Home post // May 2 
・ 引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 7 (62% → 68%)
I have a problem of dozing off while I read which makes things difficult. Got to read a bit this morning before alarm went off. Evening, I kept dozing off. Doesn’t help with timer then 
何かほかの対策あんの？ I don’t like the idea of taking a nap, I’d rather get proper sleep at bed time. A power nap can quickly turn into a 4h mini sleep and I don’t want that.
5月3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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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors | Lvl 29 graded reader |  7% → 12% |
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自称悪役令嬢な婚約者観察記録２ | Lvl 31 manga | 0% → 23% |
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地雷なんですか? 地原さん 1 | Lvl 21 manga | 0% → 17% |
Played Mad Father for 2 hours today 
The monsters and ghosts in this game frequently speak in katakana, and it throws me off so much. I can read hiragana just fine at this point, even if it’s a new word, but with katakana I have to awkwardly sound everything out slowly. I need to find a good way to practice it somehow.
Home Post - 5月2日
薬屋のひとりごと７: 64.18% → 72.48%, 1h28m
More great chapters. I don’t know why I thought that I got tired of it.
May 2nd
A few pages of 時間割男子 for the Natively book club.
☆５月２日☆
Very tired today, so I just read this little bit in JP and finished one of my EN novels (Hunter by Mercedes Lackey) (I’d only had a few chapters left)
・7 pages of 不機嫌な青春, starting ch 3 and leaving off on pg 48
・7 pages of 震える天秤, reading ch 12 and leaving off on pg 142
５月２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 | 30.57% → 31.69% | 25m |
imo just keep playing games! You tend to encounter more katakana more often in games than in manga or novels I think, and the struggling to have to read it, if you do it consistently, is what gets you faster.
May 3rd
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Book | Pages |
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六人の噓つきな大学生 - L35 Novel | pg.216 - pg.245 |
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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.100 - pg.143 |
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君がくれた七日間の余命カレンダー - L(~29?) Novel | pg.122 - pg.142 |
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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.80 - pg.118 |
Another good day today, 132 pages. Trying to do the calculations on when I’ll finish books, and I think there’s 3 or 4 I’ll finish in this next week or two, hopefully. 赤と青とエスキース is amazing, as expected from lord and saviour 青山美智子.
May 2nd
Up to page 136, 28 pages read
…but it was probably half that, as this section introduces a new set of artwork, a collection of six scrolls from I think it was the 16/17th centuries, they are very detailed so several of the pages were double spread pictures showing all the details down to the demon’s whiskers. 
You’re probably right. I heard that a lot of the NES games used only katakana, so I might try to struggle my way through some of these. Though then I also have to deal with the low resolution fonts, so maybe I should play more modern games and just let things happen naturally. Not sure which one is better 
3rd may 
some infinite wealth and pushing on with priory
| emoji | book | pages read |
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n1 vocab book | 25-x |
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龍が如く８ | mix of stuff. stilllll in chap 8 |
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マスカレード・ホテル | 432-x |
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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 | 53-x |
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すばらしきこのせかい | x |
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priory of the orange tree | 621-676 |
today’s nhk article was x
5月3日(土) Home Post
more ぼっち・ざ・ろっく alongside jp subs
Home post // May 3
・ 引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 7 (68% → 100%)
Suddenly had a super read 
Read a bit in the morning. Was doing admin stuff for most of the day, then got super sleepy and decided there would be nothing better than taking a nap (normally I don’t like naps). Resting seemed like the most productive thing to do. Felt better after 30min nap. Ate dinner, watched a few episodes of Kusuriya S2. Read book with good focus for 2.5h or so. Very satisfying to finish book (without constantly dozing off), tho the plot and writing I can’t praise that much. Why am I still intending to read this series? Maybe because I have up to book 10.
As for timer, I had to reset it once because I accidentally fell asleep reading in bed once. I know it had just passed 6h. And now it says 8.5h, so that makes a total of 14.5h.
Home | 5月3日
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Title | Type | Progress |
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ふしぎ古書店 2 - L22 | Children’s Book | 34% → 48% |
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山田くんとLv999の恋をする 2 - L24 | Manga | p. 21 → p. 117 |
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善人シボウデス | Visual Novel | 3h 55m |
After four months (and three days) I’ve already surpassed 2025’s reading time for books and manga (72h 57m > 69h 37m)! 
I wrote up a little summary for the month of April in my Home post.
5月4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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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors | Lvl 29 graded reader | 12% → 17% |
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自称悪役令嬢な婚約者観察記録２ | Lvl 31 manga | 23% → 39% |
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地雷なんですか? 地原さん 1 | Lvl 21 manga | 17% |
５月３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 | 31.69% → 32.40% | 20m |
☆５月３日☆
Read:
・43 pages of 震える天秤, reading through ch 16 and leaving off on pg 186
・ROBOT × LASERBEAM 47th round
・this article on some スポーツの難読漢字 (a.k.a. the little-used formal/kanji names of four ball sports, including 孔球, and their origins)
And 孔球 for golf really is little-used. My phone’s IME doesn’t have it, and when I googled the term, the images were all pickleballs or like metal beads, the first site was the Chinese wikipedia page for pickleball though it didn’t use those characters, the next five sites were also Chinese, and that article was the seventh. (And all the related search suggestions were Japanese.) At least I know it is a real word and not one Fujimaki-sensei made up or else lifted from Chinese so the group name would seem more formal.
Also. ヴァーミリオンバード. 朱雀. I should have seen this, but I was too busy picturing a phoenix since they’re vermillion birds…
I’m approaching the halfway point of 震える天秤, and it feels like it’s getting easier to read. Certainly fewer lookups, though I’m not sure about fewer sentences that I need to reread, actually…
Played:
・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(08:29⇒10:54)
