forming; shaping; casting; molding; adult form
turning point; critical juncture; knot (in a tree, etc.)
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
picking up; gathering; type-picking; walking
candied (chestnuts); sweetened boiled fish
rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients
Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike
kabayaki; loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce
noisily (running around); with heavy feet; in a fluster; in a flurry; slapstick
full of troubles, difficulties
standalone book (i.e. not part of an anthology, series, etc.); (book published as a) single volume; tankōbon; individual volume of a manga series
to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home
comic; comics; comic opera; comic; comical
work; business; company; study
running about; making every effort (to do); busying oneself (with); being busily engaged (in); good offices; efforts
long night (esp. of autumn)
to tie up (roughly; esp. to prevent escape); to bind; to arrest
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
to scale (mountain, flight of stairs, etc.)
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
wood chips; wood offcuts; wood shavings; sawdust
many people; a large number of people
to judge; to try; to sit in judgement (on); to decide (on)
thoughtless; reckless; ordinary; usual; excessive; indiscriminate
sense of loss; feeling of loss
to wear away; to rub down; to abrade
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
reorganization; reorganisation; reshuffle