So Undertale’s Japanese version was just released and I’ve been playing through it and making notes of new words. Here’s a list of a few I think would be useful to anyone else thinking of doing the same:

Nouns

• 決意 - けつい - determination
• 人間 - にんげん - human
• 確定 - かくてい - decision (confirm button in menus)
• 消除 - しょうじょ - deletion (delete button in menus)
• 地底 - ちてい - underground
• 遺跡 - いせき - ruins
• 遭遇 - そうぐう - encounter
• 看板 - かんばん - sign(board)
• 行動 - こうどう - action, behaviour (act button in battle)
• 攻撃 - こうげき - attack
• 獲得 - かくとく - obtaining
• 満タン - まんたん - filling a tank (HP)
• 回復 - かいふく - restoring (HP)
• 仲良し - なかよし - close friend
• 冗談 - じょうだん - joke
• ダジャレ - bad pun
• カタツムリ - snail
• おやつ - snack

Verbs

• 戦う　- たたかう - to fight
• 見逃す - みのがす - to miss, overlook, ignore (mercy button in battle)
• 逃がす - にがす - to set free, let go (spare button in battle)
• 定める - さだめる - to decide, set
• 仕掛ける - しかける - to set (a trap)
• 塞ぐ - ふさぐ - to block
• 担う - になう - to bear, carry on shoulder
• 撫でる - なでる - to stroke, pet
• みなぎる - to be filled with
• どく - to step aside, move out of the way
• どかす - to move out of the way (transitive of どく)
• ふざける - to joke, mess around

Adjectives and Adverbs

• 愚か - おろか - foolish, stupid
• 恋しい - こいしい - longed for, missed
• かしら - I wonder (mainly female sentence ending)
• どうやら - it seems like

I hope this fills you with determination to keep studying and have fun practicing Japanese!

If there’s any mistakes or things you’d like me to add please let me know.

worm in his natural habitat

imma keep it real with you chief. sometimes university workloads are just fucking unreasonable and unfeasible unless you’re not mentally ill or you’re someone who’s able to be On™ and productive 24/7 (which is like.. no one??) and no amount of “you need to learn time management skills because this is what it’s like in the real world” is gonna change that