ホリミヤ ・ Horimiya 🎀 👓 (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

Yeah, Gorbit already explained it well; I did have intent to go through and edit it before the first week, but I dropped the ball on it a bit; I’ve gotten a little behind.

I’m hoping to sneak in a bit of time right after work today before I go out, but I am not sure I’ll be able to. At a minimum, I’ll try and get the first 5 pages worth of vocab taken care of. I just have a particularly busy weekend ahead of me.

Do take care of yourself, no need to try to force in a lot of work when you are already busy.

So, you’re right, the manga vocab is not on there yet. But Koohi has a feature that lets you import your own vocabulary and I used the vocab list from in this thread. It’s not immediately obvious that the option even exists and I had to dig around the forum before stumbling onto it, but it works great. I’d be happy to make a post showing how to do it.

Totally understand, thanks for everything you do!

Oh man…this is a bit like rocket sience for me :melting_face:
I was able to get Python and I could run the Mokuro install command. But this screenshot thing is giving me headaches!

I eventually found out how to open the console on Chrome on my Macbook and then I try to follow the Readme description. But I guess Bookwalker won’t let me download that stuff I guess. Here is what my console looks like when I open it while Horimiya is open

Then the Readme says “Paste the Javascript code into the console, then press Enter.” I guess here I should copy and paste the https… but when I hit Enter nothing happens.

Not the https, that would be the link. The actual contents of the “simulator.js” file is what you need to copy and paste in.

Thanks! Like I said…rocket science :sweat_smile:
Downloading right now. Next challenge will be running them in Mokuro.

There’s a first time for everything, gotta get used to it before you get proficient

Just managed to buy it digitally on Bookwalker. I had no idea that you could use a U.S. credit card on Japanese websites; in fact I used PayPal and it even showed me how much it was in USD. Bookwalker seems pretty alright for Japanese versions of manga, it’s really easy.

I had to buy the volume in browser but I can read it on the IOS app, and the quality is serviceable. I mean, for $4.97 USD to get a volume, I’ll take the slightly low quality images. I’m excited to get into it!

On the vocab sheet can we please make the very light grayed out definitions slightly darker? I find it annoying and counter productive to even have it on the sheet at all if it’s barely readable.

Having a light gray color helps make it clear that it hasn’t been reviewed/updated by anyone, but that doesn’t mean it has to be too light.

I’ve darkened it for week one.

Before I update it for all weeks, I want to ensure I didn’t pick a different bad choice.

So, poll?

Which colors look comfortably readable for you on your device?

image

  • dark gray 3
  • dark gray 2
  • dark gray 1
  • gray
  • light gray 1
0 voters

I mean, theoretically there is a standard for this. Apparently anything below dark grey 3 fails wcag aa contrast requirement.

Maybe there’s a better option? Like using a background colour

Thank you for addressing this. It’s super appreciated! :slight_smile:

I just discovered that this used to be a webcomic. Funny. I only read a bit, but it’s the same story so far.

Yeah, that was originally called “Hori-san to Miyamura-kun”. There is even an anime with the same name, to make the whole thing more confusing.

Two anime, since both the webcomic and the manga got anime series!

Aye, but the one based on the manga is called “Horimiya”, like the manga.

Also, the one based on the webcomic was a six-episode OVA, rather than an actual series.

A webcomic, a manga, and (now) 3 anime series actually. But the anime I meant is also called Hori-san to Miyamura-kun, it’s also pretty well rated on mal.

The webcomic is kind of a mess to try to read (recently finished reading the first volume of it). There’s 10 volumes of the webcomic, and then like 16 volumes of a second series of the webcomic that’s afterstory stuff. Highly recommend the OVA adaptation of the webcomic, it is super cute. (Although, doesn’t go very far)

There’s also a jdrama adaptation too! There’s so many adaptations and retellings and reworkings of this story, you can really pick your poison :laughing:

That’s largely why they made a new version, with a new artist. :slightly_smiling_face:

Aye, I learnt about that the other day too. Might have to see if I can find a place to watch it.