somersault; returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; abrupt change of direction
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
matter for congratulation (wedding, pregnancy, birth, etc.); happy event
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
to have a talk; to tell a story
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
publicity; advertisement; advertising; propaganda
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
monthly publication; monthly issue
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
serialization; serialisation; serial story
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
to pass (of time); to elapse
naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
planning; project; plan; design
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
soft and fluffy (e.g. hair)
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly
(editorial) supervision; general editorship; supervising director
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); condensation (of a vapour or gas)
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
spirit; soul; drive; vigor; vigour
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
original story; original version; this volume
turning a film, novel, etc. into a manga
to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out
name; nameplate; caption; storyboard (of a manga); rough draft
to begin; to set about; to start
holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus); false holly; holly; spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
turning a comic, novel, etc. into an animated movie or TV series; making an animated version