This week has felt mostly good I think, especially the readathon. I feel like I appreciate more that it is four times a year and not every day. Like, because it’s far apart, I can see the progress between each event. On a day to day basis I don’t notice the progress. But it is happening.
SRS
| SRS | anki | wk |  |
jpdb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 月 | ||||
| 火 | ||||
| 水 | ||||
| 木 | ||||
| 金 | ||||
| 土 | ||||
| 日 |
Doing pretty well at keeping on top of anki. I’ve also started the heresy of the occasional times where I do run through wk, I do like 100 reviews and then 3 lessons. I’m review pile will always have something in it anyway, so I might as well.
Reading
○○生活 notes:
I decided I’d rather read ahead and be ahead than not and fall behind.
Page 11
Pretty sure 一話目 is “first chapter.”
Pages 12/13
Headbutting to show your affection is not an appreciated tactic, ぼっちちゃん. It’s kinda adorable how excited she is though.
Does she think she’s playing angry birds or does she want to chuck the phone? I can’t quite tell. Both are things I can see my ぼっち aged self wanting to do.
Pages 14/15
I think it’s the phone she wants to chuck…
Also, たら！ I’ll probably be paying attention to all the “ifs” for a bit as I’ve recently focused on their differences.
Ah, ぼっち you can’t make the other person do all the talking. I understand though. It’s difficult to think of how to reply in a way that keeps the conversation moving.
Pages 16/17
See, maybe I’m the weirdo, but too many faces in the text creeps me out. But, I’m glad ぼっち found a way that is easier to talk to her friend.
Pages 18/19
I’m a little unsure on what the secret is, that they’re exchanging texts? Pretty sure the whole class could see them. Is it how なこ chooses what to say? I’ll have to ask when the thread is up.
I’m glad I was lurking on the ダン飯 thread to have a bit of understanding on 適当.
Misc Reading:
薬屋のひとりごと - I read another page. Special mention to the long sentence 「牡丹のように豊満な肉体や、満月のように白い肌でも持っていればまだ、下級妃嬪の位につける可能性もあったかもしれないが、猫猫の持つのはそばかすの浮いた健康な肌と枯れ枝のような手足くらいである。」which was a doozy to break down and figure out, and I’m still not sure on 浮いた肌 (I went with “unhealthy skin”). But, it was also the only line I had to physically write down to get it. I do feel I’m at the point where even if it takes me a while, I know how to figure out how to read most things.
F落第生 - … I’M READING IT!? Yeah I’m looking a lot up, and probably missing a load of grammar nuance, but this is definitely more reading than deciphering. A phrase I liked was 「ワルぶって嬉しがって」. I managed to keep reading for 5 pages, but the 5th may have been pushing too far.
軌跡
Today will be a 軌跡 day. Yay. I think I’d like to read a lot so I won’t worry too much about doing much else.
Bleeping モルガン将軍 shouting and crashing my game. Had to turn high-res fonts off, and this scene is looooooong. I ended up not looking up unknown words for the last segment of the scene as I was tired and just wanted to save and move on.
My playtime says it was less than an hour, but I’m pretty sure it’s been at least twice that. I started reading like five hours ago, though I did take breaks for dinner and such, more than half the time was reading/deciphering.
Misc Reading:
しろくまカフェ - the chapter was like quadruple the length I was expecting
さよ恋 - they are so gay “If we were going out, every day would be fun.” “Yeah, if you were my lover, that would be wonderful” “I think I seriously want to go out with you” “(thinking) when she said she also fell in love with me at first sight, did she mean she likes me that way? Nope, can’t be.” GIRL, PLEASE! You invited her on a date and now she’s officially asking you out! Believe her when she says she likes you! Even my oblivious brain can see the flirting. What do you mean to be continued? What do you mean there’s just the omake left? Noooooooo
I’ve stopped reading くまクマ熊ベアー. Just not actually all that interested in it.
フリーレン notes:
97
This page is just so calm, especially seeing the page on the right. Why so long since I last read this?
101
not really having much thoughs. Er, にする is a grammar I think I understand.
102/103
2nd page, bottom right. I previously would have been able to make vague sense of this sentence being along the lines of “But if A did not happen, it would have been better.” but now I know the nuance should be more “But I wish A hadn’t happened.” (A here being ボロボロ)
104/105
That necklace on the one corpse was his son’s!
He’s giving them the barrier spell, which I believe is real, and claiming it was written in Flamme’s grimoire, which so far there hasn’t been a non-fake one so that’s less certain.
106/107
Ah, another fake. Well, at least he straight up asked her to confirm rather than fake confidence of lies.
