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I made a little black cat plush UwU.

Death Note - Vocab list #1

As I said yesterday, I bought the first two parts of the Death Note manga series in Japanese and so far I only read through the first 13 pages and wrote down the (heaps of) new vocab. 

The list is extremely long so yeah, deal with it :D

死神・しにがみ・Shinigami (Death God)

死神界・しにがみかい・Shinigami realm

同じ・おなじ・same

毎日、同じ事の・まいにち、おなじことの・a phrase like “Everyday is the same”

世・よ・world/society

人間・にんげん・human

人間界・にんげんかい・human world

腐ってる・くさってる・Godan verb: to rot  (btw 腐女子　is the kanji version of fujoshi (yaoi lover) and 腐男子　（fudanshi) is the male counterpart)

 繰り返し・くりかえし・repetition/repeatedly/cycle

僕・ぼく・male first person pronoun

勝ち・かち・victory (ex. 僕の勝ちだ・I win (lit. it is my victory))

五日・いつか・fifth day (of the month)

不毛・ふもう・unproductive/sour

ぜ・sentence ending to add force or command

ちまう・Godan verb: do something completely, ex. follows

落とし・おとし・loss/drop (デスノート落としちまった・I completely lost (dropped the Death Note (this sentence is weird to directly translate))

落とす・おとす・to drop (godan verb)

冊・さつ・counter for books (ex: 一冊・いつさつ・one book)

今度・こんど・this time

者・もの・person

夜神・やがみ・Night God (Light´s last name)

戦い・たたかい・struggle/conflict

直訳・ちょくやく・literal translation

面倒・めんどう・trouble/difficulty (or a pain in the ass)

病む・やむ・Godan verb: get ill

不幸・ふこう・unhappiness/sorrow/disaster

手紙・てがみ・letter

人物・じんぶつ・character/personality (in the context it was used like person)

効果・こうか・effect (ex: 効果はない・it does not work/take effect)

ゆえに・therefore

同姓同名・どうせいどうめい・having the same name (同姓同名の物- people with the same name)

得る・える・learn/acquire

遍・ぺん・number of times

秒・びょう・second

以内・いたい・within/inside of/less than

死因・しいん・cause of death

通り・とおり・street/way (used as その通りにたる・it will happen this way)

全て・すべて・all

心臓麻痺・しんそうまひ・heart attack

詳しい・くわしい・detailed/accurate

記載(する）・きさい（する）・description/record/entry/statement (if you add suru, you make these nouns a verb)

状況・じょうきょう・circumstances

与える・あたえる・Ichidan verb: assign/provide/give

This evening's study: annotating a Nutrition magazine with Japanese FF7 Rebirth Let's Play as background noise.

It's been a good weekend so far 😊

Mah boy Leo from Kekkai sensen

Tsurugi mah boy :)

Look at this money grabbing cutie pie 💴💴💴

This is amazing op!!

I made a theme song for my character.

reasons to hate Suguru Geto. 1: they call him "Gay Toe" in the English dub, not exactly a reason to hate him but I can not take that seriously. reason 2: Racist motherfucker, hates any human that isn't a sorcerer, calls them all monkeys. 3: why he dressing like that?? 4: that hair is wack. 5: stretched ears, they're gross. 6: he wore balloon pants as a teenager.

reasons to like Kenjaku. 1: body stealing genderfluid demon. 2: actually funny sometimes. 3: Isn't Suguru Geto. 4: put Mahito in a ball, 5: put Gojo in the cube. now for some putting Gojo in the cube is a bad thing, but to me it's good because Gojo is too pretty and too tall and annoying (I love him dearly)

drew this a while ago and think I forgot to post it, anyway Lance during Pride hehe

Japan Housing Websites (part one)

Want to move to Japan? Me too! Lately I’ve seen a lot of Instagram pages dedicated to showing off cheap homes in Japan. These pages usually just link back to a Japanese real estate website, so I’d like to list some handy vocabulary to help you navigate the sites and find some houses on your own!

