New series: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, with six notes on the words the story is built from. Four of them follow a single kanji. 魔 (ma) — the character shared by Demon King, magic and magical power — is an abbreviation of 魔羅, a transcription of the Sanskrit māra, and once meant "that which kills." The Demon King of Japanese is the king of the sixth heaven of the realm of desire, a figure from Buddhist scripture first attested in a collection of tales from around 1120. And mahou, the word for magic, already appears in a dictionary of the Muromachi period — where a Christian text of 1592 uses it for the teachings of other faiths. The Japanese title carries a word the English one does not: sousou, the escorting of a body to the grave.

New series: the Monogatari Series, with six notes on what its titles are doing. Four of them can be cut two ways — bakemono/gatari as well as bake/monogatari — because bakemono, nisemono, tsukimono and kizumono are all dictionary headwords. Eight new entries in the basics, drawn from the Agency for Cultural Affairs' national survey: what Japanese speakers do when you do not speak Japanese, how they see English becoming the world's common language, and why a new word is tolerated before it is used. Fixed: sources now show their link, so you can go and check them yourself. Answers to your questions render their bold text properly. The cross-series view no longer dead-ends for readers without a subscription. Startup is faster.

Ten new entries in the basics, drawn from the Agency for Cultural Affairs' national survey on the Japanese language. They are about the places where Japanese speakers themselves disagree. Only 10.5% pick the meaning the dictionary calls original for one common word. Six per cent say a well-known idiom the way the dictionaries record it. And asked whether keigo is still needed, the firmest yes comes from teenagers, not from their grandparents. Also new: one note for Dr. Stone.

New notes: 14 for the series, 3 for the basics. Bleach, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chihayafuru, Detective Conan and Dr. Stone. Several of them come from glossaries the rights holders publish only on their Japanese sites — pages the translated editions never carried. The new basics: what 並 / 大 / 特 mean on a menu, the many ways Japanese says "and", and the two ways of saying "is not".

New: the monthly plan now starts with a free week for new subscribers. Fixed: the App Store page listed English only. The app has always been readable in English, Japanese, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and the listing now says so.