GolyBidoof’s Summer Solstice 2025 Readathon tally-up!
Total time read: １０時１２分
Total pages read: ９９７ページ
Previous posts:
Goals
First study session
First study session summary
Second study session
Second study session summary
Third study session
End of the marathon
All things read over the course of the marathon:
コミック百合姫２０２５年２月号
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名前 | 時間 | ページ |
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今日はカノジョがいないから第２９話 | 10:31 | 007-045 |
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夢と恋ではつり合わない第３話 | 24:08 | 045-083 |
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サボりなら保健室でどうぞ？第９話 | 12:01 | 083-113 |
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ぜんぶ壊して地獄で愛して第１８話 | 12:37 | 113-143 |
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私の推しは悪役令嬢第４８話 | 23:21 | 143-177 |
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無力聖女と無能王女。。。第７話 | 24:59 | 177-213 |
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現実世界でも幸せにしてくださいね？第７話 | 29:22 | 213-241 |
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私に天使が舞い降りた！第１２８話 | 17:00 | 241-261 |
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大室家第１１７話 | 5:06 | 261-269 |
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ゆるゆり第２１７話 | 8:20 | 269-283 |
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小春と湊 | 17:53 | 283-299 |
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踊り場にスカートが鳴る第２７話 | 6:53 | 299-323 |
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カナリアは綺羅星の夢をみる第七織 | 22:30 | 323-357 |
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平良深姉妹はどっちもヤんでる第１９話 | 18:31 | 357-385 |
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崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい第９話 | 17:26 | 385-411 |
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嫌われ魔女令嬢と男装皇子の婚約第１７話 | 20:06 | 411-439 |
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伽藍の姫第１５話 | 13:31 | 439-465 |
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アンドロイドは経験人数に入りますか？？第２７話 | 23:34 | 465-497 |
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はなれないよ | 28:00 | 497-558 |
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レント | 10:12 | 558-562 |
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ドイツのBL女子が百合に出会って。。。第２６回 | 9:29 | 562-564 |
コミック百合姫２０２５年７月号
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名前 | 時間 | ページ |
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春の光に吞まれても第１話 | 15:32 | 005-037 |
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今日はカノジョがいないから第３１話 | 6:24 | 037-053 |
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私の推しは悪役令嬢第５２話 | 25:05 | 053-079 |
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現実世界でも幸せにしてくださいね？第１１話 | 35:06 | 079-117 |
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大室家第１２２話 | 4:38 | 117-126 |
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ゆるゆり第２２２話 | 5:03 | 126-137 |
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無力聖女と無能王女。。。第１０話 | 32:08 | 137-177 |
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超深宇宙より愛をこめて第４話 | 18:21 | 177-197 |
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キミが吠えるための歌を第９話 | 17:22 | 197-233 |
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夢と恋ではつり合わない第７話 | 19:48 | 233-263 |
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カナリアは綺羅星の夢をみる第十織 | 21:54 | 263-309 |
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サボりなら保健室でどうぞ？第１３話 | 13:44 | 309-339 |
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崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい第１３話 | 13:27 | 339-365 |
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ぜんぶ壊して地獄で愛して第２１話 | 13:31 | 365-399 |
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映しちゃダメな顔第１５話 | 12:35 | 399-431 |
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彩純ちゃんはレズ風俗に興味があります２８夜目 | 1:12 | 431-433 |
Favorite word of the marathon:
点滴穿石
Something like “constant dripping wears away the stone”, was in a knitting scene in 現実世界でも幸せにしてくださいね？第１１話 ^^
So did you hit your goals?
Nope, I missed the goals of a 24-hour marathon by about 30-35 hours considering just the physical things I put in the picture and about 50-100 hours if talking about the digital things I put images of 
xddd
I am really bad at goals, disregard my future attempts at goals xddd
State of yuri manga in 2025
Through the course of the marathon I had a great exposure to a broad range of yuri manga, and my conclusion is that
I really think it’s high time to invent a subgenre from yuri manga that doesn’t involve cute girls doing cute things, schoolgirls falling for one another (or their teachers) and isekai. I read a few nice things, probably カナリアは綺羅星の夢をみる is the one that grew on me the most because the tenth chapter was great, but I’m really feeling ill at the amount of manga that’s basically cute girls screaming out expressions like 大丈夫！！！ or 貴方。。。
Those are two expressions I found out much, much more than I expected to find in the reading today xddd
I really appreciate the mission of コミック百合姫 and you can see that the state of yuri is getting better over time, I do think that the comics in the July issue have been better than the ones in February issue as well, I will keep on supporting them!
Reading a 1000 pages over one marathon
I’m just about to hit level 100 on WaniKani, so I might be a little biased, but I was surprised at how little the mangas I’ve read used grammar beyond N3 level (including the honorifics ones) and WaniKani kanjis beyond level 30 (though there have been a bit more difficult, they almost always had furigana inside of it)
It doesn’t mean that I understood everything smoothly though.
One of the things I’ve given myself a goal of was to try not to think in English while reading at all: at my current level of Japanese it means that I get to miss a lot of story and a lot of story doesn’t stick with me even if I understood it, but the endgame of learning languages is not to interpret things between languages, but build connections in the target language instead.
By “reading” for me I assumed vocalizing words and sentences in my own head - if I couldn’t read the kanji in a second, I would just move on without having read the kanji. That happened way less often than I expected though.
At the very beginning, I found myself often being able to read kanji but not being able to tell what it meant - I have a feeling that over time the same kanji simply started appearing in my head more often and I could read the same sentences easier, even if I didn’t stop at them the first time to try to remember them.
And also, I didn’t wait for my cognition to pick up the meanings of the kanji, so a lot of times I went on ahead without having understood the sentence yet, and sometimes it would understand itself later, sometimes it never would. I’m learning to think in Japanese, not in English xdd
Marathon tips & tricks
As it turns out, I made a few silly things over the course of the marathon I’d like to reconsider before the next one xddd
- Having an hour+ long block of reviews in the middle, for the future I need to whittle down the reviews as much as possible before the marathon xddd
- Stopping the timer to write the posts in the middle, you will have the time later, keep reading for as long as you have time xddd
- Don’t schedule hanging out with friends over the course of the marathon xddd
Or I don’t know, maybe that one did help to get my head off of things xddd
Accolades
Thank you @taiyousea for organizing the marathon in the first place!
Thanks for the discussions in study logs that incentivized me to push myself and reenable the AuDHD hyperfocus mode for today, especially to @Malinkal and @mitrac, who did the most emotional manipulation to me xddd
That’s right, no N2 in コミック百合姫 at all xddd
I distinctly remember someone in Mitrac’s study log saying that reading a lot of easy material is the key to becoming better at Japanese, I can’t find your post now, but thank you to the one who said it - please show yourself! You were right xddd
Thank you to everyone that took part in the marathon this year! I really appreciated the discussions together with you and everyone coming together ^^
And, hopefully, see you in the next one? I definitely will read less in the next one xdd
Time to do my usual Japanese reviews now!