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The manga (and one manwa) I am reading are all still in progress.The two official Touhou ones running both look like they're getting close to the end. One I have been following that releases a chapter once every two to four months took a detour for the last year or two and finally circled its way back to its main plot and premise. Another manga I have been enjoying releases about four or five chapters once every year and a half before disappearing again, so that's been kind of annoying. Almost all of these stories, save for Touhou, are GL.

Anime-wise, I haven't been watching much of anything of late. I tried watching Akiba Maid Wars because it piqued my interest at first. Then it lost my interest not four episodes in, and I just looked up a full plot summary on the rest of the series. I liked the animation quality and how over-the-top it was, but the plot and characters made me feel like the writers could only bargain-bin some archetypes and contrived situations and call it a day.

I decided to replay DQXI, and try to finish it this time. I'm liking the characters and plot a little more this time around, and I'm not sure if it's because I have the audio set to Japanese or if I'm just more receptive to it this time around. The music is still unnecessarily loud; like I bring it down to the first level with everything else at around 3 or 4. Since I'm doing it on Steam, I'm using a trainer to at least cut down the grind of exp, gold, and items, so the whole thing should take 30-ish hours or less instead of a hundred or more. It's not as bad as the first Dragon Warrior where starting with the best of everything plus maxed stats makes it take less than one hour to play. lol

Oh yeah, and I'm finally learning Japanese after putting it off for a couple decades. I'm growing comfortable with the hiragana text and some of the grammar I've learned so far. I had actually started with the kanji for numbers ichi through kyu, and practiced said kanji with sudoku puzzles. That was fun. It turned out after the fact that 1-10, 100, and 10,000 are among the hundred-ish recommended kanji for JPLT N5, so yay for progress made. The reason I finally decided to startb learning the language in earnest? Well there are two:

For one, I'm still writing my Touhou doujin story, and I hope to one day interact with the Japanese fanbase of the Touhou series in addition to the English side of the community, with or without my big story being the subject of discussion. Second, I've taken a liking to the motormouthed, somewhat lewd, and fellow Touhou player among Hololive's talents - Houshou Marine. I'd love to be able to understand her more without subtitles.

So that is my update for the year, I guess. haha