rewatching baccano, in japanese this time. the english dub translation is like 98% accurate and way more engaging (mostly-accurate dialects etc) than the japanese, so watching the original actually feels worse in most ways except for that some of the english voices were really annoying. the japanese is more like "all of the voices are normal". i still love claire so that's good.

i heard FLCL is getting two new seasons. is japan going the same way as america now? can't think up new shows so they're reviving old shows? in general i'm not complaining, i want bigger fandoms and i like sharing nostalgia for old series, but the revivals are always so awful...

i'm getting really tired of not being able to understand "everything" in japanese. i can understand a whole lot, but there's still way too many words i don't know, and i just want to hurry up and have NORMAL conversations with people, get all the jokes people are showing on twitter etc. not conversations where i feel like i have to double-check everything in the dictionary before sending it, or hold back in participating because i don't know what they're saying for sure.