Wow, you’re fast! I better get started with vol. 3 soon 
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Actually I’ll slow down in July when the reading challenge starts up again and I spend more time on prose reads. In the off month I’m just having fun reading manga. Also it’s fun to push myself and see how fast I can finish a volume. This one only took 10 days!
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I’m just at the beginning of volume 3! It’s so exciting that we’re all at the same point omg (even if just for a short time) 
I have to slow down on reading/Japanese while I deal with various other things on my plate irl but I wanna finish this arc so bad 
I’ll probably use this weekend to read as much as I can from Vol. 3 (and maybe into Vol. 4?? wishful thinking)
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YAYYY twins!!! I’m kind of living for this tiny book club (but of course if any lurkers want to join us reading please do 
)
I believe in you!! 
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I am still in volume 1 
BTW how do you post pictures on here?
Question: In chapter 4 pg 112 after the eraser falls on Kakashi, Sasuke says 頼りなさそうな 奴だな, meaning “guy looks unreliable”.
I am confused about the 頼りなさそうな. 頼りない means unreliable and is listed as an い-adjective in the dictionary, so I would have thought “looks unreliable” would be 頼りなそうな . It isn’t the negative version either because that would be 頼りなくなさそうな, right?
I’m guessing the answer is something simple… 
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You’re very close on that grammar point! At first, it looks like they’re using the adjective 頼りない (unreliable), which would be conjugated as 頼りなくなさそう, as you said. However, なさそう can also be connected to verb stems, in this case for the verb 頼る (to rely on) whose stem is 頼り, becoming 頼りなさそう. The meaning changes from “this guy looks unreliable” to something more like “looks like I/we can’t rely on this guy”
As for images, I’m on desktop so I just drag screenshots into the reply box And on mobile I think you can use the image icon to upload from your personal folder
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Ah! So close, thanks for the help!
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TBH i don’t question this at all, it kind of makes perfect sense in my head (i’m thinking like a more guttural sound?)
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omg so less like “AHH!” and more like “AAUGH!” idk why I’ve never seen (probably just never noticed, actually) that type of dakuten on a random vowel before… how would I even type this, I’m so fascinated
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Ok, I tried to find how to type it but gave up. Kept getting 'just type あ + ” ’ but that wasn’t working on my ime at least
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I agree - these expressions really say it
But I liked explanation, that
“Dakutan are meant to imply a sound is being made from the chest/ harder/ lower.
So yea, 「あ゛」 is more of a bloodcurdling scream/ battle cry”
There’s also this helpful video with pronounciation 
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Typing is difficult. I haven’t found a way to type on my mobile either(
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i finished volume 3!! 
my comfort level with these dialogue styles is at an all-time high, i haven’t had any trouble parsing the casual speech – or even new jutsu names – at all in this volume.
some volume 3 highlights: (minor situational spoilers, no story spoilers)
more light-eyed sasuke propaganda
this is my ongoing conspiracy theory that Kishimoto was trying to give sasuke light eyes at the start of the series but eventually settled on fully-black several volumes in, which isn’t incredibly noticeable because there aren’t too many sasuke-focused face panels except for EVERY NOW AND THEN!! and i notice them!!!
fireball jutsu art i liked
Kishimoto definitely favors fire jutsus because why is fire-style art always insanely cool?!
only one volume left until the end of the arc 
the land of waves arc is exciting but i can’t wait to get to the chuunin exams arc!!
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Hey, @taiyousea, is it ok if I’ll add a column for page number in the vocab list? I’ve started vol. 3 and I kinda like vocab lists recently, so I’m thinking about populating it a bit.
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Yes, absolutely! Once I started using using the Yomitan-Anki connection I got very lazy with the vocab sheet 
If there’s anything you want to do/add to make it more accessible and easy to use, feel free!
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ahhh, everyones reading volume 3! I should join
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h-how many books do you currently have ongoing
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d…don’t worry about it
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Google Sheets works with Yomitan (on editing) too, but it’s work to enter every readings and meanings, rather than just headwords.
Yomitan doesn’t give Naruto page numbers, so this is required.
gsheets doesn’t Yomitan on read-only mode, though it can work when published as a website.
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Thanks!
I think I was like this too after introduction to Yomitan, but now my love to vocab lists back with vengeance. Somehow I just like to tinker with it.
Yay! Please do join!
I’m slow (as visible on Natively).
Also completely prepared to die in September when I’ll have holidays and then danmeshi’ll start.
Ahh, thanks, maybe I should look it up
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