Fire Emblem (Three Houses): I dropped this back then (Nov 2023), and now (Mar 2024) it feels very comprehensible. Still an occasional word or two I don’t know, and it takes me a bit to get certain things (tho I’m partially convinced this is just the early game instructions, and getting used to the game). Anyway, it doesn’t feel like a “learning project”, which is both cool and weird. I’m not 100% sold on the game just yet, but I’m enjoying it more this time around. Not sure how much I should/will play it.
SeaBed: Joined in on Home thread for SeaBed - informal Visual Novel Book Club (like I needed another thing to read… 
), and it’s been really easy grammatically/comprehension-wise, and pretty mixed vocabulary wise. I tried a text hooker for the first time, and extracted a portion of the text, and turned it into a jpdb deck (using the text hooker in real time was aggravating, as I suspected). That added about 125 words. I definitely find it more annoying/draining than just reading a normal book, but still kinda cool.
クラにか web novel: the book club for this is starting in 6 days… which I’m sorta not psyched about, b/c I’m reading so much other stuff rn… but at least it will be a pretty quick read, since I’ve already read book 1 twice. Curious to see how the web novel compares I guess, and how many things I have to lookup… Though I wonder if anyone else will even participate… if not, I probably won’t start it for a while
Sailor Moon: I’m 15 eps into 美少女戦士セーラームーン Sailor Stars | L24 now, and it feels a bit harder than previous seasons. I do per-episode jpdb for like 5 eps in advance (sometimes while watching lol). Also watched a bit of 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season III: Death Busters | L28 as well, which was good reinforcement for the manga. 劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos 後編 | L28 (which matches the arc I’m in now) was harder, and would have been a struggle without the subs. Guess I’ll get to learn those words in the corresponding manga volume(s). Also rereading 美少女戦士セーラームーン | L25 and then getting to the rest of the series. It’s been really enjoyable doing all this Sailor Moon, though the downside is that I haven’t been keeping up with novels too much. The main challenge of the manga for me is actually all the hiragana, and a bit the handwriting. My reading speed definitely slows down from it - so it’s good practice.
花物語: Finished あやめ in 花物語 上 | L39 and next up is 山梔の花, which has 84 words left.
SAO 6: Still doing the SAO 6 deck as well, but haven’t read any more of it yet. There’s 2011 new words left in that, so assuming I do actually read it, I’ll definitely finish the book first. Probly won’t make any real decision on that till after I finish Sailor Moon anime at least.
