Yeah, I didn’t even get through the whole song before forgetting 笑
終わった
- 熱帯魚 8-9 - glad I reread the series. Cried a bit in final volume. Appreciated the ending a lot more this time around (due to life experience I didn’t have the first time around). Think ppl who call it bait are being quite unreasonable
- 百合姫2024年9月 - the one shot was interesting. I’m all caught up for the year now, till next week
(besides 踊り場, the android series, and スピカ, where I’m still behind the 2024 magazines) - ささ恋 10 + anthology - were both great (the former I already knew)
- 月姫 8 - not in any rush to start vol 9
- AKB0048 S1 | L27 - wasn’t as bad as MyGO (I even enjoyed at times, and the last 4 eps were solid), but definitely won’t watch again. I wonder whether having subs would have improved my opinion
- 時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん S1 | L27 - I’ve been thinking about whether I should switch this to subs. I can get it enough, but I don’t like that I’m missing some things
August Listening Challenge
I’m up to 22.4 / 50 hrs so far. This has been quite the challenge. I’ve tried some new things, and learned that I really don’t like audio without text for things that have text. Additionally, unlike reading above my comfort level, I feel like audio above my comfort level is really not productive for vocab acquisition. So ironically, audio with text is more beneficial to improving my listening skills 気がする
Audiobooks: 裏世界ピクニック | L32 was the most productive, including the portion of ch 1 that I haven’t read yet… but I don’t like going ahead of my current position. SAO 1 felt very inefficient without the text (largely all the 熟語), so I dropped that fast. 君の名は | L30 felt really disorienting, despite having read the manga twice, and watched the movie. ポーション頼みで生き延びます! 1 | L28 seemed possibly interesting, but I wasn’t in the mood for another isekai.
Drama CDs: Tried some Fate & 空の軌跡, but in general these feel hard b/c I get bored very quickly, and have trouble focusing without something visual. For some reason I don’t have as much trouble with radio shows… tho even there I have to actively concentrate, a lot of the time
Radio Shows: besides the usual (ガルクラ、ささ恋、ぼっち) I tried the わたゆり one, but DNF’d after 10 min… not bad, but not for me. Thankfully I’m way behind on ぼっち, and ガルクラ has a new one every week… so I’ve got material there. I haven’t felt inclined to try Re:Zero or 鬼滅の刃, even tho those have been in my 音泉 bookmarks for a while
Anime: Carnival Phantasm 1-8 (コメンタリーなし、コメンタリーあり) was interesting. I can understand it a bit better now than in Jan/Feb. The commentary was very hit or miss - sometimes great, and once or twice I just plain skipped or DNF’d. Definitely would not listen to a second time (whereas I will Carnival Phantasm itself never gets old). AKB0048 comprehension was very mixed… sometimes lack of interest didn’t help, but subs would have been very nice. ロシデレ (Alya/Russian show) is less than I’d like… probly between 85-90%?
Reading
Fate/Stay Night: is going well enough. I’m playing side-by-side w/ EN translation on Switch, and OG version on PC. As usual, hard vocab and kanji (occasionally ones I’ve never seen outside of Fate/Stay Night). The grammar generally feels better this time around… I don’t always get it, but now when I look at the translation and look back, it usually makes sense pretty quickly. As opposed to last time where I had to really ponder a lot of the sentences. I’m still in the portion of the game I played earlier this year tho, and still have to take it in small doses
Novels: Started making progress on わたおし | L32 again. It’s honestly not that interesting at this point, but it’s also not that hard. So it works in a “read for a little bit” way. If I wasn’t 56% through, I’d probly drop it… but like I may as well finish it. 裏世界ピクニック | L32 is 8-10 pgs per lesson, which is frustratingly slow. If my reading pace doesn’t start getting faster in the next month, I think I’ll start picking something easier to do in lessons, b/c I don’t wanna be reading this book forever.
I wish audio + text counted for the listening challenge, cuz then I’d be going through 転生王女と天才令嬢の魔法革命 | L33 a lot more
I also started making progress on 空の軌跡 playthrough again. On vid 5/45
