improvement (to a piece of writing or painting); revision; correction; touching up
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight
contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a blog, social media, etc.)
more and more; increasingly; extremely; very
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
Kōhei era (1058.8.29-1065.8.2)
Liao (dynasty, 916-1125 CE); Khitan Empire
stock company; corporation; kabushiki kaisha; KK
planning; project; plan; design
to live up to expectations; to meet expectations
novelizing; novelising; adapting a movie, game, etc. into a book
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
commerce; trade; business
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
to be taken ill; to be addicted to; to become absorbed in; to give oneself up (to)
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
opening to the public; making available to the public; putting on display; exhibiting; showing (play, movie, etc.); holding (interview, etc.)
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
(on the) net; (on the) Internet; (on the) Web
writing (e.g. as a profession)
upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person
to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop
Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to invade; to attack; to breach; to penetrate
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.); unavoidable; inevitable
heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; disappointed
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by