no!; no no!; no, not at all
one's impressions after reading a book
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
valuation; appraisal; evaluation; appreciation; recognition; acknowledgement
side; beside; feature of a sword blade
with a friendly grin; smilingly
somehow; somewhat; seemingly
in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
serious look (on one's face); straight face
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde (e.g. music)
writing; composition; essay; sentence
widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem
expressing oneself without words or gestures; force of personality
it's none of your business; it's not your concern
tankōbon; (manga) volume; (comic) trade paperback; single book (as opposed to magazine, anthology, etc.); separate volume
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
collection of short stories; collected short stories
whole work; all of the works
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
literary art; literary activity; writing
occupation; calling; livelihood
most recent work (e.g. book, film, etc.); latest work; latest offering
to accumulate one's unpublished paintings or writings
eight (long cylindrical things)
that is to say; so that means
four (long cylindrical things)
publishing rights; publication right; right to publish
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
company; corporation; workplace