Welcome to the :crossed_swords: イクサガミ(天) :crossed_swords: Book Club! Join the Advanced Book Club here ! Natively link イクサガミ is a fictitious story at the beginning of the Meiji era (Meiji 11). A mysterious notice is spread throughout Japan. Those “skilled in martial arts” are promised an opportunit…

Feel free to give feedback for the proposed schedule (page counts are rough estimates give or take 2 pages) The book does have subchapters which can be used for a more smooth distribution across the weeks. Week 2, 5, and 7 I’m not too happy with. But after giving it a decent amount of thought I th…

[image] downtimes: I think the 1 week - 1 chapter pace roughly works out for the club I agree. There are some uneven weeks, but as the Advanced Club aims for 30-50 pages, it falls very nicely into this bracket. And if people are really struggling, they can catch up in the following weeks whic…

I meant Prologue + chapter 1 subchapter 1 and 2. The chapters are named with 大字+ノ章 and the subchapters are named 一、二、三、四、五 with the normal Japanese characters. Week one will be 3 subchapters (prologue and chapter 1 (1 + 2)) and week 2 will also be 3 subchapters (rest of chapter 1 (3 + 4 + 5))

[image] downtimes: I meant Prologue + chapter 1 subchapter 1 and 2. Yep, my bad - when I realized that chapter 1 is ~60 pages, I understood that this must be the subchapters, but I initially thought they were explanations for the numbers :woman_facepalming:

And we are off to our book start. I watched some episodes of the Netflix show. Let’s see how faithful they were. [image] イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 1 Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 1 Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-picture] Week 1 May 3…

Week 2 is up. It is a little longer than week 1 and rounds out the first chapter. Feel free to give feedback if the pace is too fast. [image] イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 2 Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 2 Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-pictu…

And it is time for week3. Week 3 is a little shorter again and encompasses a whole chapter for the first time. [image] # イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 3 Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 3 Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-picture] Week 3 June …

Another week, another chapter to read. We are making good progress. [image] イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 4 Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 4 Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-picture] Week 4 June 20th 2026 Chapter(s) and sections 参ノ章 …

Week 5 is here. Let’s see if our protagonists can make it through the slight cliffhanger of the last chapter. [image] イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 5 Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week 5 Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-picture] Week 4 June 27t…

I’m a little bit behind myself, but the show must go on. Here is week 6 for you all [image] イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week ６ Book Clubs イクサガミ(天) crossed_swords Week ６ Advanced Book Club Home Thread [title-picture] Week 6 July 4th 2026 Chapter(s) and s…

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And it is time for week3. Week 3 is a little shorter again and encompasses a whole chapter for the first time.

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