I've been here for years

Character Card: Ghostly Pearl(「パールの幽光」  "Pearls Faint Glow") Skill: The Poet's Road(「作家の歩み」  "The Path Of The Author") Fully Awakened Skill: Shards Of Story(「物語の欠片」  "Fragments Of Story") Warding Card: June Romance(「６月に咲く浪漫」  "A Romance Story Blooms In June") (「浪漫」 means 'romance' in the sense of the literary genre of stories of adventure/chivalry/heroes/etc, as well as in the sense of romantic love, and can also refer to impossible dreams, grand undertakings, adventures, and (full length) novels, so I thoufht 'romance story' would be a good way to try and embcompass all of that.)

Cosmic Bonds! Since Shion is the only other pearl but he won't be getting a pearl card until next year I wonder if this is the june birthday cards? But surely if it was they'd have themed names? Probably something else, can't tell which cards etc etc

Various Adornments (「それぞれの着飾り」 "Respective Dressings Up")

Now I'll yap and you can look at the stats!

Gacha is gambling! Banners rerun! If Zenji has a shot at becoming a posthumously famous author then you have a chance of pulling a card the second time it comes afound--save up your diamonds and don't spend any money you'll regret spending! It's uncomfortable to hold back and miss out, but it's only uncomfortable, not painful--you can do it! If you struggle with gambling addiction--including with spending on gacha games--remember thag there's no shame in getting help. You can change. You can quit!

Japanese has nuances and small children know more Japanese than I do, grain of salt, etc etc

As long as you can create, create! If you have an idea or a story to tell or an image in your mind, it doesn't matter if it's bad or incomplete or difficult to understand or if it isn't well recieved or it isn't exactly how you want it to be when you get it out or you don't think it's original--if you make it yourself with your own power, if you express it, that's better than keeping it in your head to never see the light of day. You can only improve by creating more and more! Your ideas can only be out there if you put them out there!! If not now, when? There are people out there doing it worse than you and getting better recieved--and there is art and passion and thoughts and images and words within you that only you can do your way!

Character Card: Void Cleaver (「無明を断つ刃」 "Avidyā Cleaving Blade" ('Avidyā' is the buddhist concept of ignorance or misconceptions of metaphysical reality. I considered trying to translate it to something like 'Spirit-Blindness' but that doesn't really cover its meaning so. . . .)) Skill: Centerline Slash (「胴斬り」 "Deadly Torso Slash" ("horizontal cut across the torso (sword technique)" the characters used mean "torso" and "kill" so I went with that) Fully Awakened Skill: Swallow Counter (「燕返し」 "Quickly Reversed Cut" ('swallow counter' is the name of a judo throw written/pronounced the same way.)) Warding Card: Ordinary Exchange (「何気ないやり取り」 "Casual Exchange")

"swallow counter". . .yeah i'm sure ypu'll be keeping one of those--

Character Card: Frostbitten Blade (「雪夜に佇む刃」 "Blade Sat Still In The Snowy Night") Skill: Swordplay (「立廻り」 "Fighting Performance" ("tachimawari" is the kabuki term for stylized movements performed for fighting scenes in kabuki theater.)) Fully Awakened Skill: Graceful Slash (「美しき斬閃」 "Beautiful Beheading Flash" (flash as in 'sudden and quick movement')) Warding Card: Hiding Excitement (「高鳴りを秘めて」 "Hiding His Rapid Heartbeat")

SAYING BYE TO SABURO AND LEAVING HODGE AND PODGE TO BABYSIT HIM WHILE HE"S ON THE MISSION. . .DON'T WORRY ZENJI YOU'LL BE GONE LIKE FIVE HOURS REAL TIME. . . . Also, Hodge and Podge are allowed to touch Saburo!!! Do you know how few people are allowed to do that!!!!

Character Card: Snowdrift Sword (「風花を抱く刃」 "Snow Flurry Holding Blade") Skill: Quickdraw (「抜刀術」 "The Art Of Sword Drawing") Fully Awakened Skill: Blunt-Edge Blow (「峰打ちなのだよ」 "Of Course He'd Strike With The Back Of The Sword") Warding Card: Be Good, You Hear? (「良い子にしてるのだよ」 "Be Good In The Meantime")

cosmic bonds!

The Flashing Blades Of Hotarubi (「ホタルビの閃光」  "The Flash Of Hotarubi" (this is arguably a bit of a pun since 'hotarubi' means 'glow of a firefly'))

Sprites for this episode! (obvs scroll past to avoid possible spoilers)

Subaru, Haku, and Zenji Taisho

nuppeppo (a yokai whose body is just a blobby head with limbs)

backgirl

katsuyoshi

hidemasa

hidemasa_amanojaku (amanojaku are a kind of malicious yokai)

jochu (maidservant)

joreishi (exorcism)

Next episode is "S2 E5: Waves Of Love Act I" (「Ｗａｖｅｓ　ｏｆ Ｌｏｖｅ(前編)」 "Waves Of Love (Part One)")!? They stopped making the preview images available before it's time--but assuming it's anything like last season's and assuming they'll have a different cast. . .I probably couldn't tell you anything with just the preview image anyway lol DIONYSIA MEMBERS IN WAVES OF LOVE PERHAPS??? also ANOTHER TWO PARTER!!! Since last time we only had those near the end of the season maybe we'll be going towards the Gala again? We are skipping like two months from last episode. . . .

Uuuh that's all I've got for you besides the stats tho! And my yapping!

Gacha is gambling! Banners rerun! Consider the actual value to you--both in terms of the gameplay and the temporary "ownership"--of having the cards. Are you actually going to boost their stats with your limited resources? Are you going to pay diamonds to use the icon for the unit? Are you going to try and use the outfit on the home screen(I haven't written a guide for this yet but if you have an android and you can access your game files there's a workaround for this that doesn't require owning the card)? Do you get anything out of successfully pulling the unit that you wouldn't get from saving the PNG? With those answers in mind, consider the actual worthiness of pulling for the unit, especially if you'll have to pay for diamonds to do so! If you do choose to gamble, gamble responsibly. Set limits for yourself and stick to them!

Yada yada a preschooler could do better at Japanese than I could. Also there were like specific jargon terms in this one so it ended up taking longer than I expected despite that I pre-wrote everything I could!!

It's fine to ask for help, but it's important to try and help yourself first. That doesn't just mean following the instructions you've been given but looking for available information and double checking it with the information that you have before giving up and asking. Obviously sometimes you'll miss things and that's fine too. We all have bad days--including the people you may need to ask for help.

Anyway stats and I'll see you in like 20 hours!