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Question 1

最先端

Answer 1

さいせんたん cutting edge; state of the art, tip

Question 2

取り付かれる

Answer 2

to be obsessed, possessed

Question 3

ように

Answer 3

meaning just as, like

Question 4

ついに

Answer 4

finally; in the end; at last

Question 5

完成

Answer 5

かんせい complete

Question 6

一体

Answer 6

いったい what the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth before a ? word

Question 7

かく

Answer 7

in this way

Question 8

して

Answer 8

done

Question 9

ひそか

Answer 9

secret; private; surreptitious

Question 10

はつばい

Answer 10

sale; offering for sale; putting on sale; putting on the market; release (for sale)

Question 11

芸術性

Answer 11

げいじゅつせい artistry; artistic quality; artistic character

Question 12

評判

Answer 12

ひょうばん reputation; (public) estimation; popularity, rumor

Question 13

芳しい

Answer 13

かんばしい good (reputation, condition, results, etc.); favourable

Question 14

気落ち

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きおち discouraged; dispirited; despondent

Question 15

なさんな

Answer 15

なさるな・なさらないで

Question 16

こねまわす

Answer 16

to knead; to mix; to complicate; to turn into a mess

Question 17

思いつく

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to think of; to hit upon; to come into one’s mind; to be struck with an idea

Question 18

おかげ

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thanks to positive cause-consequence relation

Question 19

風変わり

Answer 19

ふうがわり strange; odd; unusual; eccentric; peculiar

Question 20

妖怪

Answer 20

ようかい yokai

Question 21

どうやら

Answer 21

possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; seemingly