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feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy

3

Comic Market (semiannual self-published comic book convention); comiket; comic book market; comicbook market

2

antiquity; ancient times; bygone days; former times

3

after; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post

1

questionnaire; survey; poll

1

(feeling of) identification; sense of unity

1

exaltation; emotional uplift

2

ephemeral; transitory

1

pause; suspension; rest; stoppage

3

aid; help; assistance; assistant; counselor; counsellor

2

to provide momentum; to give a boost to; to encourage; to spur; to stimulate

1

stabbing; piercing

1

arching one's body backwards (like a shrimp); holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backwards like a shrimp (to represent being overwhelmed by someone's power)

1

direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation

3

combination

1

massage (esp. anma, a traditional form of Japanese massage); masseur; masseuse; (arch.) blind person

1

to deceive (with words); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle

3

(please) look; see; (please) try to do

1

good idea; good plan

1

extremely fast; in a flash; too quick for the eye to catch

2

clearly (standing out); distinctly; sharply; boldly; in sharp relief

2

spinning rapidly; turning quickly; fast-forward (VCR, etc.); scanning

1

unaltered; unedited; unamended; uncensored; unexpurgated

1

wounded; injured

1

improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore

4

to pin one's hope on; to look forward to; to look toward; to get one's hopes up

1

to flash (e.g. lightning); to flicker; to flutter (e.g. flag); to wave; to flash into one's mind (e.g. an idea); to come to one suddenly

1

narration

1

speech; address; curtain speech; prologue; way of speaking; manner of speech

2

by all means; at all costs; absolutely

2

imitative sound (in film, theatre, etc.); sound effect

2

as if nothing had happened

1

waiting; waiting time; wait tile; tile which would complete one's hand

4

to be pretentious; to put on airs; to show off

1

to overwork

2

incessant working; working non-stop

1

justice

1

blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end

1

font

2

changing completely; transformation

1

theme song

6

to be intimate with; to befriend

1

song; singing

2

certain reasons; certain circumstances; professional constraints; (lit.) adult matters

1

going straight to the point; cutting it short; as it turns out

1

interval; step; pitch; key

1

sense of rhythm; rhythmical sense

1

vibrato

2

voice training

1

all sorts of things; (anything and) everything; by all means; at any cost

2