By mikankun, on August 29th, 2010
Well today marks that day I finally finished “Remembering the Kanji”. Frame 2042 was finished earlier this morning and as I finished I felt really surprised at the fact that I actually finished it. I still remember the day I picked it up and thought to myself “I’ll probably only get to 300″ but in the end I made it all the way to 2042. I wasn’t without help though because without the community over at RevTK and the large amount of stories I doubt I would have ever finished. Now all I have to do is worry about is keeping up with the daily SRS reps which should be no problem at all. I’ve already been grabbing lots sentence decks for Anki to get daily practice with and soon I’ll start building my own custom deck. I’m also glad I’ll be able to finally shelf RTK since it looks likes it’s been to the depths of hell and back.
On another note lately I seem to be obsessed with AKB48. I just can’t stop listening to ヘビーローテーション. I find myself watching the video over and over.
I’ve been watching tons of AKBINGO! even old episodes that I’ve seen many times before. It just seems weird especially since I was never into AKB48 that much but lately I just can’t get enough of them.
By mikankun, on August 14th, 2010
Well I’m still slowly getting through “Remembering the Kanji” and since my last restart I’m still at ~700. So being more than 1/4 through the book I’m still finding it hard to go through sometimes. It is fun however when I arrive at a kanji that I already know since I can quickly commit a story to memory. For example if I wasn’t already familiar with the kanji ‘曜’ I think remembering it would have been a bit difficult.
The way I review is using the standard Heisig deck from Anki and go from keyword to kanji. Until today I’ve been struggling remembering some of the stories since I used just the keyword. For me I thought I was perparing myself better by just using using memory for the story. Today I decided to actually take Khatzumoto’s advice and place the story on the cards since the focus should be remembering to write the kanji instead of the stories. It’s only been one day but my reviews today felt better for the most part.
Hopefully this time I can actually finish the book. I do hope to finish because writing the kanji is a big issue for me. I can read and recognize far more than I can actually write so finishing RTK will be a big milestone for me.
By mikankun, on July 24th, 2010
So after anticipating it for months I’ve finally seen Black Rock Shooter. The OVA was based on a Hatsune Miku of the same name about a girl who is going through pain and sadness and looking forward to a happier future. The anime switches back and forth between the real world and an alternate world where fighting is taking place. In the there is a lot of stuff that doesn’t get explained to the viewer so you’re left wondering about the different possibilities. Some people seem to be disappointed by it but I honestly enjoyed it quite a bit.
