My goals were:
- Read 2 non-furigana manga: In total I finished 6 manga across 3 different series. Ironically it lead less to “without being able to use Yomichan” than “finding out how to use mokuro to use Yomichan with manga too”, but after figuring out good tooling, I’m definitely not scared of furigana-less manga anymore.
- L27+ book: I read Kino no Tabi at L29. (But it was really hard and took such a long time - I think I’ll slowly work my way up to it instead of forcing such a jump again.)
- Finish up Yokai Watch 1: I didn’t - but that was because I started doing lots and lots of side quests, which involve a ton of reading too. I’m a bit afraid that I’ll lose interest once I finish the main storyline, so I want to play a lot of side quests before I do that. Technically I can’t give this one a checkmark, but I did play much, much more than what would’ve been necessary to simply finish the main storyline, so I feel like I’ve definitely followed the spirit of the goal.
Also I’m on track to achieving my secret goal that I haven’t told anybody about: Reading every single day of 2023! Some days were just “Oh man, I have to go to bed and didn’t read yet, guess I’ll just read one page.”, but on many others I read half an hour, an hour, or more.
For 2024, I don’t have any super specific goals. Reading every day again would be nice. Finally finishing the last bit of N3 on Bunpro, and maybe the first third of N2 would be cool too.
And, uh, getting through this pile and then keeping it up this time:
My biggest problem with reading is definitely my small vocabulary, so I hope to get back into SRS. It’s such an effective tool.
If only it wasn’t so tedious. 
