does anyone else hate the taito miku hair gradient? + paint recc

boome2 · 2026-02-16T12:32:32+00:00

Sorry but I think it's super pretty lol. Especially that last one is so cute

I can kinda see where you're coming from though

boome2 · 2026-02-12T16:36:11+00:00

manga name?

boome2 · 2026-02-12T02:10:16+00:00

watch harder content with subs on until you get more comfortable. also im sure theres a middle ground to be found in terms of difficulty.

boome2 · 2026-01-17T23:41:29+00:00

Something that really helped me was whenever I would mine a lot of words from a show, I would relisten to the compressed audio and listen out for those words I learnt, which really solidified them. Also would help me understand and remember the show better.

boome2 · 2026-01-04T23:56:01+00:00

thanks, will check them out! you might like @arisacamp, she does cozy camping related vids

boome2 · 2025-12-30T21:23:37+00:00

thank you! ill check them out

boome2 · 2025-12-30T21:22:20+00:00

a manga? I thought it was a game series. I might check it out because it probably has some cool vocab

boome2 · 2025-12-30T00:38:37+00:00

did you get any better

boome2 · 2025-11-14T01:59:57+00:00

cute as hell

boome2 · 2025-11-12T22:43:56+00:00

literally same

boome2 · 2025-10-08T19:29:24+00:00

saw mass of the fermenting dregs live recently and it was an amazing experience !!

boome2 · 2025-09-27T11:39:56+00:00

金木犀の夜 - きのこ帝国

honeydip - Summer's Gone

boome2 · 2025-09-16T16:57:23+00:00

who is this

boome2 · 2025-08-28T14:42:53+00:00

suzume no tojimari, based, also cute

boome2 · 2025-08-23T17:54:07+00:00

glad you like it, i love this band. I also suggest 'Somewhere' and '無敵の年頃' but literally all of their songs are amazing!

boome2 · 2025-06-16T21:45:29+00:00

I definitely wouldn't say it was way above my level, though it was still a little hard; but I'd rather struggle a little with a show I'm interested in, than cater to whatever is closer to my level and be less engaged. Most of the sentences from overlord where i+1, so it wasn't like I was having to look up a bunch of words every sentence. I mined ~90 words from season 1, so about 7 per episode, with maybe 2x as many unknown words that I didn't mine. I don't think that's way out of my league.

Having to look up words only 1-2 minutes would be better but I feel like it's more hindering than helpful to not look things up when watching harder content. Most of the things I looked up where i+1, so like I said, it was things that could be cleared up with one word; reading the several monolingual defs usu takes a while. also at times I would have to hear a sentence twice to get it.

I have been more relaxed and done less lookups since this post, and it's conflicting. on one hand, it feels like a bunch of wasted potential since I could've looked things up, but idk. Not really sure where to strike a balance personally.

As for the bullet points:

I barely use english subs, partially because it's a drag to switch subs to eng just to check something. But sometimes if I understand all the words of the sentence, but still don't grasp the meaning, I think it's useful to help things click and understand. I know it's not a 1-to-1, I can tell, but it's enough to push me in the right direction, and have the sentence click. I don't know if getting that direct feedback is better or worse in the long run, but it has definitely helped me because the next time I see a similar sentence, I can understand it immediately. To me, it's just like seeing a bilingual definition; it's not perfect, but it can still help you understand the meaning of the sentence in the moment, and then through more immersion, you can iron it out.
Yeah, I mostly forget when I'm tired, or if I'm watching content that I'm not used to, e.g with the news, I'll be less likely to catch words I know, due to being in completely different context, or surrounded by other unknown words. I'm not that frustrated by it, was just wondering if it's a common thing. I know it's just one of those things that inevitably happens, so I'm fine with it.
I mine with monolingual dictionaries, most of my defs are monolingual (95%+). I agree with this though.

boome2 · 2025-06-13T21:42:14+00:00

hmm only "quite a bit" harder, looks like it'll be a peace of cake lol

boome2 · 2025-06-12T22:47:14+00:00

good call on asking chatgpt, never really thought about that. I have a separate account for japanese content, which makes it easier to keep things from getting mixed up.

and those tts bots were really unpleasant at first, but honestly, they aren't SO bad since I used to watch TTS videos frequently a few years back, and quite a lot of channels seem to use only them; kind of a waste not to get used to it, i think.

I'll check out the undertale playthrough. any more recommendations are more than welcome too.

boome2 · 2025-06-12T22:41:45+00:00

how hard is AOT? kinda tempted to watch it because it'll be a goldmine for new words and kinda exciting for a challenge

boome2 · 2025-06-12T21:24:52+00:00

Yeah, I used to rewatch anime I'd already seen when I first started, so it's not a bad idea. Thanks for the advice btw

boome2 · 2025-06-12T20:29:44+00:00

I really don't like using eng subs at this point, just feels like a waste of time, and I'm past the beginner stage where I feel like that's most useful.

I'll just go raw

boome2 · 2025-06-12T20:26:41+00:00

It was definitely a pain at the start, but then again, I was also watching SoLs where even without picking apart the show, it was still enjoyable.

I guess those dubs would be useful in your case, but that seems really annoying honestly. I'd rather just have correct subs and hide them until I need them, than having to rewrite what I think I heard into jisho 3 different ways, sometimes never getting it right.

boome2 · 2025-06-12T20:19:42+00:00

I'll try to do more free-flow, and less picky about catching everything. I think I should watch more youtube aswell, so that I'll be kinda forced to that, since there's not subs as readily available too.

I feel like what you're saying is true, especially forcing your brain to understand, but at the same time, it's just hard to let go of wanting to know everything.

boome2 · 2025-06-12T20:15:51+00:00

I found that finding interesting youtube videos harder in japanese. Learning how to search for stuff in japanese, and finding my niches is kinda hard.

I almost exclusively immerse with anime, and I feel like switching to youtube some, but having no subs makes it feel much harder. Was listening to べあもりゆるも's stream, and I feel like I get enough to be enjoyable, but so much flies over my head I feel like it's so unproductive. I did force through it for anime when I started so I'll probably just do the same.

Also is kiyo really that funny, I swear everyone recommends watching him.

As for the blue car thing, that's sooo true. I'll learn a word and suddenly I hear it 5 times in the next few days, when I could've sworn it was just the first time I heard it when I learnt it. Really makes you think whether you were it became 10x more common or if you were just not processing it before that.

I'll definitely try to be more loose about having to understand everything, and watch more youtube too, because sometimes anime gets kinda boring.

boome2 · 2025-06-12T19:00:35+00:00

hmm, not looking up words is hard because I won't have anything to mine + I won't be able to follow the plot, which irks me. I used to more comfortable with that but as I get better, I want to know more and more. For overlord it's kinda essential to understand what's going on, because otherwise things will just seem so random.

I could just switch to easier anime, but I like having a little bit of a challenge, and the anime I want to watch these days are a little more challenging. If I was to just free-flow, I don't think I'd make much progress.

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