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seagaia

1

very

1

helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

1

dusky; dim; shady

2

papaya (Carica papaya); pawpaw

4

Akiko

6

waste of effort; thankless task

1

fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce

5

stumbling; failure; misstep; setback

1

location scouting

4

media franchising; media mix (advertising strategy); mixed media

1

thigh; femoral

1

tie-up; collaboration; partnership; cooperation

1

tropical; tropical worsted fabric

1

monkey bars; horizontal ladder

2

negative ion

1

reading

1

new frame action

1

Miyazaki prefecture (Kyushu)

1

kiwi (Apteryx spp.); kiwi fruit (Actinidia deliciosa)

2

bending; warping; flexibility; pliability

1

lily

1

durian (fruit); Dorian (mode, column)

1

soap

1

Qingdao (China); Tsingtao; Chingtao

2

bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat

2

chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach

5

individual of taste

1

mango (Mangifera indica)

2

royalty (on book)

1

to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to make a mess of

1

to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

2

to love greatly; to love beyond all else

1

making (book, etc.) into film; making a screen version; adapting for the screen

1

death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without

3

botanical garden

2

yeah, yeah; whatever; yes; sure; hello; giddy-up

1

draft; rough copy

1

(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

1

true story

1

personification; anthropomorphization

1

originator; pioneer; inventor; progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line

1

native place; birth-place; one's old home; province; region; locality

1

to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words

1

dull; boring

1

world peace; peace of the world

1

Miyazaki (city, prefecture)

2

nationwide; countrywide; national; throughout the country

1

to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that

1

name; nameplate; caption; storyboard (of a manga); rough draft

3