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Discussion Guidelines
Everybody should feel free to post and ask questions–it’s what makes book clubs fun! But please do not post until you are familiar with Spoiler Courtesy!
Spoiler Courtesy
Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.
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For the Bookwalker version of this manga, the page numbers in the panels and the page number in the UI are always 2 apart. If you subtract 2 from the UI page number, this will give you the accurate page number!
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This is the last week of the book club as the ABBC book club. However, @zucchi in the home thread has volunteered to run an offshoot club, so that will be starting in the future (possibly with a break for Christmas)
Hope you all enjoyed the book club! For those who have finished their first manga, congratulations! Hopefully the experience will help you read more in the future, whether it’s the offshoot club for card captor sakura, future ABBC reads, or independent reading.
For those who did not finish this manga, don’t feel bad. I failed to keep up with my first club too, back when it was ルリドラゴン. You’re of course free to follow along at your own time, the threads for this book club will be open for a long time yet, or if you want to try something a little easier, the next ABBC book club is a volume of Doraemon and starts in one week.
Alternatively, if you feel like you want something a little more challenging, the Beginner Book Club is also starting a new manga next week with ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (not to be confused with ぼっち・ざ・ろっく, which the Intermediate Manga Club is currently reading, but is even harder).
Also if you’re reading the anniversary edition and going “Wait, the club is over? There’s two chapters left!”, then it’s worth mentioning that chapters 6 and 7 are part of volume 2 for everyone else. So if you join the offshoot you’ll get to read them with a club too, or you can read them on your own time if you’d prefer that option.
Thank you so much for running this club!! I remember asking whether or not it would be a bad idea to join back in August (maybe?) when I was pretty early on in Genki I and had just gotten started on WaniKani. I had only done graded readers, so every page was a massive chore when we got started. Since then, not only have my skills picked up with reading, but I’m about as far into Genki II as I was Genki I, and I gained the confidence to read a handful of other easy manga concurrently with this club. (On Yotsuba vol. 3 right now and I know it’s the cliche 1st manga but it is so cute I genuinely love reading it) Thanks so much to everyone contributing to this club week after week too, it’s been a blast! Hope everyone had as good as an experience as I have. Also, now that I’ve finished volume one, I’m itching to read more, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for the offshoot club as well. Well done everyone!
It has been so lovely reading along in the club with everyone over the past couple of months I just finished up the final section and had so much fun with the whole volume. This is my first time doing a whole book with a book club and I can tell my reading has improved so much and I have gained a lot of helpful tips that will carry me through more reading on my own time. Thank you so much araigoshi for hosting this club!!
I think I will take a break from clubs for a little bit, mostly because I bought the wrong volume of Doraemon (I have just plain old volume 1) but will definitely look out for a future club for this series! I really want to continue on I still don’t fully trust Yukito
The ending to this volume was really nice and I’m glad it mostly wrapped up and didn’t end on a big cliffhanger. I can’t wait to see what sort of stuff Sakura and the team continue to handle! I might try to post my translations for this final set of pages later next week
Thank you @araigoshi for running the book club, and thank you everyone for participating in!
Having a weekly thread was a very nice source of motivation. The translations I did at the beginning were also a very nice exercise, and I’m happy it could help others.
My last book club was Horimiya a year ago, and Sakura felt significantly easier. I feel I could go back to Rentaru onichan or Horimiya and finish them without too much trouble.
I’ll be reading the BBC next week. The ABBC looks really simple, so maybe I’ll also keep an eye on it, we’ll see.
Congrats everyone who’s done! It was so fun reading with everyone . I was happy to finish it along with everyone else.
Although it definitely felt like a manga targeted more towards a younger audience, it was still surprisingly fun to read. Going into it, I knew I was going to enjoy the art because a long time ago, I liked the anime’s art as well, and other works by CLAMP are also gorgeous… but it was genuinely fun being able to read the manga in Japanese~
The most challenging part for me was the kansai ben, since I rarely get to hear it / consume media that has it, but by the end of the volume, some of the different grammar stuck with me so I didn’t have to look it up~
Well, I finally got around to reading this just in time for it to end, lol. Oh well, it was a good read, and I plan on going マイペース for the offshoot club, too.
I need to join the chorus of “thank yous” as well. I haven’t read this section yet, but like others I would have never read this far without a little community to help me stay focused and motivated. My reading skills have definitely improved. I find I study Japanese in waves (eg will go really hard on wanikani for a few weeks, then nothing for a few weeks), and the book club has made sure I’m at least doing something every once in a while so my skills don’t totally stagnate. There was a lot of material in this series that was more difficult than I expected, and I don’t think I would have challenged myself to work through it without everyone’s help. Thank you everyone! I will see you in the offshoot thread and maybe also some of the other (A)BBC threads too
Adding to the well-deserved wave of thank yous, araigoshi!
This wasn’t my first time reading manga, but it was my first book club, and I really enjoyed the experience! I did end up a bit delayed on the reading for the last couple weeks, but I’m caught up now and looking forward to the start of zucchi’s offshoot club. Congrats and thank you to all the other participants too - reading other people’s translations here was definitely helpful!
Card Captor Sakura Book Club!
I just finished up the final section and had so much fun with the whole volume. This is my first time doing a whole book with a book club and I can tell my reading has improved so much and I have gained a lot of helpful tips that will carry me through more reading on my own time. Thank you so much araigoshi for hosting this club!!
so cute
