シャドーハウス Volume 21

Japanese Language Book Clubs
1

Volume 21 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 2026-01-23T15:00:00Z

08X10000000068538000_cover
08X10000000068538000_cover1440×2048 1.06 MB

シャドーハウス Reading Club Home Thread

Frequency List

Reading Schedule

image
image512×153 3.65 KB

With a 50% on pace, we’ll go at the slower pace. Feel free to read a bit faster, then come back to participate in the discussion!

Week Start Date Chapter
Week 1 Jan 24 Ch 220 ジョゼフの思惑
Week 2 Jan 31 Ch 221 昔語り
Week 3 Feb 7 Ch 222 平和ボケ
Week 4 Feb 14 Ch 223 氷解
Week 5 Feb 21 Ch 224 コールマインと共に
Week 6 Feb 28 Ch 225 再会
Week 7 Mar 7 Ch 226 おじい様への想い
Week 8 Mar 14 Ch 227 見学
Week 9 Mar 21 Ch 228 成長の機会
Week 10 Mar 28 Ch 229 ミアの居場所
Week 11 Apr 4 Ch 230 旗揚げ

Discussion Rules

  • If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
  • Please mention the chapter and page number.
  • Please use spoiler tags for major events.
  • If you read ahead, please hold questions until during or after the appropriate week.
3 Likes
シャドーハウス Reading Club
2

Chapter 220 ジョゼフの思惑

Start Date: 2026-01-23T15:00:00Z

08_X10000_000068_2_005_001
08_X10000_000068_2_005_0011440×2048 966 KB

Participation

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll. (You can change your answer later if you’d like.)

  • I’m reading along.
  • I have finished this part.
  • I will catch up later.
0 voters

If you’ve read it before but will join in the discussion (or have read ahead), please select “I’m reading along”!

3 Likes
3

Chapter 221 昔語り

Start Date: 2026-01-30T15:00:00Z

image
image1148×401 274 KB

Participation

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll. (You can change your answer later if you’d like.)

  • I’m reading along.
  • I have finished this part.
  • I will catch up later.
0 voters

If you’ve read it before but will join in the discussion (or have read ahead), please select “I’m reading along”!

2 Likes
4
Chapters 220 and 221

I’m glad everything is coming out in the open. Could all the bad child administrators really have just been incompetence from the higher ups making the staffing decisions? I can believe it.

It’s harder to believe there’s nothing more Joseph could have done to prevent things from getting this bad. We’re the Big 3 Guardians there from the beginning? If not, maybe he could have taken action before they matured.

He said there is always at least 2 of them guarding Shadow Grandpa, but I recall a chapter where two of them went to town to get more kids. Maybe he counts as one of the two there.

I also can’t believe we still don’t know what’s up with Shadow Grandpa! He was already there when Joseph woke up? Come on :weary_face:

I’m also surprised it hasn’t come up where the coffee came from, especially since he brought up the coffee in this week’s chapter.

It’s also still not clear to me why Joseph stayed in control instead of the morph that fused with him. Maybe they’ll go into that more later.

Them intentionally promoting someone who is “safely” incompetent is hilarious though. I enjoyed the summary at the end of the changing administrators.

5 Likes
5
Ch 221

image
image1119×837 278 KB

Somehow the idea that Kate could potentially uncover her face never occurred to me, but it makes a lot of sense! I can totally picture this happening near or at the end of the series.

5 Likes
6

I think it will be funny when she uncovers her face and she looks nothing like エミリコ

3 Likes
7

Chapter 222 平和ボケ

Start Date: 2026-02-06T15:00:00Z

image
image872×611 239 KB

Participation

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll. (You can change your answer later if you’d like.)

  • I’m reading along.
  • I have finished this part.
  • I will catch up later.
0 voters

If you’ve read it before but will join in the discussion (or have read ahead), please select “I’m reading along”!

3 Likes
8
Chapter 222

I was wondering how faceless dolls were supposed to restrain an adult shadow. I guess they relied on the honor system up until now :sweat_smile:

I was frustrated though. Anthony has been this untouchable mastermind up until now, and I thought they were finally going to be able to turn things around on him. I can’t wait until he finally gets his!

1 Like
9

Chapter 223 氷解

Start Date: 2026-02-13T15:00:00Z

image
image574×347 83.3 KB

Participation

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll. (You can change your answer later if you’d like.)

  • I’m reading along.
  • I have finished this part.
  • I will catch up later.
0 voters

If you’ve read it before but will join in the discussion (or have read ahead), please select “I’m reading along”!

2 Likes
10
Chapter 223

Good on Bell for not letting Anthony manipulate her! I thought she was a goner though. This is one of the few times we’ve seen things not go Anthony’s way, which is funny since I just mentioned I wanted to see that last week.

Although he still managed to escape a many versus situation. And he tossed Benjamin around like a ragdoll. That was surprising. He’s basically a secret agent like James Bond or Ethan Hunt! Except he’s a bad guy.

1 Like