15th day of the month; 15 days
sending (a manuscript, artwork, etc.) to the printer; receiving a manuscript (from the author)
flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)
departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition
saved data (in a game or app, etc.); saved game
silly (video) game; absurd game; ridiculous game
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
history; pedigree; lineage
leader; chief; head; (another person's) head
gunfight; firefight; gun battle; shoot-out
Shinto priest; chief priest (of a Shinto shrine); Welsh onion
miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness
ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite; congratulatory address
sound wave; acoustic wave
kagura; traditional Shinto music and dancing
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at); to be intimidated; to feel daunted
rosary; string of prayer beads
to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.
(religious) faith; belief; creed
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back
molding; moulding; shaping; forming; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
superalloy; Chogokin; line of die-cast metal robot and character toys sold by Popy
secret manoeuvres (maneuvers); operating behind the scenes
alms-giving; charity; offerings (usu. money) to a priest (for reading sutras, etc.); financially supporting one's favorite celebrity (by buying merchandise, attending events, etc.)
new building; new construction
manufacturing cost; production cost
number (of long, cylindrical things, movies, trains, home runs, etc.)
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
closing; closure; shutdown; lockout
(Internet) troll; disturber; raising havoc; laying waste; robbery; holdup
original picture; key frame; key animation
opportunism; double standards; timeserving; expediency
all the gods and goddesses; all the deities
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
anything and everything; just about everything
(reciprocal) communication; (coming to a) mutual understanding