January 9
Finished Final Fantasy VII Remake in japanese. It was much easier to play it in japanese than I expected. The Hojo’s lab part was too long but at least there was a cool boss fight against this flying thing. There were too many boss fights in the last two chapters against bosses who had too much HP. The game would have been much better without all this filler content. But gamers today apparently love long games with lots of boring content.
You can’t pause the game to read what they are talking, which wasn’t real an issue for me. This is also good training for the jlpt getting used to reading fast. The language was around N3 level nothing that hard to understand.
little bits and pieces here and there but mainly focused on finishing the arena side plot thingy in gaiden and now i’m done with that game! next on the 龍が如く list is ishin, aka the one set in the bakumatsu period, so playing that in jp should be uh, interesting to say the least at least it comes with an in-game glossary gonna need to brush up on my 土佐弁 first tho
also finished black sun yesterday so i moved onto my next english read, the hen who dreamed she could fly by sun-mi hwang. translated from korean, it’s about an egg-laying hen at a farm who desperately wants to raise her own chick and escapes from the farm. short, kind of fable-like, should be finished with it tomorrow.
Read and listened through SR’s Yuyu Podcast Introduction sections. As well as Spring Stories and am currently at episode 6. I also read some Nichijou Vol 1 but tbh, the vocab and play on words may be above my lvl rn; like I get some bits and the jokes but I think my efforts are better spent elsewhere hehe
It’s pretty easy to make a new post when you keep reading the same thing ngl XD
I keep trying to read more, but life’s been pretty hectic. I might want to switch to or add in something else, because my slow progress frustrates me to no end .
Finished chapter 十一 of チーズスイートホーム. It’s getting a lot easier to get through these chapters! I still need to look up a lot of the words, but I’m recognizing more than ever even through the baby talk of チー and ヨウヘイ
January 10
Final Fantasy VII Remake
I played the Yuffie dlc for a bit. It’s more of the same but Yuffie fighting style is way different from the other characters. The fights feel different from the ones in the main game.
Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 2
Continued the main story. Ymir was surrounded and all the bad guys appeared all at once. Or maybe they are actually not that bad but have reasons for what they are doing. Rean went with them and the other party members were left alone and Ymir is safe for now at least.
Because I’m on ebooks right on my iPad I always look up.
However when I’m on physical, or when I’m on my phone (which for some reason doing lookups currently breaks my ebook app), I instead do it based on a few factors:
how many words I don’t know (1 lookup per page isn’t too bad so I’ll do it, but if it’s like 10 per page then no I won’t look them all up. If it’s really excessive, like 20+, then I shelve the book for the future.)
Whether I think it’ll be relevant to the plot - because then I can also make sure that what I think it means really is what it means, so I’m not just checking the reading
How often I saw it before and skipped it. If it’s a repeat word I feel like I need to look it up
I finally have time to read Silent Witch 8 which was released half a year ago. Had to read reviews on bookmeter on the previous book to jog my memory on the series so far. Seems like the next book is scheduled to be released in February Will it be last one, I wonder?
I didn’t have many pages left to finish my weekly target for Bunny Sempai for book club, so I used some time to read a bit of my for-fun easy book.
Back to Silent Witch tomorrow for the other book club. This book hopping is kind of giving me whiplash but it’s also kind of a good motivator since I only get 4 and 3 days for each book to read the week’s passage (and really less since I do want to read my Disney books too)
Didn’t really have energy for anything besides reading today so I read all this haha. Still feel like I could read more but it’s late now so I better stop.
I’m on track to finish the main items of the intermediate dictionary this week, maybe today. Manga I’m tracking ok (behind on ホリミヤ but it’s been annoying me lately and may drop it). I’m very behind on the ABC and a little behind on my other 2 books, but should catch up.
Main issues will be that I’m soon to start a couple more clubs, and also that I seem to have the flu.
A bit more エルフさん1. The anime… was pretty good! I was only sad because the content I took nearly three days and two or more hours to struggle through they covered in like the first ten-fifteen minutes. Even though the anime will definitely release at a slow weekly rate, it’s going to outpace me. Oh well, I’m having a pretty good time reading it, so I guess it’s fine.
Another chapter of Bocchi, will read another to catch up to the club today.
Managed to get some serious hours in yesterday but damn, the amount of unknown words in 君には届かない is making it an exhausting exercise 63 new words in 50 pages with text, and that’s even with some pages being a little sparse of text. I look forward to the day one day when my new words is only about 1 every two pages - that will be a nice milestone to celebrate.
I’m still really enjoying the story and aiming to get this vol completed this weekend, but hopefully the last two chapters are just a teeny little bit more comfortable to read haha
(2000-w) 早安，北京 (40-47/58)
at least it comes with an in-game glossary gonna need to brush up on my 土佐弁 first tho 
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