ひらやすみ・Hirayasumi Book Club! (Beginner Japanese Book Club)

If anyone’s using it, I finished my (somewhat patchy) part of the vocab sheet. It’s just my lookups as I worked on getting ahead on the reading, so additions and corrections are welcome :slight_smile:

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Hey @jablekanji. Just checking in regarding the weekly threads. Are you still able to post them? Do you need someone else to take over?

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Hey, thanks for checking in - I’ll post the next 2 tonight as we’re now a week behind. I apologize for the poor management, greatly overestimated the amount of time I’d have on my hands. If someone would like to volunteer to take over that would be great, but if not I will continue to post!

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Can you believe your luck? This week is a two for one special!! ひらやすみ • Hirayasumi Book Club Week 4

In all seriousness, thanks for your patience everyone. Genuinely amazing to see everyone enjoying the volume - I will do my best to pick things up moving forward!

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No worries, life happens! If you’d like, I can take over. If you’d like to keep going, that’s perfectly fine too.

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Thanks! I’ll give it one more go and if I can’t find the time, we can do a handoff. I’ve been moving and it’s been eating my time + didn’t have a laptop to use, but things are starting to settle down :slight_smile:

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I wanted to make this my next physical copy manga series, assuming I liked the first volume. I am enjoying the first volume so far, but the entire series is out of print right now. :cry:

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Don’t worry, it got chosen as a WaniKani book club, so it’s only a matter of time until it gets a reprint. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Is that how these things work?

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There’s a… fairly strong correlation, yeah.

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We shall see… probably won’t be in time for my next manga order at the end of January.

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I actually just finished watching its run as a night drama on Nhkplus and it was really good, I have no idea how many volumes it adapted. Anyway I imagine the drama made the manga extra popular so I’m sure they’ll reprint a bunch more at some point.

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Episode 16 (the last one I’ve seen so far) takes elements from towards the back of volume four (though specifics have been tweaked), so I’d be willing to go out on a limb and say “approximately five volumes”.

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Week 6! ひらやすみ • Hirayasumi Book Club Week 6! And practically on time too!

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When you get a chance, can you add all the links to the table in the OP?

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Done! Updated the interchapter links as well!

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The penultimate week is already here!! The conclusion of volume 1 of Hiroto and Natsumi’s story is looming!

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Happy new year and happy end of volume 1!! ひらやすみ・Hirayasumi Book Club Week 8!

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Did you ask for an offshoot??? BBC Offshoot・ひらやすみ・Hirayasumi Book Club 🏠 Home Thread - Currently Reading Vol 2!

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