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Bell pepper filled with a bulgur-feta mix
Well, filled and overflowing :P
Got my JLPT N5 certificate in the mail today :)
Spent the whole day today writing a metadata tagger for manga. Grabs data via the APIs of MyAnimeList and Comic Vine, combines them and writes a ComicInfo.xml to the CBZ archive
I previously used a weird existing Python ("MangaTagger") program plus a GUI application ("comictagger") to fix up the data, but that was annoying
My own thing now does exactly what I want
Well, mostly. There's no good source for age ratings, for example
New anime season. First in line for me: Needy Girl Overdose
Apparently a critic of Japanese society and idol culture, through the eyes of a suicidal, drug taking internet streamer
And just judging from the first episode: "subtext, what is subtext?"
That's not meant to be entirely dismissive either. Not just what to make of it yet... But it does have some "this is edgy art! roar!" vibes. I mean they literally have a Clockwork Orange milkbar scene, complete with namedropping "ultraviolence"
Also, yeah, Serial Experiments Lain is very obviously a major influence as well. If they do it justice... remains to be seen
Also, for everyone wanting to see it, content warning for self-harm, suicide, drugs, sexual assault
This is not a fun show
...I guess it's been a while that we last managed to actually meet to play this module...
Call me slow, but I just now got the pun of Okarun's balls in Dandadan being golden balls... 金玉, kintama, is literally golden ball, but also a slang term for testicles
I just never questioned that while watching the anime. Came upon kintama in a different context, remembered Dandadan and now it makes sense...
In a fit of hubris, I bought the first volume of the Yotsuba manga. In Japanese
I read the first couple of pages. I get about...90%? It's not that bad
However... I have issues *reading* it, from a vision standpoint. It's so small, the furigana especially! I'm old and I have -12 dioptre!
Another week of Ikoku Nikki / Journal with Witch throwing punches directly into the stomach
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TIL the difference between 聞く and 聴く
Both are pronounced きく, kiku, both mean to hear
But 聴く is more like to listen, hearing something actively, while 聞く is hearing something incidentally
There's also 訊く, also kiku, to ask/inquire
From what I understand, it's still the same verb, and you can use 聞く for all of them, but using 聴 or 訊 adds connotations
Government forms and petitions apparently use 聴く for asking something, to add the connotation of intently listening to an opinion?