Current chapter start date: August 12, 2022
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We’re reading ルーパーズ as part of the Visual Novel Book Club!
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Character count for me was almost 8600 characters, so be warned, this is our longest yet.
The transition to ヒルダ blew out my eardrums and I can no longer run this club because I am dead 
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What in the world is that calming method? He… shoved his thumb into the bottom of her throat more or less, right? Starting to choke would uhh, not calm me down. That’s awful 
This is my first time seeing タイムスリップ, what a good word. On that vocab front though, I feel bad for those of us doing manual lookups when they hit the doctor part, haha. The disease names and particularly anatomical words for body parts sure aren’t vocab I’ve interacted with. ミア proving her knowledge of レオナ is a pain too with all the names and whatnot.
As for overall impressions, huge advancements this chapter, and it’s nice to see our leads interacting more. Seems the simplest explanation, that the loop had restarted, was indeed correct. Kinda figured, but it’s fun to throw out every possibility I can think of. Overall I had fun but kind of a less compelling chapter for me – even though there were huge developments, most sit exactly in what I would extrapolate from the very concept of a game about looping. Seems we’re playing relatively close to standard tropes, though the addition of mystery sickness and the suggestion that this thing is something worse than it appears is interesting (and the remaining questions about 探し女).
More than anything, it’s a devastating day to be on team レオナ. Won’t be seeing her for a while I suppose. It seems to be implied that she was looping along with the others, but they said they watched her slowly deteriorating. So the other two in the hospital might also be loopers? I wonder if this inevitably happens after doing it long enough, or if it’s something else.
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Headphones are strongly discouraged. 
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I do love ヒルダ but she really does need to stop yelling so much, I can’t ever get my volume placement right with her
I’m still reading the chapter (I’m at about the 5k mark), I’ll probably finish it tomorrow and post my thoughts then.
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This was with speakers! Still dead, but yeah, it could’ve been even worse hahaha. 
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… Oh noes, I’m in for a tough week, I see… 
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Yeah, hang in there! Some parts are relatively easy and repetitive, but also, mentioned it under my spoilers, there are a couple sections I’d consider vocab difficulty spikes. They aren’t too long, but just so you’re aware. You’ve got this though 
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Thanks! I’ll do my best by definitely planing to read over a couple of days.
I look forward to reading your spoiler comments. 
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頑張ってね！I’m halfway through, and so far it is much easier vocab-wise than the last chapter! Less mentally taxing too. (That last one was particularly hard on both counts for me.)
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I finished the chapter now. The first half was relatively easy but the second half was definitely a lot more lookup heavy this time around. Also, for anyone that is curious, my texthook has the total amount through 5 chapters at 29,761 characters. So about 22% of the way finished at this point.
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When I read that I had take a minute to carefully re-read it. It was one of those scenes that was so weird I couldn’t help but question if I was reading it correctly
Yes, that part was definitely the toughest this week for me! The first half had a lot of nice parts where I didn’t even have to yomichan anything then that scene came up and it felt like I was yomichan’ing everything haha.
Overall, I thought the chapter was nice. Not too much happened to really determine why these things are happening but at least we are in the looping stages now and all of the characters are aware of it.
Also, ミア said she has spent 5 years with レオナ, right? Was the implication there that they have been repeating August 1st for 5 years now? I think they said for better or worse, her wish came true and that’s how she fell into the coma. So if they’ve known each other for 5 years worth of time, were they looping and then レオナ did something that caused her to enter a coma during it? Guess we don’t have enough info at this time to know but definitely some interesting questions have popped up from this chapter.
I enjoyed this line from ヒルダ as they were explaining the loop. She has her priorities straight, clearly
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Not touching the blurred out spoiler sections yet - I don’t think that part has happened yet 
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I, on the other hand, couldn’t hold myself and binged it
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. So far it’s around 2400 c/h, hopefully I can see it improve over time even if a little. It depends heavily on how much vocab I need to look up though, so if it doesn’t slow at some point I believe that will be my speed for this VN. It’s good to have a reference to see more or less how long a chapter would take.