Stark, there’s a difference between being allowed to talk to someone casually and calling them barbaric. One much more offensive than the other. (Actually, I wonder, if you said it in a polite way would it come across more offensive as the politeness would seem mocking?)
108/109
Yeah, I am not awake enough for this. I didn’t get the 気絶 joke, despite looking up the word, until he was floating behind them in the montage. So, calling it there for now.
Readathon - I scribbled a few notes but not sure which page numbers they refer to.
Ch23
- not licking the winter, underestimating it
- The winter killed most of the demon king’s soldiers, the winter is the thing doing the killing
- Uh oh, being lost is bad
- That’s the chapter over?
Ch24 - Ah shouty muscle guy! Ah, エルフ！ Fern just pulled her back out XD
- I’m reading out loud and put emphasis on 変態 because Fern made me chuckle, so I had to explain to my sister it was a strange hentai not a porn hentai
- Wait, new party member? How we writing his name? Craft?
- Wasn’t expecting him to be leaving already, but that was interesting
Ch25 - Couldn’t figure out what the heck レプリカ was meant to be until I focused on the kanji being 偽物 and remembered all the times that referred to Flamme’s grimoires.
- Oh it had the right furigana on the next page, oh well I still kinda figured it out myself.
- Frieren said something along the lines of “better to get the ugh stuff out of the way first” and she’s right because if you don’t you just think about it all day and then are not relaxing. Still difficult to follow that advice though
- Oh that is a rather big puppy
- Big puppy has a few too many eyes
A couple other things from Ch25 I didn’t write down at the time:
At first I was thinking the child 村長 (different word was used) was some kind of fantasy race, but with the thing about her being Xth generation, I think she’s just a human child. We saw Frieren meet her (great?) granny with Himmel and the others.
There was a thing about Himmel being a fake hero with a fake sword, which obviously is nonsense because like he did go kill a demon king and all. Which got me thinking, is a “Hero” like an actually classifiable inherent thing in this setting? Is there like an actual criteria for being allowed to be called a hero? Himmel seems to have been a heroic person whether or not he is a literal hero (whatever that means), though I was very tired towards the end of this chapter and may have missed something.
Misc Reading:
ごくまのクーク - some words, like エンレイソウ, aren’t really worth looking up because I don’t know the name of the flower in English. Really all I need to know is that it’s a flower, which is what the context is for.
I just realised why the formatting of sentences was weird, and why pictures have been in weird places. Because I turned the font up for 薬屋 and it also affected this. Ahhh now my page count is off. Bookwalker thinks I’ve unread pages. Oh well, I’ll deal. I’ve got to remember to switch between those font sizes. Or I could get used to the normal font on everything. Not feeling confident enough for that yet though.
I finished whichever story I was in the middle of (they are not numbered, but the next one is なかなかおりの理由)
ドラえもん
Having a look at my version of Doraemon and which chapters overlap with the club, and uh… all of them are listed? But the book claims to have all 6 grades and isn’t much longer that the 1st grade seems to be? Further investigation will be required…
Okay, read the first chapter (it was very easy, hooray for me) and had a look ahead. For 一年生 there’s just the first two chapters, I don’t know why they were all listed. But, I’ll get to easily see the kanji being used increasing.
There’s a couple text-heavy pages in-between the 一年生 and 二年生 that I’ll figure out later. I also looked ahead a bit and the 二年生 page numbers are as they would be in the 二年生 volume, so I need to remember I can’t just look at the bottom of the page but instead need to keep track of the page bookwalker thinks I’m on.
READATHON START
Reading session 1
| Source | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|
ゆきおんな  |
12 (6 w/ text) | 9m |
| 一休さん |
20 pages (10 w/ text) | 11m |
| ささやくように恋を唄う |
6 pages | 6m |
| レンタルおにいちゃん２ | 41 pages | 15m |
| 三ツ星カラーズ | 16 pages | 16m |
| マジで付き合う１５分前 | 6 pages | 7m |
| ドラえもん | 6 pages | 4m |
| しろくまカフェ | 10 pages | 8m |
| 生き残った６人によると | 30 pages | 39m |
三ツ星
When playing hide and seek, make sure everyone knows the boundary of the hiding area first. I would recommned not more than two train stops away.
生き残った
Ch4 was difficult to figure out. I’m like 70% sure he attempted negging her but I don’t understand the language enough to be completely sure.
Reading session 2
| Source | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 約束のネバーランド | 27 pages | 36m |
| 葬送のフリーレン | 48 pages | 75m |
約束
Could have read more deeply but not much motivation when the plot is still in memory territory.
