February 11 Home Post
As promised, I finished アゲイン!! today! It’s pretty interesting, it’s like a weird combo of a sports/club manga but also sci-fi? Wild I imagine I’ll continue it in the future (since I have all of them), but for now I’m messing with other things…
…so I started reading ヴァニタスの手記! And it’s been pretty slow going, but not so much because it’s hard as because it’s so pretty, I’m obsessed with the aesthetics immediately. Like even the cover has a fancy matte kind of texture to it, and the inner cover has shiny silver illustrations, and it’s just so pretty I know nothing about the series but I’m definitely intrigued so far, even outside of the art. The language honestly isn’t super difficult outside of some… creative uses of kanji? The mangaka is clearly very into French and so the furigana on some words is just katakana-ized French, which is just more interesting than anything.
(I also started playing the cat soup game (in Japanese obv) and it’s just so hey it’s all reading practice lmao)
Words!!
筋書 - synopsis, plot
即ち - that is, namely
復讐 - revenge
曽~ - great-(grandfather, etc.)
貧血 - anemia
勝る - to excel, to surpass
機械仕掛け - mechanism (but like the cool kind, google this if you wanna see cool steampunk things)