And, because it’s semi-permanently $20 off right now, I’m doing 50ish percent off of that lower price, and making it $49 instead of the regular $60. With that $11 you could buy a lot of Pocky. “I can’t remember ever pricing TextFugu this low,” says the used car salesman living inside of me.

As some of you may know, and as I’ll get into more detail in tomorrow’s State of The Fugu Address post, we’re working on a new version of TextFugu, which will cover a lot more material than the current version and span beginner through advanced and then get you working towards fluency. It’s a much bigger project so it will probably have a higher pricetag once it’s all said and done (for the Forever Price). That being said, anyone who has a Forever membership of current-gen TextFugu will be getting a free upgrade. In the past I limited it to certain groups, but now it’s going to be everyone until the new version is ready for signups.

TextFugu will be on sale for around a week. Last day of the sale will be on January 7, 2014, so you have some time to think about it / dig through the couch cushions for loose change. I hope you all had a wonderful New Year, and let’s be sure to learn a ton of Japanese (and other things too) in 2014!

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P.S. If you’re having trouble with registering your fancy new account please email hello@textfugu.com and I’ll help you out right away. Sometimes with extra server load the registration form doesn’t redirect properly, but I’ll be keeping an eye on things as much as I can in the meantime, support emails included!

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Wow, did I just finish writing this article? I think I did. I better keep writing otherwise you’ll feel like you didn’t look at enough words today.

Tofugu Tshirts Are-A-Coming!

If you’ve read this far, you must be the type of person who wears clothes. Well good for you (can’t say that about most Tofugu readers). A couple weeks ago we tried out a tshirt service called Teespring, which lets you upload a tshirt design and then has a Kickstarterish method of collecting money from people who want tshirts. There were a couple of things keeping us from doing tshirts in the past:

1. Usually you have to buy a ton of tshirts up front, guessing on what sizes people would want.
2. You have to ship them all out yourself (Ughh!)

This service solves both of those problems in that your money goes straight to them and then they ship it out for us to each individual. We did a test run to make sure the quality was up to snuff (if you ordered a tshirt, you should be getting yours soon, I just got mine!) and they look pretty good. So, I guess it’s time for us to finally do tshirts (thank you to the bajillions of people who have emailed me in the past asking about it, your dreams have come true).

We’ll be posting about the next round of tshirts very soon. Our main thing is that we want to make tshirts that we’d want to wear here at Tofugu, so the designs may not necessarily be a Tofugu fish right in the center of a tshirt (that would be okay… but only okay). We’re thinking we’ll do tshirts on a quarterly or bi-yearly basis, depending on how popular they are. Right now there are two designs we’re debating on. Tell us in the comments which you’d rather have to cover your naked body so we can make a decision.

The shirts will be American Apparel, available in both men’s shapes and women’s shapes. So, if you were to buy a tshirt, which would you buy? Please let us know so we may make educmacated decisions on what tshirt to begin selling.

Tshirt Comment Battle, GO!

This is just a quick Public Tofugu Service Announcement letting you know that yes, we care about you students, and that yes, you should be studying Japanese during your math class instead of actual math (just kidding, study your math or you may turn into a liberal arts major, eeaughhh!).

Anyways, TextFugu “Forever” is 50% off until September 25 whether you’re going to back to school or not. Of course, just like all Forever memberships, you get access to all future updates, changes, and special deals for other Japanese-related products (for example, you can get instant access to the WaniKani Closed Beta). TextFugu usually only goes on sale twice a year, so you know, do what you will with that information.

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If you have any questions about it, please feel free to email koichi@textfugu.com and I’ll help you out. If that’s all, then it’s probably best you stop looking at this flashing monstrosity of an image. Unicorn beseeches you!

And yes, sorry for the super short not-really-containing-anything post. Perhaps our Japanese resource reviews or Japanese guides section can keep you company until tomorrow?

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