Yeah, I’m usually in Australia, though currently in the UK, so posted with Aus time zone. Also I’m terrible at remembering to post things in the morning.
December 24th
Card Captor Sakura volume 3 – progress report
Yesterday: Read up to page 40.
Today: Finished chapter 11 and 12, continued up until page 118.
I’m satisfied with today’s progress but at the same time I’m a bit frustrated because I couldn’t understand more than 70% of either chapter 11 and 12.
Chapter 13 seems more manageable and I was about to constrain myself to read through it too but luckily Fujitaka’s cheesy line upon meeting Nadeshiko the first time by saving her when she fell down a tree broke me (‘I thought an angel from the sky had just fallen down’ or something along the lines) and I decided to call it a day.
Word or expression of the day:
見舞い (+する) - (みまい) - visiting ill or distressed people, writing get-well letters
Honourable mention(s):
真似 - (まね) - imitating, copying; behaviour, action
Grr, cdjapan will ship この本を盗む者は but don’t have any of the Yokomizo Seichi books…
Not near my laptop right now, but since us weird Swedes celebrate Christmas today, I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
Not weird at all says the weird German
Merry Christmas/happy holidays everybody!
Dec 24, Sat of Week 13 of Fall 2022
- SPY x FAMILY Vol.4 Ch.18 (start volume)
The whole volume is about the cover? Also, almost all chapters are about one mission.
- BU$TAFELLOWS (end of Ch.1, 6%)
Probably I overdid myself a little, wanting to finish the chapter. Not that I want to pay yet. Also, I haven’t yet explored “bad choices”.
Interesting words
- もとい. Probably 基 = basis. I have only seen 的射 before, and of course, に基づいて.
- たいそう = impressive / excessive. Kanji form is 大層.
- たらず = just under. Kanji form is 足らず, and probably worth a grammar point.
- なれあい = conspiracy. What someone else told to become, and needs to get used to. From 馴れ合い.
- チクる = to inform a superior. Probably, being told on, then チクチク.
- おさらい = rehearsal. From お浚い.
- しゅぐ = equipment, like in gymnastics. From 手具.
- とっちめる = to teach someone a life lesson. From 取っちめる / 取って締める
- ごくたまに = very rarely; very 偶に
- グル = conspirator. 共謀者.
- 洗いざらい = entirely; without reservation. Also, 洗い浚い
- 唆す = to tempt; to entice. Kanji is from 示唆.
- 欺く = to trick
- 食い止める = to keep at bay
- 歪み = distortions; strains. I previously know of 歪む and 歪.
- 与党 = ruling party. Opposite is 野党. Sounding not that different, and both are in context.
- 愛嬌 = charming
- 強面 = fierce look. Indeed, 持つ.
- 薄氷 = thin ice
- 下見 = preparatory read-through
- 犬種 = dog breed
- 鍵盤 = keyboard e.g. of a piano
- 颯爽 = gallantly. Another vocab with the Kanji, probably 颯と.
- 抜け毛 = fallen hair (of a dog)
- 激ウマ = seriously delicious (うまい).
- 対象外 = not subject to. Outside the scope of 対象.
- 譲渡会 = pet adoption fair. 譲渡 is transferring of rights.
- 成否如何 = depending on success or failure. Of particular interest is 如何 part = because, depending out; and might be useful for later.
- 腹を下す = to have diarrhea. Probably like someone throwing a judging hammer at your guts (bowels).
- 二足のわらじ = wearing two hats at the same time. Also, 二足のわらじを履く. 草鞋 is straw sandals; probably used often in olden times.
- もぬけの殻 = completely empty place (shell 殻). Probably nothing related to 間抜け.
- 先手を打つ = to take the first move / to attack first
SFX
- てちてち
- にっと(笑う) = like ニヤニヤ
- ギュッと = in a cramped space
- ゾッと = shuddering
- そこそこ = reasonably
- いざいざ = come here
Kanji
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嬌
- Seductive charm. Probably like a tall-haughty (喬) lady.
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愛嬌
- 愛嬌を振りまく
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颯 (Level 52)
- 颯爽, 颯と
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唆 (Level 52)
- 示唆, 教唆
- 唆す
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歪
- 歪曲
- 歪む, 歪む, 歪
December 24th (Home Post Link)
Merry Christmas Eve and Happy Holidays, everyone!
I ended up spending about 5 hours playing through Emily is Away <3 instead of doing a lot of studying today, and man that was a real nostalgia trip.
semi spoilery/rambly thoughts
I was in high school during that whole “fb official” relationship era back when young people weren’t (rightly) scared of having all this public facing info so that part really hit home, and then I especially appreciated a lot of the music in the playlists. It’s not the best music from that time period, but if you were a “hip” kid hanging out on youtube in the late 2000s/early 2010s, this is absolutely the stuff you were listening to (actually audibly cracked up being reminded of hollywood undead ).
Making lil playlists to send to people might be a lost art now, I think, but it’s definitely something my friends and I did a lot of. I also never thought I’d get another chance to have a fun poke war in between sending messages with no looming guilt for using the panoptic tool for misinformation spreading that facebook/insta/meta has become again. (Although, even in the game, I couldn’t escape japanese entirely, Bad Apple!! shows up on their fake version of youtube with some japanese comments )
It really was a different era of the internet, no doubt about that, and this game captured that snapshot of time super well. It might only really impact people within specifically like a 5-6 year age range who grew up in a particular culture, but, hey, I am exactly the target audience here, and so it did.
Then I was still waxing nostalgic so I went and played piano for a while, dug out the some of the songs I learned back in high school and had a nice lil trip down memory lane.
