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The 2024-2025 Holiday Sale is live!
Hey all!
I've got exciting news for those of you who have been waiting for this!
Our annual holiday lifetime sale has begun on both MaruMori and Kitsun. This means that you can get lifetime accounts on both platforms individually for a great price, and that you can get them both bundled together for an even better price!
Be sure to look at https://marumori.io/billing if you are interested in getting MM or the bundle.
If you wish to get just Kitsun, check out https://kitsun.io/payment for that.
Last year when making this same announcement, we announced that we'd be rolling out N3 grammar from January onwards. As I make this announcement, I'm pleased to say that we're well on track to finishing N3 at the end of March! This means we'll most likely be starting N2 in April! A pretty good pace I'd say! Big thanks to our content team for always slaving away at bringing you the best grammar content available!
For all other upcoming content, features, and release schedules you can of course check the renewed roadmap for 2025 and beyond! 2025 will be awesome for MaruMori, and hopefully, that means it will be awesome for you too!
Hope you all have a great holiday!
Our new Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond is live!
Are you curious about what's coming to MaruMori and when? Worry not—our new roadmap is now live!
You can check out the full roadmap by clicking here, but here are a few of the main points:
N3 will be completed in Q1 2025, meaning we'll start Q2 with our new N2 region and content! This means our release schedule will also increase soon! Starting January we'll be releasing a new batch of N3 content every 10 days.
Q1 will bring a lot of different mini games and study tools to help you nail down some of the more difficult parts of learning Japanese (counters, intransitive vs transitive, etc). But next to this, it will also bring some cool new features, like sharing study lists and having a community study list section!
Q2 will focus not only on new tools (like a MPV (video player) mining plugin, and a reading assistance tool for novels/text), but also on completely reworking some of our existing features like the reading exercises.
The mobile apps will continue to be worked on while in early access, we're aiming to get all bells and whistles in there in the coming two quarters, and release it "for real" somewhere in Q2!
In Q3 and Beyond, we will of course keep our schedule filled with releasing N2, as well as N1 content later on, put out Graded Readers, release a browser mining extension (a la Yomichan et al., but with a way to directly add items to your MM Study Lists). And much more! (But more on that later!)
Aside from the features and tools listed, we'll of course also keep improving MaruMori with smaller features and bugfixes as we go. The same goes for content! We'll keep adding content and making adjustments and changes where needed.
Speaking of N2.. Our talented artist is working on the region's artwork, and so far it's looking fantastic! Here's a small sneak preview of a small part of the region!
We're super excited to disclose our plans for the coming year(s), and we hope you're just as enthusiastic about them as we are! 2025 is looking to become another great year for MaruMori!
P.S. Our Annual Holiday Sale is starting in the next few days, keep an eye out for that!
November 2024 Community Profile Share Roundup!
Hi everyone! It's time for the monthly progress roundup again!
For those who don't know: Over on our Discord, we have a "share your profile" event on the 1st of every month. Sharing your profile banner is a great way to track your progress and show off your beautiful custom profile share images and statistics.
So if you also want to be featured next month, be sure to join our discord and post in the corresponding channel on the first of January 
Let's show off those pretty profile images!
New Mobile Apps Update - v1.0.4 - Conjugation trainer, dictionary improvements and more!
A brand new update for the mobile apps just dropped, bringing not just the conjugation training tool, but also SRS details and item management for the dictionary pages. Of course, it also brings some bugfixes and smaller improvements:
New Features:
- Conjugation Trainer - The conjugation trainer has been implemented! You can now start a conjugation session from the "more" tab, or start one from the corresponding Adventure tiles.
- Conjugation Trainer - To make it even easier to start a session, we've added presets for common conjugation combinations. Just tap the preset, and it will change all the settings for you automatically.
- Conjugation Trainer - Of course, we've also implemented the training results screen, so you can immediately view what you did (or did not) wrong.
- Dictionary - Search Results - Now shows markers for your SRS level, known and suspended state on each item.
- Dictionary - Details Page - Same as above
- Dictionary - You can now suspend/unsuspend and mark as known/unknown items from these pages.
Dictionary - You can now add items to study lists straight from the search results page.
Bugfixes:
- Grammar SRS - Fixed an issue with blank screens for certain grammar points & sentences.
- Vocabulary & Kanji SRS - Fixed an issue with blank screens.
- SRS - Fixed an issue where text answers input through keyboard autosuggestions would get marked as incorrect due to a trailing space.
- Android - Discord Login - The authentication modal should now close and let you log in properly.
- SRS - Kanji - Used In tab content now has the correct colors in dark mode.
In the coming months, we'll be bringing the mobile app up to par with the website in terms of features, this release is step one in that direction, but you can expect a lot of stuff coming soon!
Speaking of stuff coming soon, we'll be releasing a new roadmap (for both website and mobile apps) very soon, so keep an eye out for that!
First N3 Mock Exam Released!
The (short) wait is over! We are happy to announce the arrival of the very first MaruMori N3 mock exam!
It may be just one for now, but rest assured, it’s a high-quality practice exam, and there are more in the works. We plan to release two more (to start with) in the not-too-distant future, so keep your eyes peeled for more N3 goodness!
For now, we wanted to make sure that those of you going for the N3 had at least something to practice with on the Maru side of the internet, and we really hope you enjoy doing this mock exam (as much as it is possible to enjoy doing a practice test, haha!).
JLPTを受ける皆さん、頑張ってください！全力を出しきれますように！
From the MaruMori team
P.S. Passing this exam will also give you a new title, achievement, badge, and certificate image for your profile