sale; sales; selling; marketing
unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional
poisonous; toxic; addictiveness
confections; sweets; candy; cake
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
you (plural); all of you; you all
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
consumption tax (incl. sales tax, VAT, excise duty, etc.)
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
February; second month of the lunar calendar
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
double take (esp. out of surprise)
(looking) over the top of one's glasses; (looking) through a pair of glasses
gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic; luxuriant (of vegetation)
original method; original procedure; genuine way (of doing something)
maid cafe; cafe with waitresses dressed in cute maid costumes
to come to realize; to become aware (of)
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
light; light (colour, food, comedy, etc.); right; right field; right fielder
to be reduced to (e.g. poverty); to end up as
the same generation; coeval
one or two; a few; small number
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
clear as day; plain as day; patently obvious; (lit.) clearer than watching a fire
lolicon; (sexual) attraction to prepubescent girls; someone attracted to very young girls; lolicon; someone attracted to young or young-looking female characters
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
maturing; ripening; aging; ageing; curing; fermenting