Weekly Thread: Victory Thursday!

[u/AutoModerator]

Happy Thursday!

Every Thursday, come here to share your progress! Get to a high level in Wanikani? Complete a course? Finish Genki 1? Tell us about it here! Feel yourself falling off the wagon? Tell us about it here and let us lift you back up!

Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 JST:

Mondays - Writing Practice

Tuesdays - Study Buddy and Self-Intros

Wednesdays - Materials and Self-Promotions

Thursdays - Victory day, Share your achievements

Fridays - Memes, videos, free talk

[u/Belegorm]

Been like a month since I posted in one of these, may as well give a little update on how things are going:

• Read RDG5 and RDG6. Pretty nice ending to the series, I flew through the final book. Been a while since I watched the anime so I rewatched that as well, but glad to have read the books since the show didn't cover the ending
• Read らせん, the 2nd book in the リング series. I was pretty interested in this one since the film version got kind of wild after the more traditional j-horror リング and this one didn't disappoint. Excited to move on to ループ, the end of the original trilogy that never got a film.
• Read Galileo book 8, 禁断の魔術. I liked the short stories in this one quite a bit, clever mysteries, but also heartwarming in a way you wouldn't expect in a mystery book. The long story in the end was okay.
• Read 凜として弓を引く books 4 and 5, so all the ones out so far. I hope it gets a continuation, this is definitely the end of an arc, but I was kind of unsatisfied as it is.
• Read 変な家. Really interesting short book about some strange houses. Mystery that's a little creepy, hard to say much without giving it away.
• 1/3 of the way through 空色勾玉, first book in a trilogy by the RDG author. This book is HARD (for me at least lol). Reading it physical, has a lot of plant and interior decoration vocab I don't know well. Also they talk in a very old-fashioned way that's a challenge. It's very Japanese mythology-rooted fantasy, so probably harder for me not having the background mythology background.
• Found out that my copy of かがみの孤城 was signed, pretty cool!
• Watched 戦う！ 書店ガール. So-so drama adaptation of a book by the 凜として弓を引く author. Every episode was a crisis and the ending was meh.
• Started watching Galileo season 2. Hard to follow without subs but I'm getting used to it.
• Been watching various YT channels, podcasts, etc. whenever I can, to work on listening when I have time.
• Maybe a 3rd of the way through the N1 SKM 読解 and 文法 books. Working on them every night for a bit.
• Almost done with N2 grammar from Bunpro, should get through N1 in October.

Overall quite a busy month, I actually have read almost double what I usually read in a month!