So, I’m definitely very late in terms of getting Kanji2.0 up and running (thank you for all the e-mails, too!). I just wanted to make sure I put out a blog-post-update out there so that people could get new estimations on where it’s at.
Here’s the quick and skinny on it: Each kanji narrative is taking a lot longer than I thought to write (good thing and a bad thing, I think. The more time I can put in each one the better they’ll be when they’re finished! … but at the same time they take longer to write, and I know you’re all very patiently waiting!). The more I worked on Kanji2.0, the more ways I found to improve on stuff (which includes both simplifying things down to a prettier core as well as working on some new things too!). I definitely have a good layout now for things, and I should have a preview version of the first 6-7 chapters for members of TextFugu sometime later this week. At that point I’ll probably put the new content up in a separate drop-down so that you can still use “Legacy” Kanji 1.0 as well as the new one, depending on where you’re at. From there, I’ll just add new sections as I have them done, probably catching up to Kanji1.0 a week or two after the preview is up (I’m on a roll, now, I think, partly thanks to my new “office”).
I also wanted to thank everyone for the patience. You guys are all really awesome and patient! I really appreciate it, and it helps me to focus on what’s important (getting good content out to you all!). Thank you very much!
P.S. I just found an awesome t-shirt making company in Portland. That can only mean one thing… hmmm.

26. Jul, 2010 

I was having some trouble figuring out how to tie some loose ends and get the next chapters out there, but then I just decided to do it and tie up those loose ends later (i.e. sometime this week). I’ve gone ahead and started Season 4 (because it always feels so good to start a new season… so fresh and tasty), and decided it was time to re-start that wonky story you’re using on TextFugu to learn about conversation in Japanese. In that story, two new characters have been introduced. They have no idea they are in this story (someone should let them know, maybe), but I’m sure they won’t mind (and if they do mind, I’ll have to change their names to Baggie and Makuranman). I also thought this was a good way to introduce TextFugu readers to interesting blogs relating to Japan / Japanese, as well. Here’s a description, taken word for word from Season 4′s first lesson: “
