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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn’t teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.

    I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.

    I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I’ve been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I’m doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven’t found a good resource for that just yet.






  • Yeah R-A-G is trash lol. I am a slice of life / comedy / romance whore, but god are a lot of them crap. Romance in particular is fucking all over the place, quality-wise. If you like Dress-Up Darling I’d recommend Makeine if you haven’t seen it, I feel like they have a similar feel and they’re both in my top ten shows for sure. Bunny-Girl Senpai is of course very similar to Monogatari thematically, though the latter is MUCH crazier and darker. Actually pretty similar in look and vibe to Call of the Night too, I think the director of that also did at least some of Monogatari. And if you’re looking for actually good harem, I’d recommend Quintessential Quintuplets and of course the delightfully unhinged 100 Girlfriends.