2025 Goals
1825 hours of immersion and study
Watch 12 Japanese dramas with Japanese subtitles
Complete my TBR — 5 hardcopy and 18 e-books which I had already purchased so that I can buy more books! 
Amongst the 23 books listed above, 8 are Japanese language textbooks/workbooks with English or Korean explanations. Only 15 are fully in Japanese.
Finished 8 books in December 2024 (started one of these books on 27 Nov though).
Just bought another 30 Detective Conan light novels to continue my reading habit in 2025. 
Oops… 
I bought a total of 37 books in the end due to the sale. Enough books to last me at least two years.
I had wanted to participate in the Bingo 2025 but after 10 days, I noticed that there are too many prompts which I have no intention to read. So, it’s better for me not to participate in it.
Instead, I’ll just read freely from all the books I had purchased as I know I’ll enjoy them more than forcing myself to read something that I know I will not enjoy.
You could do what I did and cut it down to a 4x4 board. I also didn’t care for all the prompts, but also I only read about 25 books a year and didn’t want to push short stories and whatnot into the squares to get bingos.
You could also swap out whatever prompts don’t interest you for new ones; I did something similar.
Thank you for the suggestion.
I tried but it would mean that almost half of them would be different from the winning prompts and it will just be equivalent to fitting my TBR into the Bingo card instead.
My target is to complete the whole Detective Conan light novel series.
Started these two books on 30 Dec 2024 and completed them yesterday. Will be adding them into my list of books completed in 2025. 
Decided to join the Bingo challenge again after seeing everyone updating theirs 
. I’ll just see if I manage to complete a row with my current TBR.
Passed JLPT N2 level after 18 months of self-study.
I started learning Japanese language for fun because I became a big fan of ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子 in 2023. My goal is to be able to watch Japanese dramas without relying on subtitles and I still have a looooong way to go. I stopped being her fan for almost a year now and I’m now more into Detective Conan novels.
So, I’m wondering if I should sign up for JLPT N1 test in Dec 2025 to push myself to study harder and learn faster, or just spend more time watching dramas and reading novels and take it easy. 
This goal is not going well.
I find that I didn’t learn much from watching dramas that I can understand, i.e., romantic comedies, and I get bored with such stories after a while.
I still prefer crime investigations/legal dramas even though I can’t understand fully without English subtitles. So, I will just watch these dramas with English subtitles. At least, I get to enjoy the dramas and I can check whether I had understood the dialogues properly by taking a glance at the English subtitles.
I’m currently watching 無能の鷹. It’s really funny 
Around what level are you watching?
Availability will vary but for easier crime type shows:
Thanks. I haven’t watched these before. I just checked and found that none of these is available where I live though.
The eternal trouble with dramas 
Yeah, it’s hard to find Japanese dramas legally here. Unlike Korean dramas, we get the latest ones within an hour after the episode finished being aired in Korea.
But still, I learned Korean by watching dramas with English subtitles. I don’t think I could have learnt anything at all if I just watch them without subtitles or with Korean subtitles.
Seems like I had run out of good Japanese dramas to watch after watching over a hundred of them for the past 20 months.
Even the dating reality shows are not as interesting as the Korean ones.
So I’m now thinking to watch YouTube vlogs to improve my listening skills. If you know any interesting ones, especially about decluttering and minimalism, please let me know. Thank you in advance 
Does hoarding cleanup fall under decluttering? I’ve definitely watched a channel dedicated to cleaning hoarder apartments
I watch a ton of Japanese YouTube but not much in that space unfortunately
Yes, cleaning up hoarders’ houses, reorganizing … let me know if there are anything suitable. Thank you. 
I’ve seen a bunch of this channel’s videos. It varies how much talking there is. Same for this other channel although I haven’t watched them as recently:
Thank you!!!