Note: This post was made with intermediate level Japanese learners in mind. It's meant to be a vocabulary list with visual examples, not an all-inclusive house buying guide. For general website navigation, I’d recommend the RikaiChan / RikaiKun extensions which will display a translation of each word you mouse over.

What Websites?

I really like SUUMO, so that will be the site I use for the example pictures. But any website will have more or less the same words!

Navigating the Website

[ 1 ]　Creating an Account 会員（かいいん）登録（とうろく）：Member Registration

[ 2 ]　Search 探す（さがす）：Search / Find This word will come up a lot! The search function may also appear as... 検索（けんさく）：Search 物件（ぶっけん）検索：Property Search

Suumo has a nifty map on the front page. If you know the region you'd like to search in, you can choose it here.

[ 3 ]　Renting 借りる（かりる）：Rent (Borrow) 賃貸（ちんたい）：Lease / Rent

[ 4 ]　Purchasing 買う（かう）：Buy

[ 5 ]　House Terminology If you've taken a Japanese class, you may have learned that the Japanese word for house is 家 or いえ. Unfortunately, this short and simple word isn't used much on real estate websites. The following terms are typically used instead.

一戸建て（いっこだて）：Detached Building A standalone house, as opposed to an apartment or condo.

新築（しんちく）一戸建て：New Buildings

中古（ちゅうこ）一戸建て：Old Buildings 中古 can mean "old", "used", or “secondhand”, none of which sound ideal, but all it means is that the house that has been lived in previously. This is where you find the cheap ones!

Finding Houses

Once you have the region and building type selected, you’ll see a new map you can use to select the prefecture. I'll highlight a few key search methods on this screen.

[ 1 ]　Search by Area（エリア）

Click on a prefecture to bring up a checklist of cities and districts. At the bottom of the list, you'll see two options: refining the search further or proceeding with the checked options.

「チェックした市区郡の町名を絞り込む」 "Narrow by town names of checked cities/wards/districts"

市区郡（しくぐん）："City Ward District" 町名（ちょうめい）：Town Name 絞り込む（しぼりこむ）：Narrow / Refine

「この条件で検索する」 "Search with these conditions"

条件（じょうけん）：Condition / Term

The orange number shows how many total properties were found with the checked selections. Click the blue search button if you want to jump straight to the houses without refining the search.

[ 2 ]　Search by Railway（沿線）or Station（駅）

Click on a prefecture to bring up a checklist of railways. At the bottom of the list, you'll see two options: refining the search further or proceeding with the checked options.

「チェックした沿線の駅を絞り込む」 "Narrow by stations of checked railways"

沿線（えんせん）：Railway / Track 駅（えき）：Station 絞り込む（しぼりこむ）：Narrow / Refine

「この条件で検索する」 "Search with these conditions"

条件（じょうけん）：Condition / Term

Once again, the orange number shows how many total properties were found with the checked selections. Click the blue search button if you want to jump straight to the houses without refining the search.

[ 3 ]　Search by Map（地図、ちず） Clicking here will open up a much more detailed map that you can scroll through! Definitely the easiest option, which is why I put it last. :)

The End.

Hopefully you found some of these words useful.

I might do one more post related to houses, where I highlight vocabulary describing the houses themselves (instead of just how to search for them).

For now, here's the complete vocab list for ease of viewing:

会員（かいいん）登録（とうろく）：Member Registration 探す（さがす）：Search / Find 検索（けんさく）：Search 物件（ぶっけん）検索：Property Search 借りる（かりる）：Rent (Borrow) 賃貸（ちんたい）：Lease / Rent 買う（かう）：Buy 一戸建て（いっこだて）：Detached Building 新築（しんちく）一戸建て：New Buildings 中古（ちゅうこ）一戸建て：Old Buildings 市区郡（しくぐん）："City Ward District" 町名（ちょうめい）：Town Name 沿線（えんせん）：Railway / Track 駅（えき）：Station 絞り込む（しぼりこむ）：Narrow / Refine 条件（じょうけん）：Condition / Term