Study Blog: Daily Updates from a Daily Man

[rdennison7]

Entry the first - July 19th, 2025

Hello, everyone! Long time no see – frankly, I haven’t met any of you, so long time, no posting on the good ol’ Bunpro forums.

I often scour the forums and noticed a huge uptick in study blogs. As a person who doesn’t want to be left out of the latest trends, I figured I would give my own spin at this. But to be fair, I am too busy focusing on my studies for college, so Japanese has taken a backseat in my life.

Recently, I have started studying Japanese, but this time from the very beginning. I want this blog to greatly detail the painful minutiae of what little I study Japanese right now. Maybe you will see some character development as things progress. Maybe you too will learn a thing or two about how the world works. For example, did you know that in Japan, they speak Japanese there? Would be a crazy good place to learn that language! I was personally shocked to know that in Australia, they don’t speak Australian.

My personal prejudices aside, what did I study today? Goodness me, that’s a great question. Today I did a whopping 5 reviews on Bunpro that took about 30 seconds. I can’t say that I am a Bunpro speedrunner yet, but maybe if we can get others to join, we can get a speedrunning community going.

Here’s a picture of my sweet gains as of July 19th. Not to brag, but I can see the end in sight.

Anyway, that’s all from me today! What will I learn tomorrow? Will it be Japanese? Maybe it’s discrete mathematics? Whatever it may be, rest assured all of you on the Bunpro forums will know in painstaking detail.

[rdennison7]

Entry the second - July 20th, 2025

It’s a Sunday once again! Can you believe it?

Today was an absolute grind fest for my reviews. I knocked out a solid and steady 3 reviews in a record-breaking 15 seconds. I don’t actually keep a timer of my reviews, but rest assured, they are most definitely an educated guess.

I did add some kanji and vocab to my Anki decks for study through Bunpro, but who cares about my Japanese studies? That’s pretty boring stuff!

In more important news, I finally saw the Bunpro item shop for the first time and made some top tier purchases. From my previous Bunpro escapades, I racked up over 40,000 BunBux (Technically, they are called B-Points (hyphen inclusive (nested parenthesis!)) and I humbly disagree with the naming scheme.) and I would love to share with you my purchases.

Firstly, I had to purchase the fabled “Jump Game” pin resembling the Famicom classic, -REDACTED BY NINTENDO OF JAPAN-. I really wonder if this Jump Game guy will play a larger role in the lore in the Bunpro cinematic universe. Time will tell.

Just look at him! Not a mustache or a care in the world.

Secondly, I also made a purchase of the “I Fukuoka” title. Now, I have never been to Fukuoka, and I’m ashamed to admit I chose it solely because my maturity level hasn’t surpassed that of a schoolboy, but man did saying “Fukuoka” put a smile on my face followed by a short chuckle.

In combination, my profile is looking pretty snazzy now and represents me as a special snowflake caught in the blizzard of individuality.

That’s all for me today, folks. It’s been nice documenting my Japanese journey and sharing it with you all. This is a long and exciting journey but I just like saying journey a lot and wasting your time reading this. Carry on, my wayward sons.

[rdennison7]

Entry the third - July 21st, 2025

It’s a Monday once again! Can you believe it?

Today was a monumental event for my reviews. After a day of not making tremendous progress, I managed to increase my N5 progress to 9/126!

Just look at that sucker. WOW.

So if it takes at least two days to do one grammar point, and there are only 906 left for me to do, that means by July 30th, 2030, I will be a NihonPro. (Btw, feel free to trademark that one, Bunpro devs. Eventually, you gotta go beyond grammar.) I’m already starting to feel like I’m turning into a Japanese person. I’m thinking in Japanese. Not much, mind you, but eventually I will transform and have a cool animation sequence to follow it.

Speaking of sheer professionalism, I just realized a rather cool-- perhaps even fun-- fact about a game I was playing earlier today (not in Japanese). I was replaying Bayonetta on the PS4 and discovered that if you press the R2 and Options buttons simultaneously, it skips cutscenes immediately!

For the few people who have played this game and were frustrated as heck by manually skipping cutscenes, this revelation is a godsend! I’ve been playing this game for over 15 years and just learned about it today. Boy howdy, it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders learning that.

Just to make sure I wasn’t being a complete moron, I carefully combed through the game’s original manual (in English-- I do have the Japanese version somewhere in my closet, but my curiosity isn’t that strong, mind you), and this button combination wasn’t there!

I then checked the FuturePress strategy guide, which is like 350 pages, and that button combination wasn’t in there either.

Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “Why did you check a 350-page strategy guide for this button combination but not spend two minutes looking in your closet for the Japanese version of the manual?” And to that I say, “You got me.”

Well, that was a heck of a tangent, now wasn’t it? But if you ever happen to play Bayonetta 1–3, you’ll now know my little trick. It might save you some time-- and maybe make you a better person overall. Isn’t that the goal for all of us on this pale blue dot?

Per audacia ad astra, everyone.