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Looks like you have all the answers here : ). I hope that once you finish the game, you'll come back and post your thoughts. G-Senjou is a great VN -- one of my favorites -- and I always enjoy hearing about peoples' experiences with it. Just make sure to use spoiler tags if applicable : )

The disparity with anki and your study had to do with the fact that there are multiple printings of the sixth and fifth editions of RTK, and your deck must be based on a different printing. You'll have 10-20 of such disparities, but it all sorts itself out pretty fast. Don't be discouraged! Remember, you're doing it right: keep your priorities, scale back new kanji if you have to, but don't stop. Great job, keep it up!

Words per minute (WPM): 93 Keystrokes: 502 Correct words: 91 Wrong words: 6

Indeed, Joe was a farmer, and as he tended to his crops one day, he lamented that he hadn't the time to go to Tosche station to pick up some power converters.

And that, children, is the true story of how Santa's reindeers learned how to fly. We now begin a new tale...

Captain Planet.

The monstrosity spoke up, "Would any of you care to support our local chapter of the Boy Scouts?"

While doing so, our hero's sister turned to him and asked, "Whatcha gonna do today, big bro?"

The smell of bacon and eggs soon filled their small house.

They were eaten and died a permadeath, never to come back ever again.

Hi Davio, please repost according to the "Please Read Before Posting" post. Once you've done that, we'll be happy to help you.

Indeed, as fate would have it, our hero and the dragon shared a name.

So, after such laughs and giggles, our hero decided it was time for lunch.

When our hero protested, Gangamamer flew high into the air, then dove at the hero -- raking his armor with this terrible claws, and biting off the lower half of his left arm.

Here's the kanji for rising sun: 旭 We've already learned the two sub-elements: nine and sun. Therefore, stories can be something like, "I see the rising sun every morning at nine when it rises." "Nine friends and I watched the rising sun come up today." or utilize the nine-baseball connection to imagine the sun rising above the baseball (nine!) field. Is this how you're doing it? On the whole, I suggest you look at the kanji koohi website. They have stories you can use if you're having a lot of difficulty.

Yeah, I've found this twice before on other communities, and it was either because the user's antivirus was either putting reallive.exe into quarantine, or the user was (unintentionally) trying to open the ".exe" as a ".zip". One way to work around the second issue is sometimes to make a shortcut to the program on the desktop. Looking forward to hearing redownloading works...!

Journeying thence for the space of about two hours, the hero happened upon an old woman, who called, "Good sir, have you a minute?"

To put it plainly, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

As fate would have it, Batman's role in this tale was not yet over; but we will get to that part soon enough.

Was feeling a little lonely around the forums lately (tho I'm not one to talk -- I have pre-finals and finals right now), so I thought I'd start a line-by-line story writing thread. Everybody can join in: each person posts a sentence at a time, and over many, many moons, we'll write the next great novel. If you want to comment as we go along, feel free! But please do so in spoiler tags so that a person reading through the topic on-the-fly will only see the story itself. ===================== Once upon a time, in the land of Fuwanovel, a hero was born.

I just had someone PM me still confused about this topic. Here's the short version: Fuwanovel's version of Fate/Stay Night DOES contain H-scenesIt also contains the VOICES from the Realta Nua version, but unlike Realta Nua, no H-content was taken outLotusGG is playing FSN on the VNDS app. If he used the Fuwanovel install of Fate/Stay Night for the conversion, then H-scenes will still be present in his VNDS version Now, for your info:Some people HAVE managed to convert an edited (no H-content) versin of FSN to VNDS, but success has been mixed. I (Tay) will be posting about this at some point on the VisualNovelAer blog once I've figured out. That, however, is just for your information, and was not what this post was about. Thanks for the great work, Down.

Congrats on your first day! Feeling encouraged by your first study is really important for morale reasons, and in my experience, as you keep it up and maintain your studies, these study sessions help boost your own learning confidence. Looking forward to more posts! Regarding your response to my initial post: The Floor is Lava - This is an internet meme, and I'll be posting a little about it on my blog in the next few days. In short, it goes back to what Down said: there's a lot of danger when you drop your routines, even a little. Quite frankly: there are good study days when morale is high, and there are bad study days when every review feels taxing. The only way I get through it is keeping my routine, and reminding myself that in a few months, it'll all be over and I'll be SO much closer to learning Japanese. But, no matter WHAT, I don't let myself stop. If I stop, it takes SO much effort to start again. Health Risks - I'm glad you're being smart : ). That post came after me working with several elderly patients who didn't take care of themselves during those critical years, and whose lives were ruined in the long run. It was on my mind and slipped out. Now, most important: Imaginative Memorizing - So, as you read in Heisig's introduction, one of the WORST ways to memorize the kanji is to memorize them "dry" (AKA: look at kanji, write it 100 times, memorize the whole thing). The RTK method of memorizing is to instead memorize certain kanji, and then use them in a story/phrase to remember how to construct larger kanji. You don't need to be creative to come up with little associations -- and, in fact, "stories" that are too long are actually HARDER to remember! By the time I hit 1000 kanji the first time, I'd mostly abandoned stories for mental pictures and quick associations. Don't be dogmatic in creating stories -- do your best, following his suggestion, and Anki will tell you (via how well you remember them over several days) whether or not your "stories" are working. That, ultimately, is my useful tidbit here: ANKI is very powerful when you use it right. Not only is it a flashcard program, but the SRS technology helps you see which kanji you struggle with. For the kanji that I don't memorize straight-off, I often have to come up with several different stories until one sticks and I stop missing it. Glad to have you! Looking forward to more posts!

Congrats on starting this epic quest! I've got a lot of suggestions for you, but if you're going to post every day, I'll try and spread them out : ). Here's a few to start with: Routine is really is important. There are some stellar examples on the forums of what a constant routine and perseverance can do. I'm still doing really well, but all my "rough patches" occurred when I got lax about my routines.When life gets super busy, DO NOT STOP. Scale back to 10 new kanji a day. Or 5. But do not stop! If you stop, you die.The floor is lavaReviews build up really fast in Anki if you take days off. Get them done early in the day, so you can forget about them. As Rin from Fate/Stay Night would say: You don't need any extra flab on the brain.Timeboxing is important! More on this later. Last thing: the purpose of this blog is for community recruitment, or making yourself accountable to the community for your successes and failures. We'll cheer you on, but only you can prevent forest fires do the actual studying! Looking forward to your posts! PS: These last thoughts are coming from me as a future doctor ; ). I've been taking 4 years of physiology/biochemistry/anatomy/histology type stuff in preparation for Medical School, and so the following suggestions come with love (but are just that: suggestions) and not preachy-ness --- Smoking is bad. Quit. ASAP. Drinking too much in college can cripple your liver and several parts of your brain! If you're under 25, you should try and drink as little alcohol as possible. Exercise. Study hard. Get your brain exercising by studying the Kanji! PPS: Really excited to have you with us! PPPS: I don't see a problem with posting every day, so long as it doesn't become a burden on you, and make it less likely for you to do the daily studies. (meaning: follow your heart)