick. Also, just how stupid is he? I hope the deuteragonist can knock some sense into him and make him normal. People like him are awful.” Autism often gets treated negatively, even when it’s not acknowledged as autism, after all.
昔から勉強はできる方だったが、大学院で二年過ごしてようやく自分が天才ではないことに気付かされた。
Is she me. Although since she’s in grad school, she made it further than I did.
Mitsurugi Shin (Gregory Edgeworth) is in this! The first section is mainly set about two months before he died, so he’s Yuuko’s defense attorney. (The second section is set in 2016, the year the time traveller and presumably his killer came from.)
Looking through Natively for my little “read something of every level” challenge to I’ve found this manga that looks interesting, mostly because it’s about knitting!
Knitter’s High
Guy in the field track in a private high school gets injured and can’t run anymore, so he gets convinced to try the handicrafts club.
First manga I’ve seen that covers this subject so I’m really curious to read it and probably learn a whole lot of knitting terminology.
I’m more of a crocheter, but on one cover one of the characters is shown crocheting so I hope that they will show that too.
Maybe I can try to pick up knitting again…
2025/11/21
About 10 min of Pokemon Moon
最後にひとつだけお願いしてもよろしいでしょうか(manga version) - chapter 20, 21, and half of 22
| Title | Type | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| うみねこのなく頃に | VN | 6:38:53 116.7k chs | |
| 頭のよさは国語力で決まる | L32? Nonfiction | pg.80 | |
| 螢・納屋を焼く・その他の短編 | L33 短編集 | pg.53 | |
| 愛しさに気づかぬうちに | L26 Novel | pg.190 | |
| Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 1 | L36 LN | pg.42 | pg.70 |
| 日本語は「空気」が決める | L30 Nonfiction | pg.60 | |
| 時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん4.5 | L30 LN | pg.33 | pg.135 |
Good reading
Should get a bit tomorrow on trains
２０２５年１１月２２日(土)
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Book | Pages |
|---|---|---|
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おじさまと猫１ | 1 - 18 |
I finished reading Big Brother Rental. Going to go with two book series next and alternate between them, since both series have like 20 volumes lol break it up a little bit as I go through them
A Man And His Cat, and Teasing Master Takagi-San.
November 22nd
山鴫
Read up to about 3/4s of the way through. This story holds no punches in putting bird names in kanji, I know a few of them thanks to looking them up previously from drawing them and such, but there were some I wasn’t familiar with here.
This one takes place in Russia, and thankfully the names are in katakana and not some form of ateji kanji headscratchers. But then one of the characters suddenly drops this strange looking Japanese: “Il est tombé comme pierre, je t’assure!”
I have no idea why a Russian hunter suddenly decides to speak French when the whole rest of the time they’ve been speaking in ‘Russian’ i.e Japanese
Also, I never knew that まま (meaning: remaining as is; keeping the same) has a kanji form, being: 儘.
22nd november
some pixiv and more of starling house, which is deliciously gothic and i’m enjoying it a lot and wish i had more time to sit and read it.
| emoji | book | pages read |
|---|---|---|
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n1 skm listening book | 77-x |
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超現代誤訳幕末物語 | 45-x |
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relife vol 1 | 95-x |
|
steins;gate | x |
|
the encyclopedia of japanese pop culture | 164-x |
|
starling house | 35-50 |
today’s article was x
Home post // November 22
・ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 2 (29% → 35%)
Finished chapter 1 of 3.
・(Audiobook: 硝子の塔の殺人 23% → 33%)
Didn’t look at the text at all this time. Was doing puzzle on the floor.
・Ah, also did reading part of N1 mock exam.
２０２５年１１月２３日(日)
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Book | Pages |
|---|---|---|
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からかい上手の高木さん 1 | 1 - 18 |
饿殍：明末千里行 
