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I've kinda fallen off the Japanese learning wagon lately. Its been a bit discouraging because my ability to read katakana is pretty bad and I have gotten pretty rusty at hiragana.

I stopped practicing mainly because I've been having trouble figuring out how to proceed. I had mostly memorized most of the kana (aside from those ones), but I find learning kanji/vocabulary with Anki too frustrating.

But recently I've been trying to get back into it. I've started catching up ...

You ever get the urge to waste time making a fate rpg, only to realize that magic is, well, completely handwaved?

That's me today.

I noticed a weird discrepancy between LNs and their illustrations that seems to crop up a lot.

I first noticed it in (cokesakto's) translation of KnK. Art: Red jacket. Description: Black jacket.
This wasn't consistent, so I chalked it up to translator error.

Then I saw the same thing in Boogiepop. Art: Purple cloak. Description: Black cloak.

I've seen this happen a few other times, too. So is this just translation problems? Artists taking creative liberties? ...

When you feel safe, BOOM!
And as the dust fades, you think:
“Welp, that's the last one.”

I haven't really played Actress Again since Type Lumina came out. So I decided to try my hand at it again.
Turns out, MBTL is great training for its predecessor: I can officially beaten Archetype Earth crescent and full (against the computer, which is mor competent than TL's).
In retrospect, MBAACC is a better game, mostly. Those auto-combo thingies were aggravating from the start, since they are super easy to accidentally trigger when playing (and they inadvertently nerf Kohaku), but ...