start; commencement; beginning; initiation
deep; profound; dense; thick; close (relationship); intense; strong
appearing together; co-acting; co-starring
south wind; southerly wind; (arch.) summer
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
that; the matter in question
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
mizuame; glucose syrup; starch syrup; corn syrup
ding (of a bell); bing; honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort; heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave
one after another; one after the other; in rotation; exchanging one after the other; changing repeatedly
way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression
already; now; no longer; not any more
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
to try and do something; to attempt to do something
soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
together; at the same time; same; identical
privilege; special favor; special favour; benefit; prerogative; perk
bonus footage (e.g. behind-the-scenes interviews)
one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; screentime
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood