living thing; organism; creature; biology
trip; excursion; (drug) trip; entering another world (in fantasy fiction); tripcode (hash code of a password, used for signing posts anonymously on imageboards)
advanced student; advanced learner; advanced practitioner; experienced person
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition
moving forward (e.g. of a vehicle); onward movement; progress (of work, activities, etc.); advance; progression (of a disease, global warming, etc.); progression (e.g. chord progression)
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
record of proceedings; minutes
complementation; supplementation; completion
notebook; copy-book; note; noting down; (musical) note; laptop (computer)
to push away; to push aside; to shove
to hear; to be told; to know; to receive (order); to undertake; to comply
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
to begin to write; to start writing; to write out (e.g. on a blackboard); to extract (and write down); to write down (the important parts); to export
good (quality, condition, etc.); Good (grade); B
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)
Japan Self-Defense Forces; JSDF; self-defence force; self-defense force
novel; story; (work of) fiction
(non-documentary) television series; teledrama; television drama; television play; video drama
spring day; spring sun; spring sunlight
divine spirit; spirit of the dead
honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion
light novel; young-adult fiction novel, typically illustrated in a manga art style
Nishimura Mitsuru (1962-)
drawing pictures; painting pictures; taking photographs
turning (a comic, novel, etc.) into a serialized TV-show; dramatization
to serve; to work for; to attend
commerce; trade; business
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; perspective; angle
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear); fearfully; anxiously
eloquence; volubility; (lit.) (like) water on a standing board
smoothly; easily; readily
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen); embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on