to paint (draw) a picture
process; course; mechanism
(skill of) making funny faces; facial performance
to take (a photo); to record (video, audio, etc.); to make (a film)
a long time (since the last time); first in a long time
practice, practice, practice; (only) practice makes perfect
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
hell on earth; living hell
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
fan; enthusiast; lover (of); fan (e.g. electric)
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
resuscitation; regeneration; reformation; rehabilitation; playback; regeneration (sound, etc.)
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)
book; volume; this; present; main; head
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
conviction; belief; confidence
pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed
exactly right!; indeed; damn straight
this for sure; certainly is
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
unwritten law; common law; unwritten rule
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
to serve; to work for; to attend
author; writer; novelist; artist
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
starting point; origin; origin (of coordinate axes); datum point