This week I kept on reading わたしの幸せな結婚, reaching about 70% and finishing the third of five chapters. I’m still enjoying it quite a lot. The story is developing in nice ways and the writing style is still really enjoyable. I’ve come across a decent number of katakana words at this point but it still seems like the tendency is to stick with native words wherever possible — I’m also noticing that it uses patterns like このような rather than こんな. Just interesting to see how the style helps to evoke the old-fashioned setting.

I put ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 on hold since my sister started watching 進撃の巨人 and I’ve been planning to rewatch it for some time now. I watched 27 episodes (about 10 hours), almost finishing up the second season. There were a definitely some points where I got lost in a tangle of sino words but fortunately I have a good amount of the manga piled up so I was able to cross-reference some stuff that gave me trouble. I honestly forgot just how much I enjoyed this show when watching it originally and it’s really fun to revisit it.

I wasn’t planning to read any manga this week but I noticed this morning that とつくにの少女 had put out a new volume without me noticing (and finished the series too!) so I grabbed that and quickly read through it. The previous volume left me kind of confused and unsatisfied, but this one cleared up some unanswered questions and also brought the story to a very sweet conclusion.