obsessively trend-conscious teenage girl
ta-dah!; ta-da!; tada!; voilà
stock holdings; one's shares
the world of music; the music world
hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; dicing; small cubes; roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)
turning into a cooler state; cooling down
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
take (e.g. in film-making)
to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude
do-or-die game; crucial contest
to run around; to bustle about
to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after
automatic lock; automatic door-locking system
sales promotion; hard selling
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
beating time with one's hands; clapping to the beat; making a careless move (in go, shogi, etc.); responding to an opponent's move without proper thought
love affair; love relationship
two classes; double; two sets
inner thigh; (walking) pigeon-toed; one's toes turned inward; uchimata (judo); throwing an opponent by putting one's leg between their legs
to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with
(raw) ore; unpolished gemstone
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
(not) merely; (not) simply
surging crowd; wave of humanity; stampede
getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again; starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one
to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err
all out; like hell; like crazy; desperately; (lit.) expecting to die
everywhere; all over; throughout
to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon
midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year