カードキャプターさくら・Card Captor Sakura Book Club 🌸 Week 8

Welcome to the eighth week of the カードキャプターさくら :cherry_blossom: Card Captor Sakura Book Club!

Week 7 19th October 2024
Refurbished Edition
Start Page 79
End page 94
Original Edition
Start Page 77
End page 90
End phrase End of chapter 2
Pages 14
Last Week Week 7
Next week Week 9
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Vocabulary

See also Manga Kotoba

Please read the guidelines on the first page before adding any words.

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

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Proper Nouns

Name Reading Image Notes
木之本桜 きのもと さくら Main character
大道寺知世 だいどうじ ともよ Sakura’s cousin and best friend
木之本桃矢 きのもと とうや Sakura’s Older Brother
月城雪兎 つきしろ ゆきと Sakura’s Older Brother’s Best Friend
ケルベロス
ケロ
ケルベロス Sakura’s companion

Discussion Questions

  1. What sentence/passage gave you the most difficulty? Feel free to request some help, or if you figured it out on your own break it down for the rest of us!
  2. What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?
  3. Was there any passage that you found particularly intriguing? Did it resonate with you (either positively or negatively)? Was it surprising? Offer any insight or new perspective? Was it just beautifully written?

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A fun and easy chapter! I like how Sakura’s speech gets more archaic/elaborate when she’s in card captor mode.

Favorite new vocab was ひょっと - seems like a useful word.

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Yay that was a cute chapter~

Screenshot spoiler so cute


the birdie is so precious

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Such a breeze!

More than halfway done!

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Indeed. A couple sentences are not entirely clear, but overall something really difficult this week.

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Feels good to get the hang of reading. I’ve been having less trouble than I originally imagined, and now I can get the gist of things without looking up as many words as before.

Also, funny how we went from 56 people reading along or being ahead (source: week 1 poll) to only 11. I wonder what happened along the way… lol

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There’s usually a large drop off and this is one of the harder ABBC manga. If we look at last week’s manga there were 20 that finished it though, so hopefully people stick to the end.

Also I’ve generally been too busy to fill out the vocab sheet ahead of time, which probably hasn’t helped.

And for people who’ve dropped out, feel free to come back next time or later! There’s no shame in trying again later if it didn’t work out

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Yeah, keeping up the pace is not easy.

I used to write a complete translation each week, but now that we read more pages, this has gotten trickier.

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Not doing a translation this week mostly just bc I’m busy but it’s also a super easy week so doesn’t feel too bad to miss. Honestly not much to say about this week. Looks like we’re about halfway through and tbh I’m not really feeling hooked on the series but I’ll see the volume through at least!

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Once again posting to say I’ve read this week (I’m catching up!! Slowly but surely!). I was actually going to post this exact image when I finished, funny to see someone else had the same thought. So many beautiful/cute panels this week. I’m also a fan of the double-page splash at the end with Sakura flying over the city.

I’m also finding I’m doing less translations as time goes on (not that I ever posted mine because I was lazy). For a bit I was writing everything out but I think that was part of the contribution to falling behind. I’m really trying hard to finish this manga!

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I also did want to give thanks to you for organizing this and trying to keep it going despite all the obstacles being thrown in your way. I imagine it is not easy!

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Just a quick update to say I’ve finished week 8’s reading and am still reading at my own pace!

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I’ve finally finished week 8 as well, feels good to be getting caught up! This section felt like such a breeze after reading all of week 7’s section yesterday haha, it took me less than half the time!

I really liked this chapter It was really nice getting to see Sakura being so compassionate to the bird and I love the running joke of her constantly sleeping late haha. I love all the minor panels of Tomoyo cheering Sakura on in the background too.

This series is just so cute so far, I’m enjoying it so much :blush: Feels amazing to be halfway through now!

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