But hey, it’s holiday time! Even I deserve to take it a lil easy sometimes! …but I still did a little bit of studying anyway
Read:
Good Words
NHK
気象庁「きしょうちょう」ー Japanese Meteorological Agency
滑る「すべる」ー to slide, to glide
ホリミヤ
退屈「たいくつ」ー boring, dull, tedious
醜い「みにくい」ー ugly, unsightly, shameful
こげ ー scorch, burn (黒こげ describing カップケーキ)
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For some reason I remembered 2.43 being in hokkaido (I only watched the first episode or two, and I mostly remember a lot of snow, so that might be it), but nope! Nice to see more and more of these little connections popping up, really feels like my web of cultural knowledge is starting to get more dense. I was sorta wondering if there were any good examples of this dialect in anime/manga/books/movies but you answered my question before I even asked! I’ll give it another shot at some point and see if I can pick up on the fukuiben
ohoohoho this looks excellent (eventually), thank you for sharing
December 24th
Today I read Chapter 36 of Happiness. Not sure why the mangaka chose to name it “Happiness” though, its consistently pretty harrowing to be honest
I immediately think of an Samoyed (サモエド)…
They’re big floofers. I see them around sometimes and it appears they’re around in Japan as well
Overshot this week’s schedule with my two favourite book clubs this week.
24/12 32 pages シャドーハウス (both chapters, didn’t count blank pages as reading, then started next chapter; skimmed another 16 pages)
31 pages Spy Family (whole mission) plus 9 pages next
I was already thinking I may read ahead with シャードホウス, and with the break coming up and an intriguing point in the story I’ve basically done this. The extra bits I’ve read have answered a few of the overarching questions in the story but possibly posed more.
I read a few extra pages of Spy Family but probably will pause now till next week, and read the other clubs instead.
Home post // Dec 24
・ 封印再度 (21% → 25%)
Slowly reading along. Today’s a new book club week. Still a few pages left from previous week. I’ve watched a lot of JP content instead. I don’t think I’ll recover from falling into vtuber rabbit hole from during exam time. I kinda like it here actually
help
2022-12-25T03:00:00Z
It’s just an hour early for my time zone but Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
he is a very good boi, the best boi even (yeah he’s probably a samoyed)
edit: oh! the wiki says he might be a Pyrenean Mountain Dog - Wikipedia, maybe some sort of mix?
There are even some short stories on the 2.43 official website (might have to poke around a bit, I found some in a few different places) to read—there’s even one that briefly features the dinos at Fukui Station!—as well as mini anime (including a 福井弁講座 series) and short audio dramas, though you may need to be somewhat familiar with the characters first. There are three novels currently with the fourth in the middle of serialization online. If you like dramas and character-driven stories, you might like it, and the novels are a lot better than the anime (though it’s still my favorite anime despite its flaws lol)
Since my family’s German, we actually celebrate xmas on the evening of the 24th, so I’ve already opened presents! It was mostly books, of course, and most of those English novels, although I did get a couple relating to learning Japanese and Japanese culture, and Amazon US actually had 魔女の宅急便 pretty cheap so I put that on my list and got it too!
Picture below:
From top to bottom, I got:
- 魔女の宅急便 by 角野栄子
- Star Trek: Section 31: Control by David Mack
- The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster, with original illustrations by Shinonome Kijin
- Sensing Strange and Twisted Travels by M. Kuriel
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
- The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Characters by Christopher Seeley and Kenneth G. Henshall, with Jiageng Fan
- a genkouyoushi notebook, which is a lot bigger than expected, which I guess makes sense since they want to give you the room to write the kanji properly. I write tiny though, and actually have a tough time writing big, so we’ll see how this works out.
There’s one more on the way, Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don’t Tell You by Jay Rubin, which has apparently been delayed due to the weather. As long as it does get here eventually though, I don’t mind.
Yeah I just went through my Amazon wishlists and threw some books (plus two movies, Dragonslayer (1981) and The Last Unicorn (1982), figuring my mother might get mad if it was all books) that weren’t particularly expensive into a new list, absolutely not expecting to get everything, but then my dad just ordered everything off it, so. I mean, hey, I’m not complaining.
Anyway, today I read this week’s reading of 極主夫道, chapters 84-85. I also read like 2 pages of 夜カフェ. And then I got distracted by Six Four sitting there on my shelf, not even directly in my line of sight or anything, so I started reading that. This is, of course, the English copy that I picked up years ago when I wanted to start reading more mysteries but then never did. If I like it, I’ll be getting the original (and I’m only a couple chapters in, but it’s good so far). It’s cool though that the inside of the front cover has the cover image of the original:
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December 23 and 24
人間椅子 -
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険59
23) 90 - 115
24) 116 - 133
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
😭
Finally read Abbacchio’s death and damn, I cried so much! I thought he was killed when ignoring the kids, but no, he was actually helping them! I was too worn out after that part to read more.
I forgot I was meaning to answer this: 現代小説
That site has absolutely horrible browsing, though. I know my way around purely from using it a ridiculous amount let’s not talk about how much money I spend on audiobooks…
edit: Also Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates
December 24 Home Post
Well I wanted to finish off the main series ブルーロック that I have before I started anything else, and with finishing volume 21 today I’ve now done that so uncertain where I’ll go from here, but I’m sure I’ll find some nonsense to get up to until the next BU$TAFELLOWS section
Also happy holidays to you all, I hope you’re having a wonderful time whatever it may entail!
Edit: I did end up doing one of the natively polls, I’ll throw it here in case any of you wanna give input, shameless promotion "What should I read next?" Megathread - #143 by natarin - Reading - Natively Forums