4月29日 (火)
- 葬送のフリーレン 6 (75%) - 7 (20%)
恋爱绮谭 不存在的夏天 
– end Ch and to the next. survive ofc
4月30日 (水)
- 葬送のフリーレン 7 (20-76%)
- 空の軌跡
5月1日 (木)
- 葬送のフリーレン 7 (76-100%)
- ダンジョン飯 6 (0-47%)
- 空の軌跡
Didn’t read as much as I thought I would in April. I mostly read easy stuff (Comprehensive Japanese video transcripts, NHK Easy, etc.) but it was still something. I finally got back into reading harder stuff and I just finished a few pages of Flying Witch!
Home | 5月1日
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Title | Type | Progress |
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名探偵コナン 1 - L27 | Manga | p. 0 → p. 5 |
5月1日(木) Home Post
More yotsuba this evening.
Had a lazy end of the month and almost forgot that I was doing this at all. I might do more listening for some time to switch things up.
May 1st
Book reading today - a half chapter each of 時間割男子 1 and 木曜日にはココアを to get up to date with the Natively book clubs. Two very different books, but I enjoy them both!
Home post // May 1 
・ 引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 7 (50% → 62%)
Didn’t read any yesterday. Read for quite a while today.
I found an image! Illustrating exactly what I was trying to explain.
5月2日 | 
: 1 book, 13 manga vols
| ? | Title | Type | Progress |
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ボッチ・だ・ロック 3 | Lvl 31 manga (club) |  55% |
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徒然チルドレン 1 | Lvl 20 manga | 67% → 100% COMPLETE |
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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors | Lvl 29 Graded Reader |  0% → 7% |
- Finished 徒然チルドレン1 before bed, a great read and fits neatly into the Yotsuba/Moto Takagi before-bed slot I think (a bit harder than both but will probably just read slower). I’ll wait for a sale or coinback and snipe the whole series, just missed the Golden Week beginning sale I think. (Also I have no money, because Switch 2).
- Started a graded reader I’ve had on my shelf for literal years. First essay is one by Murakami which I’ve read before, except last time took me weeks probably and this time I read it in a few minutes, so that’s a nice boost. All unexplored territory from here though.
Played Mad Father for 2,5 hours today. I’m finding lots of new words. It feels very rewarding when I can solve puzzles in Japanese, even if I have to rely on the dictionary sometimes 
Home Post - 5月1日
April is already gone! It wasn’t really Japanese-oriented for me, but I still managed to read about 1 hour a day in average, hurray!
薬屋のひとりごと７: 52.57% → 64.18%, 1h47m
Another couple of chapters. It was fun! I think that I’m getting back into it.
５月１日
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Book | Type | Progress | Time |
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無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 | Light Novel | 30.08% → 30.57% | 24m |
☆５月１日☆
Yeah so I think I know why I rarely have more than a couple books in active rotation. Even when I have the time/energy, my brain doesn’t want to switch between so many books in a day. So instead of trying to read from all of them, I’ll sorta cycle through them. If I don’t read one one day, I’ll try to read it the next. Then hopefully none will get left on the wayside for weeks or months on end, like the Belgariad… (I’ve got 6 novels currently, 3 in EN and 3 in JP. And the Belgariad I accidentally let sit for who even knows how long with 8 pages left of the first book… [it’s an omnibus, so I didn’t realise how little I had left])
Read:
・13 pages of 不機嫌な青春, finishing ch 2 and leaving off on pg 40
・ROBOT × LASERBEAM 44th~46th round
ch 45 left a bad taste in my mouth.
