finished the first of 4 (including the sequel series, 8) .hack games in japanese. i understood nearly 100% of the dialogue, 95% of the in-game forum posts + emails, and 80-90% of the item names / descriptions. now that i'm playing it while actually understanding it all, it feels like there's not actually that much text / dialogue. for some reason it's not making me feel all that happy, i guess because i'm focused on the fact that there's still so much i don't know in general (newspapers etc) right now. the game has fake news articles btw.

i've just started the second game, some characters use more words i don't know and so far those chars are showing up more often. i can't really learn words from context from this game because there's too little context help, i'm just refreshing my memory on ones i already know (like 冒険 "adventure" which i forgot, but remembered after seeing a few times).

as for anime, i've been trying different ones but they all suck.... sadly the most promising ones are death note and a joke series about pigtail-girls