Reading session 3
| Source | Pages | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 空の軌跡 | 5.4k | 100m |
| スーと鯛ちゃん３ | 14 | 6m |
| ふくよも | 21 (11 w/ text) | 5m |
I think I’ve got 14 sources, 231 pages, 5.4k characters, 337 minutes (or 5hrs 37 in normal time). Wrote the rest of the results summary in reathathon thread.
Listening
Last episode of のんのんびより. The entire first half of this episode was not enjoyable. Fairy Renge was adorable though. The last scene where they all turned around and waved at the camera was not appreciated 
creeped me out
Also listened to #7 Sakura Tips. This one was about 「おいしい」 food that does not sound appealing. Ugh, I’m so fussy.
Did some catching up on origami as I’ve been missing days.
Grammar
Watched some Japanese Ammo with Misa while getting the house in order.
Daily Rambling
月曜日：
Finally got my sister to commit to which day she’s coming to visit, which will be on Thursday.
Looks like I have some difficult reading to start with today… And I’ll need to decide if I’m reading ahead on ○○生活 or skipping it until it comes up again. I spy さよ恋 at the bottom of what I can see without scrolling, and I kinda feel motivated to try and reach it.
So I took a lunch break after F落第生 and stuff happened and I never actually got back to this.
火曜日：
I am finally, over two decades after getting diagnosed, going to get a post-diagnosis autism explanation. Hooray for mental health care improving.
水曜日：
Me? Awake? In the morning? What is this? Anyway, this is great because I’ve got stuff I need to do before my sister gets here tomorrow, and now I have hours available for Japanese that I didn’t think I would have.
木曜日：
I have a sister! Yay! (I mean, technically I have two but one of them is physically here.)
金曜日：
I have finally figured out the reason I’ve been struggling to get up properly for a while now is actually just because it’s dark outside. Which is all well and good, but there’s also a certain time of night where it just feels “too late” to start anything important but if I’ve woken up later I’m usually not tired enough to go to bed so I mither around doing nothing.
I’m not entirely sure what the solution to this is yet, but I’m now more aware of where the problem is coming from. At least the days will start starting earlier afer tomorrow. It’s a little embarassing that whether or not the sun exists affects me this much.
土曜日：
Readathon!
There’s a lot I wanna read and I’m not sure how much time I’ll be able to with my sister here. So quickly, plan.
Gonna start with finishing the two kids’ books and the さよ恋 omake. Then chapter each of easier manga, then work through gradually more difficult until I get to ぼっち and binge it in catching up attempt. When I’m caught up / fed up with ぼっち, then 軌跡 at least until character goal. Novels last as bad page/time ratio.
日曜日：
plan: get up early read kiseki for like an hr for 1k characters yay
Got two hours available to read, then I want to re-add up totals as what I put last night is wrong. (36+75<100 but 190-115<100)
Where I’m at for the clubs. The current column is now consistent in it is what I already read, not what I need to read next. Last week’s was a mess.
| Club | Name | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Offshoot | 葬送のフリーレン | ch 25 |
| 軌跡 | 空の軌跡 | wk 15 |
| Offshoot | 約束のネバーランド | ch 7 |
| Anime | のんのんびより | ep 12 |
| Podcast | 4989 American Life | ep 2, 7:38 |
| IMC | ぼっち・ざ・ろっく | ch 3, pg31 |
| ABBC | ドラえもん | ch2 |
| BBC | ひとりぼっちの○○生活 | ch 2 |
| Anime | ダンジョン飯 | not started |
(There are more than 2 ドラえもん chapters, but I only have two that overlap with the club.)
I don’t think I’m quite happy with how my study log is laid out. This isn’t really five equal categories, this is I read a lot and ramble a lot and the other things are so little in comparison. Kinda want fancy formatting and pretty pictures but I don’t think I have the effort to do that every week. Maybe doesn’t need to be weekly as long as I’m still studying in between updates? I’ll have a think on it.
Another thing I’m not quite happy with is my lack of ぼっち progress. Might go back to reading a little bit of that daily. If there’s just one thing I’ve got to do every day, hopefully it’s not going to get tedious. Though, not today as I already read plenty earlier.
Hmm, maybe one thing to read daily that is my main thing I’m focusing on, and everything else is variable based on what I’m feeling up to and randomised for less tediousness. At the moment, that’s ぼっち as I do want to read in the IMC. When I’ve finished ぼっち I can choose a new thing to be the focus (maybe next IMC pick, maybe 軌跡, maybe a novel, I’m thinking far too far ahead and will probably have completely changed my study routine by the time ぼっち finishes).