This thread is here to comment on your impressions of this week’s episodes and to ask any question you have regarding the vocabulary or the understanding of them
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Thank you to @araigoshi, @macalys, and @milila for helping to put this together! This will be my first time following along with a listening or reading club on this forum.
The title line of Episode 1 is perfect for a WaniKani club:
「魔法設定なのに漢字が多いんだよ!」(4:27)
My translation: “For a magical setting, there sure are a lot of kanji!”
Interesting new words to me in E1 included:
贅肉 (one of very few common words using 贅)
成就 (uses the unusual go-on-yomi readings; possibly Buddhist in origin?)
赤飯 (a celebratory Japanese tradition I hadn’t heard of)
Question: Does anyone know why 「G」 is slang for “cockroach” (Ep. 1, 21:21)?
少子化問題対策事業計画の手引き。 (all of this is just about text on screen at Ep 1, 4:30)
I had to look up 少子化 but I’m happy I’ve at least seen all these kanji before. I think Main Character’s reaction was because it’s 11 kanji in a row, which was my first reaction too lol
I tried looking this up, and I think the tl;dr is just that cockroach is ゴキブリ so G is the first letter of ゴ and it’s slang to avoid saying cockroach for people who have an extreme phobia. Honestly relatable.
I’ve watched the 2 episodes of the week, one third with japanese subtitles and the other two thirds with french subtitles. It’s my solution for getting used to watch anime with japanese subtitles, I hope it’ll work.
Thanks to those who found that there were japanese subtitles now on Netflix I’m sure they must have heard about our club and obliged us
About the anime, I still love it, maybe more than before
About the graphics I love how they mix horrible 3D models or soldier faces to the rest
And about the story, being an otome player, I love how they totally turn the typical romantic clichés over to make a hilarious comedy. I really can’t get enough of this (When the stick go through the door when Kazuki opens it to go out, I laughed so hard Or when the father is transfered to the US whereas he’s a postman. This is so absurd )
This is a pity there is only 4 manga volumes
That was the turning point for me to realize it wasn’t just a random storm. It was an intentional warning of “do not leave.”
The postman bit had me excited that I knew 郵便 but also I was so excited that I had to tell my husband “wait this guy is part of some mailman exchange program? And he thinks it’s totally fine to leave his teen daughter alone while he just goes thousands of miles away? And he isn’t even leaving her the cat?”
I love this Anime .
What I really liked the most about this Anime is her fluctauting voice.
I am trying to shadow her as much as possible.
Also I have noticed 展開 used a lot to signify change, but the it is only at the end of the sentence which leads me to think it is almost a grammar.
Also Pretty New Vocabulary.
床ドン Pinned to the floor
壁ドン Pinned to the wall
ALRIGHT so I watched episode 2, briefly discussed it in my study log but it was a fun episode. So far I like how dramatic the main character is, I think it’s funny. And I like the guy already forgotten his name but I usually like the faced characters in anime anyway. Looking at the cover there’ll probably be different personalities in other appearing guys but that guy already got me ALSO when they were playing othello or renegade as I know it from clubhouse games, I thought it was funny she kept winning but I’d also like to know the secret to that because all I know about it is try get the corners. My win rate is pretty 50/50 Aaaaand that’s all I can think of for now, looking forward to the next episodes
I watched the first episode. Everything was rather fast and I was rather overwhelmed that I couldn’t even think about pausing to look things up, because before that thought could even begin to process 50 other things had happened. That said, it was easier to follow along with than I expected, even if I’m not sure what exactly anyone was saying.
I just noticed this club had already started, so I watched the first 6 episodes this weekend. Still experimenting with different ways to watch to maximize training my listening comprehension. So far, it seems like the best method is to turn the subtitles off for awhile, then turning them back on and rewatch it to see what I missed (which, tbh, is a lot).
I watched the second episode. I’m definitely more reading the subtitles than understanding what I can hear, but I’m okay with that for now. One line I did understand by hearing it was 見せなくてもいい near the start when the subtitles went vertical and I lost them.
I’m sure they must have heard about our club and obliged us 
Or when the father is transfered to the US whereas he’s a postman. This is so absurd 
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faced characters in anime anyway. Looking at the cover there’ll probably be different personalities in other appearing guys but that 
ALSO when they were playing othello or renegade as I know it from clubhouse games, I thought it was funny she kept winning but I’d also like to know the secret to that because all I know about it is try get the corners. My win rate is pretty 50/50 
Aaaaand that’s all I can think of for now, looking forward to the next episodes