firefight; gun battle; shoot-out
ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite; congratulatory address
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)
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; 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 thin objects (movies, TV programs, baseball games, etc.) (programmes)
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
mutual understanding; agreement of wills
research project (e.g. at school); independent research
cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
information; experience; knowledge; observation
beef tongue (a specialty of Sendai); ox tongue
swimming area (in the ocean); swimming beach; seawater baths
quickly; briefly; rashly; carelessly; (flowing) in trickles
remainder; remnant; not very; not much; too much; excessively
regularization; regularisation; getting up speed; proceeding at full tilt
person who just tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; mindless follower; (lit.) goldfish feces
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
to gain in skill; to improve; to get better
lower back (or hip) pain; lumbago