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+<h1>august 2020: moving </h1>
+september 1, 2021<br>
+#diary <br>
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+<h3>summary </h3><br>
+August was all about the new house. So many appointments! At least the bulk of planned appointments ended this week. Once the final checklist for moving out of the old apartment is 100% complete (and that deadline is closing in), I'll be back on my time. Moving is exhausting. <br>
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+To entertain myself for the long stretches of time without internet access, I grabbed the first Japanese language visual novel I saw without sexual content. (I'm kind of a prude lol.) It's so risky to have a random VN as your only game for a whole month. I didn't even read the <a href="https://vndb.org/">VNDB's</a> synopsis, but I guess it wouldn't have tipped me off to how strange and uncomfortable 月華繚乱ROMANCE is anyway. Gekka Ryouran is basically a reverse harem game set in a prestigious school, full of incest vibes, Hunter Biden vibes, and lots of scary moments.  <br>
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+Honestly, the writing was so good, though, I enjoyed being stuck with it. The vocabulary level is higher than anything I've read so far, barring technical or political news reports. I'm getting to the point with Japanese that I don't need a dictionary for most manga, so needing a dictionary multiple times per sentence made me feel like a beginner again and eager to learn. (Though the contrast does highlight the ironically low vocabulary level of other series featuring honor students, bookworms, etc - I suppose they aren't as smart as they claim!) Also, the poetic and psychological atmosphere was engrossing, despite the constant dictionary flipping and moving-related interruptions. <br>
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+If you can read Japanese and don't mind obsession, thrilling moments, and constant weird vibes from almost every character, it's a quality otome. (I prefer more light-hearted VNs like Real Rode, though.) The best boy is the unromanceable Renge Kazuya. <br>
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+Last Updated September 2, 2021 <br>
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