せーラー服と機関銃
Intermediate book club
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| Week 17 | 8 June 2024 |
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| End page | 279 |
| End point (kindle) | 3451 |
| End phrase | 第四章 end of section 1 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Previous week | Week 16 |
| Next week | Week 18 |
| Home Thread | せーラー服と機関銃 |
Vocabulary
Google sheet:
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
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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Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
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Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
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Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
Instructions for Spoiler Tags
Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).
Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:
Example
This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.
The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.
This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.
Proper Nouns
| Name | Hiragana reading | Notes | Kindle location first mentioned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 赤川次郎 | あかがわじろう | the author | cover |
| 尾田医師 | おだいし | Doctor Oda | 24 |
| 目高組 | めだかぐみ | Medaka clan | 86 |
| Izumi’s family | |||
| 星泉 | ほしいずみ | main character, Izumi | 170 |
| 酒井好子 | さかいよしこ | aunt Yoshiko | 172 |
| 星貴志 | ほしたかし | main character’s father, Takashi | 179 |
| 酒井呈一 | さかいていいち | Uncle (Yoshiko’s husband) | 201 |
| 知子 | ともこ | Tomoko (?Izumi’s mother) | 211 |
| マユミ | - | mysterious woman in Izumi’s apartment | 348 |
| 土田恒美 | つちだつねみ | Tsunemi, real name of the woman pretending to be Mayumi | 1,827 |
| 岡崎真由美 | おかざきまゆみ | The real name of Mayumi, friend of Izumi’s father, photographer. | 2,549 |
| Classmates | |||
| 奥沢哲夫 | おくざわてつお | Classmate of Izumi, Tetsuo (son of an executive, smart dresser, family expect him home for dinner on time) | 251 |
| 渡辺周平 | わたなべしゅうへい | Classmate of Izumi, Shuhei (stocky, bowlegged, loves Judo) | 251 |
| 竹内智生 | たけうちともお | Classmate of Izumi, Tomo. (Smart, heading for Tokyo university, wears glasses) | 261 |
| 和子 | かずこ | classmate, | 433 |
| Schoolteachers | |||
| 三浦久子 | みうらひさこ | Miss Miura, teacher | 357 |
| 保科校長 | ほしなこうちょう | Headteacher Hoshina | 368 |
| Yakuza | |||
| 健次 | けんじ | Kenji, Medaka gang member, short, unbalanced (brought the doctor in the car in the prologue), chews gum | 555 |
| 英樹 | ひでき | Hideki, Medaka gang member, skinny and unhealthy looking, wears thick glasses | 556 |
| 武 | たけし | Takeshi, Medaka gang member, stocky and overweight | 558 |
| 佐久間 | さくま | Sakuma, Medaka second in command, unusually tall (‘beanpole’), in 50s | 558 |
| 浜口 | はまぐち | Hamaguchi, local Yakuza chief | 1,034 |
| 関根 | せきね | Sekine, head of the Matsunoki clan | 2,141 |
| 元 | げん | Gen, Yakuza henchman in the Matsunoki clan | 2,306 |
| 剛 | つよし | Tsuyoshi, yakuza henchman in the Matsunoki clan | 2,306 |
| 萩原 | はぎわら | Hagiwara, messenger from a ‘big fish’ | 3,211 |
| Other characters | |||
| 黒木 | くろき | detective, head of the S section | 870 |
| 浜口物産 | はまぐちぶっさん | Hamaguchi trading company | 936 |
| 野田代議士 | のだだいぎし | Representative Noda, politician, waiting for Hamaguchi | 1,064 |
| 岩田 | いわた | Night watchman at Izumi’s apartment block | 1665 |
| 関根正明 | せきねまさあき | Son of Sekine, the head of the Matsunoki clan | 2,073 |
| 円谷重治 | つぶらやしげはる | Shigeharu, left name on business card at Izumi’s apartment | 2,665 |
| マクシム | - | Maxim’s [I presume this is a reference to the famous Parisian restaurant] | 2,480 |
| 三大寺一 | さんだいじはじめ | Hajime, ‘big boss’, kidnapper of Izumi, nicknamed ‘the fat man’, and ‘Doc’ | 3326 |
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Participation
Will you be reading along with us this week?
- I’m reading along
- I have finished this part
- I’m still reading the book but I haven’t reached this part yet
- I’m reading this book after the club has finished
- I’m no longer reading the book
If you’ve already read this book but are still going to join the discussion, please select “I have finished this part.”
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