Really cannot be overstated that the first chapter of her story is a delirious murder sequence followed by squishing...something on a wall and twisting into the most contorted, cat-like pose so she can lick it

I feel like batter would make the most sense to me even with it being cooked

This is kinda why I object to MTPE on principle. MTL output fundamentally lacks this understanding. And unless you reach into the guts and reconstruct it (which imo is the defining quality of TRANSLATING), the final product will be human-polished but built on the garbled internal logic of a machine

that sounds painful

This was funny. I will never use emojis

She really does just pull that ult spear thing right out of her mouth huh

To me, it's just the unsolicited nature of it. Packaging design is more about making sure I have a nicer experience with something I've already chosen to devote my attention to. An ad is actively trying to get in my way to sell me something, which is obnoxious even if it looks pretty

Thank you! Honestly, it kinda feels like a technicality that I passed N1 - I don't think I was at the linguistic level people associate with the qualification at the time, I just slammed a bunch of kanji and vocab - but it was still a great capstone to a year of genuinely hard study

Honestly, one of the reasons I'm reluctant to give out Japanese study advice is because the deciding factor in my journey was "I was lucky and privileged enough to spend a year studying Japanese for 12+ hours a day at minimal personal expense" so there's a limit to how relevant my experiences can be

Although I will admit I probably shouldn't have passed the N1 when I did. I'm confident I could do it on merit now, but my original pass was more evidence of how much the JLPT rewards memorizable knowledge than a testament to my practical language skills

I went back to it and almost beat the world 3 boss so maybe I do have what it takes after all

I already did the trek up to the 6th floor of Trader, I ain't going back for round 2

oh damn I was just out there, we may well have passed each other