There was a big buff guy who cross-dressed in order to creep in the women’s bath, and there’s absolutely no reason for it either. Fujimaki could have come up with literally any other reason for Ginrou to show off his swing before we see him on the green, but no, it’s gotta be a transphobic bogeyman :/
Yeah, at least over here in the U.S. it’s primarily the women’s bathroom (トイレ) rather than the women’s bath (風呂), but it’s not like changing rooms and the ilk aren’t also a concern, it’s merely that the most stink is made over トイレ, but the fact that it’s 女湯 here doesn’t make it any better. And that he’s big/muscular/masculine is just the icing on the cake, since people love pointing at trans men who pass and look similar or at least who have facial hair and go, “You don’t want a trans man who looks like that in the women’s bathroom, do you?” No. Nor do they want trans women, or intersex women, or cis women who aren’t feminine enough or the right kind of feminine, or enbies or GNC folks even if they have the “right” parts. And none of them are welcome in the men’s restroom, either! That’s the entire point. Policing what kind of women are allowed in the women’s restroom just because a few men might disguise themselves as women to perv/commit sexual assault when they could much more easily just walk right in as-is to do it just causes more harm than good.
(They’re in a large facility that has not only baths, but a food court, izakaya, arcade, massage parlour, and indoor rock-climbing after a tournament, to eat and celebrate Robo-kun’s win. It’s also decorated with various art pieces and potted plants. Ginrou’s coincidentally there as well and sorta gets dragged in/drags himself in. While in the food court, they hear screams from the women’s bath, and out runs the transphobic bogeyman. Ginrou asks if anyone has a golf ball on them—spouting some BS about how a golfer should always have a golf ball on them, even though he doesn’t himself—and luckily Tomoya still has one that he’d forgotten to put away, so Ginrou borrows that as well as a broom off a passing janitor, which he uses to to send the ball flying into a suit of armour, knocking it over on top of the bogeyman as he runs past it, thereby stopping him from getting away.
(Was there really any need for it to be that situation specifically??)
2nd may 
just the one chapter of masquerade, wanted to focus on other stuff. spun the randomiser wheel and it spat out a generic isekai so we’ll see if i manage to finish this one 
| emoji | book | pages read |
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n1 vocab book | 20-25 |
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龍が如く８ | plot plot and more plot. still in chap 8 tho |
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マスカレード・ホテル | 420-432 |
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劣等人の魔剣使い スキルボードを駆使して最強に至る vol 1 | 0-53 |
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すばらしきこのせかい | x |
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priory of the orange tree | 598-621 |
today’s nhk article was this one (those flood diversion chambers under saitama)
edit: i was gonna read more priory but then got thoroughly distracted trying to find a (jp) quote at the start of the next section. it was from the 万葉集 and i did eventually find it (highlighted section is relevant lines):
eng translation (the one used in the book):
Counting the transcript I read to check listening as today’s mandatory read, though I intend to do some more actual reading later.
One and a half chapter of あの子の子ども and one chapter ふらいんぐうぃっち. Right into Volume 6 from あの子の子ども now. Finally back on track again with my actual reading program and not just jumping from one read to another which feels quite good.
May 1st
Up to page 108, 18 pages read
Read the next chapter of the 往生要集 which was all about the hell-like realms that exist outside of the main 8 layers of hell and instead exist in places between all the other realms, one of them was called ‘The Realm of Hungry Souls’.
May 2nd
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Book | Pages |
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六人の噓つきな大学生 - L35 Novel | pg.216 |
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ひぐらしのなく頃に奉 鬼隠し編 - VN | ch.12 partway through |
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赤と青とエスキース - L32 Novel | pg.60 - pg.100 |
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君がくれた七日間の余命カレンダー - L(~29?) Novel | pg.98 - pg.122 |
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木曜日にはココアを - L28 Novel | pg.24 |
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思い出が消えないうちに - L27 Novel | pg.166 |
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変な絵 - L28 Novel | pg.48 - pg.80 |
NHK Articles:
【Q＆A】日本人は睡眠不足？睡眠障害ってなに？専門家に聞く | NHK | 厚生労働省
日立製作所 徳永俊昭新社長 新たな企業の姿を | NHK | ビジネス特集 | IT・ネット
96 pages today, plus some NHK articles. Good stuff. Cba to crosspost, but more on study log.
5月2日(金) Home Post
Watched anime with JP subs today; counting it towards this too.
Home | 5月2日
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Title | Type | Progress |
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小学生なら知っておきたい教養３６６ - L28 | Nonfiction | p. 127 → p. 136 |
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善人シボウデス | Visual Novel | 2h 41m |