discount price; special offer price
this year; this fiscal year; this school year
itemization (of expenses); the items; breakdown; classification
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
these days; nowadays; today; at this time (of day); at this hour
food, clothing and shelter; necessities of life
primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive
only; merely; just; at most; no more than
food distribution (esp. cooked rice)
external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)
magic; Magic Marker; felt-tip pen; magic number
dinner party; ceremonial dinner; dinner meeting (or lunch, breakfast)
degree of recognition; level of familiarity; visibility (product)
roughly; approximately; (cutting) in one stroke; (breaking apart) with vigour; (cutting) deeply; (splitting) wide open
last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month
with a click; with a clink; with a snap; firmly; tightly; compactly
shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
traditional Japanese musical instrument
yin-yang diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium
essence; true nature; substance; reality
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
nothing but; none other than
to stay long; to hang around; to hang out; to be immersed (in water) for a long time; to soak
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
to hum (a tune); to sing to oneself; to croon
open; public; official; overt
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
league; federation; union
love ban; relationship ban; talent agency rule forbidding its clients from getting involved in romantic relationships
catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)
to steal a kiss; to snatch a kiss
almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time
self-control; self-restraint
laptop (computer); notebook (computer)
to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)
difficult to approach; inaccessible
sugariness; saccharinity; carbohydrate; schizophrenia