かがみの孤城 (Kagami no Kojou) Book Club

No worries! With the current state of the poll I expect that we will just stick with the original schedule.

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I closed the poll and we’re sticking with the original schedule, so here is week 26 and we’re finishing the 三月 chapter!

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This is my third comment in a row again. Can someone else add a comment before I have to post the final thread next week?

And it’s time for the penultimate thread! This week the first half of the 閉城 chapter is on the schedule. We’re really approaching the end now!

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Hmmmmm… ok :sweat_smile:

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I was wondering for the last week: do we want to have a separate spoiler thread where we can discuss everything in the book without using spoiler tags to avoid the hassle? Do we need a separate thread for that in case someone wants to ask questions without accidentally seeing spoilers for the very end?

I’m not sure what you all want so here’s another poll :slightly_smiling_face:. You can choose multiple options if you are fine with more than one of the solutions.

  • Create two threads (one for the last week like normal and a separate spoiler thread for the book as a whole)
  • Create one thread and just don’t bother with spoiler tags in that thread
  • Create only one thread and do use spoiler tags like normal

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I feel like there isn’t much left to discuss/spoil in that last part :thinking:
That being said, in terms of organization, it feels nicer to have two thread, I guess? I think we usually discuss the whole book in the main thread (the re:zero group being the only exception I know), but it’s indeed better to have a place where we don’t need to use spoiler tags.

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Option 4: Create the last thread following the normal rules and join us all for the read aloud of the epilogue and subsequent book discussion on June 19th. :slight_smile:

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Well, it’s the final week for the forum threads. The poll has spoken against the separate spoiler thread (and we will use spoiler tags), so here is the final week’s thread!

Don’t forget that the read aloud sessions are continuing a little longer and as mentioned by @seanblue above, there will be a read aloud of the epilogue and subsequent book discussion on Discord on June 19th!
(link to discord: Japanese Book Club)

Congratulations everyone for making it to the end. Enjoy!

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With the end of the final week, it is time for the final polls!

Did you read かがみの孤城?
  • I finished it
  • I’m still reading and I plan on finishing it
  • I don’t plan to finish it
  • I never even started it

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If you read the book, how would you rate it on a 5 point scale? (1: hated it, 5: loved it)
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Unsure / Didn’t finish

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If you read the book, how would you rate its difficulty?
  • No effort at all
  • Minimal effort
  • Moderate effort
  • Significant effort
  • So much effort my head might explode
  • I don’t know

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Looking back, we started the club seven months ago (on November 6) with 29 participants according to the week 1 poll and a thread with 124 comments in the first week :smiley:. At the halfway point there were around 10 people participating and in this last week we had 12.

Thank you everyone who participated!

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I guess I’m in the liminal space of: not currently reading it but plan to get back to it at some point

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By the way, we are starting our read aloud session early today (in about 20 minutes) and will be finishing the rest of the book. We will not be meeting next week.

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There’s finally a trailer for the anime! Two short ones actually: 映画『かがみの孤城』超特報映像【2022年冬 全国公開】 - YouTube and 映画『かがみの孤城』特報映像【12月23日(金)全国公開】 - YouTube

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