to flap (wings); to spread one's wings; to go out into the world
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
to choose the best; to select carefully; to handpick
solving a riddle; solving a mystery
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
accidental; incidental; occasional; casual
meaning; connotation; denotation
to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
Son of God; Jesus Christ; child of God; Christian; prodigy; young ace
conception; fertilization; fertilisation
shaking; trembling; pitching; disturbance; unrest; agitation
to boast; to brag; to exaggerate
to speak fluently; to be a good talker
location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place
reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for
Kyoto and vicinity (esp. during Edo period); Kyoto-Osaka region; Kansai region
to the utmost; to the best of one's ability
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
to hold in one's mouth; to bring with; to take along
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
simply put; putting it simply; in short
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
lost article; thing left behind; leaving something behind; forgetting something
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
unexpected; unlikely; terrible; awful; very; extremely
hostility; animosity; enmity
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
promo; advertising for a program (TV, radio, etc.); program publicity
commercial (TV or radio advertisement); commercial
Wonderland (fictional locale created by author Lewis Carroll)
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)
theme music; theme tune; theme song
owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)