the number of people; many people; a large number of people; (counted as an) adult
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
bowstring; string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument; chord; hypotenuse
taking a breather; relaxation; vent hole
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
useless member of society; hopeless case; failure
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
print; printing; (printed) copy; handout; flyer
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
videogame software produced by hobbyists; fangame; doujin game
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
to be conspicuous; to stand out
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)
shit video game; embarrassingly bad video game
so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite
and then; and so; and; so then
to lose strength; to become weak; to wither; to droop; to feel demotivated; to lose interest
and; thereupon; because of that
(printed) instructions; manual; explanatory leaflet (pamphlet, note); description
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
choices; alternatives; options
to subsist; to keep on living
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
point (of a story, argument, etc.); point (e.g. in stock exchange movement); percentage point; switch; points; point; site
race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
(all) important positions; every strategic point; each key post; (all) important parts; every important point
junction; crossroads; division point; parting of ways
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
special; particular; peculiar; unique
money in one's possession
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various