monthly publication; monthly issue
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
serialization; serialisation; serial story
challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try
genuine article; real thing; real deal
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
tool; implement; means; furniture
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
as a child; when one was a child
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
older sister; elder sister
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
name; nameplate; caption; storyboard (of a manga); rough draft
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
script; screenplay; scenario
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
stage (theatre, theater); scene or setting (e.g. of novel, play, etc.)
no!; no no!; no, not at all
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
to make good use of one's spare moments; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
time; hour; period; class
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
of course; certainly; naturally
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
beginning; outset; first; onset
junior high school student; middle school pupil
senior high school student
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
how; in what way; by what means
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
way (of doing); manner; method; means
to get one's head around; to think about
amount of sugar; sugar content