after a long time; for the first time in a while
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
difficult to ...; hard to ...
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
difficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
mental; spiritual; emotional
relief; mitigation; alleviation; relaxation (of restrictions, tensions, etc.); easing; softening
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)
a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number
memory; sense; experience
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
to whine; to make feeble complaints
to polish up; to shine up
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
physique; physical standard; posture; sexual position
crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling
training range; training grounds; training area
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
joint (knee, elbow, etc.)
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
announcement; presentation; demonstration; displaying; showing; introducing
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
cool; stylish; good-looking; fashionable; sexy
to be evasive; to give an evasive answer; to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate; to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation; to make do with
jokingly; in the form of a joke
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement