I was reading some manga, and there was an ad for VOMIC in it. The QR code doesn’t work any more, but I quickly found this video VOMIC ハイキュー!! (1) - ニコニコ動画
Which was fun. Looks like it was a trend 10 years ago, so Probably harder to find now a days.
The ad said Toriko, Owari no serif, HAYAKU! and assassination classroom 暗殺教室 were on this website.
I read this news article: [#]『となりのトトロ』に登場するキャラクターをイメージした「APM ネコバス」3・16運行開始 | ORICON NEWS
Glad they can reuse equipment from Tokyo Olympics. I did not realize it is 2KM between Dondon Mori and Mononoke Village. Ghibli park is big.
I read this article
[#]フードのせいで髪もっさりを解決！黒髪×ロングさんにおすすめのパーカーに合うヘアアレンジ | michill byGMO（ミチル）
Last week someone told me that an american hoodie is a パーカー, and a American Parka is a Japanese Down Coat. Fun to see it in action.
Also learned that 団子 means hair bun. I’ve seen several women with number 7, and one woman with number 10. I’ll try number 6 tomorrow.
Watched an episode of Blue Exorcist as well.
I read this news article
本命にはやめてね!? バレンタインのお返し 相手に“インパクト”与えること間違いなしの手作りお菓子が話題｜よろず〜ニュース (yorozoonews.jp)
dumb click bait. but funny. If a boy gives this to you on white day, it’s true love.
If anyone wants to decorate cornpuffs so 昆虫の幼虫のように please send pics
Read 1 chapter of D Gray Man yesterday.
My local library has Yotsuba, but not super car so I might join the Yotsuba book club.
I already did Jalup’s stage 1 Immersion [Volume 1 of Yotsuba, 日常, dragon ball, シロクマカフェ, うさぎdrop
Next is 坂本ですが in stage 2. Jalup Master - Japanese Level Up
For ＄100 you get the vocab for 14 manga series.
I think it’s a better deal if you get the bundle - 7,000 i+1 sentences 6,000 have audio read by a native speaker and definitions in Japanese lifetime For 250.
i+1 means each sentence has only 1 word you haven’t learned yet.
The full bundle contains vocab from 22 manga series.
However, given that bunpro is still growing- and Jalup isn’t. Bunpro is probably a better deal.
Hey, there! Glad to see this thread alive again!
As for me, I’m kinda following the Beginner Book Club. I’ve just finished chapter 2 of Yotsuba today while everyone else is… much further along. I just need to be more consistent with my reading.
Tonight I’m hosting passover 過越祭り. While my Japanese friends are also studying English, I’m pre-emptivly saying I’ll get plenty of speaking practice explaining everything.
I also had some speaking practice talking to the town librarian and finding out that the university has a tri lingual copy explaining 過越祭り in Hebrew, English and Japanese and I could go to their library and read it there, but can’t check it out. I also got an email from the publisher that this book from 2010 is already out of print.
Fortunately my kanji deck includes 奴隷 cause I’ll need that word a lot… (And I don’t /want/ to teach them that English word)
Watched an episode of Blue Exorcist. Why do they invent magic blood sucking moths when mosquitos already exist?
I watched another episode of Blue Exorcist on Netflix today,
and played 4 hours of ライザのアトリエ 〜常闇の女王と秘密の隠れ家〜 It’s pretty and chill.
Lately since it’s been getting warmer out, I like to listen to easy Japanese podcasts for learners when I go out on walks. Depending on how long I walk, I can get in anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minutes+ of passive immersion time. But my mind tends to wander away when I walk, so I’ll have to replay the episode again…and sometimes again… Thankfully the episodes are short!
Played Final Fantasy.
I recommend trying a Japanese RPG
If you miss something, there is a わかりやすい explanation in the quests log
Played more Final Fantasy 14 this weekend (level 32 ファイター level 40 料理師)
My husband recommended that I switch to English, because Final Fantasy 14 is less fun if you don’t get the story.
I think instead, I’ll read the main story quest and cut scenes(in Japanese). But any other quests I’ll skip the dialogue and check the journal after.
Last night I suddenly had an urge to play Animal Crossing New Horizons for the first time in, uh, two years. After I cleaned up my island and talked to my neighbors to let them know I was still alive, I made a new character on another Switch profile. The immersion part? I switched to Japanese when creating the new character.
It was… it went… 
It was exhausting! I had to look up so MUCH! Dialog which would have taken me about 15 or so minutes in English took me nearly an hour! I’ll try playing in Japanese some other time!
You’ve just made me realise I can change Dragon Quest into Japanese, it’s already a long and epic journey in English, changing it to Japanese will only make it all the more grander 
Playing Final Fantasy 14 in Japanese felt great! I’m going to try spending more time on immersion and less time on reviews from now on. I might come back to bunpro if I’m struggling with grammar, or I might hire a tutor for ‘An intergrated guide to Japanese’ which I bought but haven’t opened.
I’ve been feeling the itch to play some Pokémon lately. I should go start up a game in Japanese. The only question is, which version?
I’ve never tried Animal Crossing, what’s the gameplay on that one like?
Animal Crossing is basically a life simulator with animal neighbors, but much more relaxed than regular life: it’s what people call a “cozy game.” The premise of every AC game is that you move to a new town and you do a variety of everyday tasks. You can catch fish and bugs, collect shells, decorate your town/island, decorate your house, talk to your neighbors, donate items to the town museum (they take fish, bugs, fossils, and artwork), and so on. There’s a ton of dialogue, so it’s good reading practice. From what I’ve gathered from your posts here, I think this would be a good game for you. It’s low-stakes and you can just pick it up for a few minutes here and there.
As for Pokémon, my recommendations are largely based on what you have access to. I would recommend the 3DS games, just because I like them better. 
But since the 3DS and its games are discontinued (RIP), let’s just focus on the Switch games. Now, for most of the games, there are in hiragana, but with the option to turn on kanji but without furigana. Scarlet and Violet, however, have kanji with furigana which is a more learner-friendly option. The best part about the games is that you can choose the game language at the start of the game: this is true for all 3DS and Switch Pokémon games. This way, the game can be in Japanese even with English Switch settings.
Sorry for the long post! I hope that helped at all!
Thanks for the info on Animal Crossing. I’ll have to try to find a copy.
Pokémon will have to be a switch title since I have English playthroughs on the 3DS titles and I can never bring myself to delete them. I didn’t realize Scarlet and Violet had furigana., though. That’d be super helpful!
I brushed of my XP Navi.
1 XP ~ 1 minute of Japanese
So far this month I have:
260 Listening XP from talking to Japanese people
And watching Blue Exorcist without subs
87 Reading XP reading manga [forgot the name, it’s in hiragana started with ちは, cover is main character’s face with lip gloss…]
And playing FFXIV
100 Study XP from doing my reviews
I got an ad for this manga reader.
https://booklive.jp/index/no-charge
Try it out if you like like manga
I spent the day at a dance Festival
Probably got about 60 listening XP spending the whole day with my dance team
I also got 50 study XP from doing my reviews