君に届け Volume 1 | Free to read until January 31st, 2026 (JST)

[GolyBidoof]

Welcome to the 君に届け Speed Run Book Club!

This is the foruth edition of our Speed Run Book Club, following the previous three:

• 自転車屋さんの高橋くん Volumes 1-3: September 30th to October 13rd, 2025
• 花野井くんと恋の病 Volumes 1-3: October 27th to November 9th, 2025
• 推しの子 Volumes 1-2: January 9th to January 31st, 2026

The goal of this book club is to read the first three volumes of 君に届け for as long as it’s available for free until January 31, 2026.

Volume 1:

• Bookwalker
• ebookjapan
• cmoa

Vocabulary list for Volume 1 on Manga Kotoba

君に届け 1 | L21

JP summary

陰気な見た目のせいで怖がられたり謝られたりしちゃう爽子。爽子に分けへだてなく接してくれる風早に憧れている。風早の言葉をきっかけに変わっていけるみたい…。夏休み前、爽子は肝試しでお化け役をやることに!?

EN summary

The story takes place in Hokkaido. 15-year-old high school freshman Sawako Kuronuma—dubbed Sadako by her classmates for her resemblance to the character from The Ring —has always been feared and misunderstood because of her appearance. Rumors around school report that she can see ghosts and curse people. However, despite her ominous appearance, she is actually a sweet and unassuming girl who only longs to be helpful. She has been shunned for so long that the idea of making friends has become foreign to her. When a popular boy, Kazehaya, begins talking with her, everything changes. She finds herself in a new world, making new friends and talking to different people, and she cannot thank Kazehaya enough for giving her these opportunities. Slowly, but surely, a sweet love blossoms between the two as they overcome circumstances and obstacles standing in their way.

There is a Netflix live-action adaptation and an anime based on this manga as well!

The book club runs in parallel to the 推しの子 book club, but is significantly easier than it, so if you were struggling with 推しの子, this might be the right manga for you!

Since this is a speed run book club, the formal end of this book club will occur on 2026-01-31T14:59:00Z, but feel free to continue with us afterwards, and if you’d be interested in continuing with a spin-off book club for the remaining volumes, let us know and the threads can be created!

Do you want to join us in the 君に届け speed run book club?

• I’ll be joining together with the book club!
• Joining after the book club has finished!
• I’ve read the manga in the past already!
• I’m reading the manga in a different language, but I still want to discuss!
• Just lurking/discussing the plot!

Please use this thread for volume 1. All spoilers should go behind blurred spoiler tags or in the a hide details drop down.

Calling the potentially interested people!
@shitsurei, @downtimes, @ChristopherFritz, @Malinkal

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[shitsurei]

Yay, social pressure to read down my tsundoku!

Once I finish 推しの子, that is

[GolyBidoof]

@shitsurei

Yay, social pressure to read down my tsundoku!

Both 推しの子 and 君に届け have been my digital 積読, so those book clubs seem to align really well for me ^^

[ChristopherFritz]

Back in maybe 2018, I started watching the anime (subbed) and reading the manga (English translation), trying to read the source material first, then watch the adaptation, going back and forth.

At the time, I was still just beginning to read manga in Japanese, and that left me with less time for watching anime. I still read a few manga in English, but that reduced even more as I increased the time spent on manga in Japanese. As such, I didn’t get too far into this series. I own through volume 4 in English, but I couldn’t tell you how far I actually read.

I’m looking forward to falling behind on more book clubs dedicating some time to speeding through the first three volumes (even though I already bought the first ten volumes in Japanese on sale some years ago, back when they were still listed as 「リマスター版」).

[GolyBidoof]

@ChristopherFritz

I’m looking forward to falling behind on more book clubs dedicating some time to speeding through the first three volumes (even though I already bought the first ten volumes in Japanese on sale some years ago, back when they were still listed as 「リマスター版」).

Now, come, the idea of the speed run book club is not to fall behind on more book clubs, it’s to go like “you know what, I didn’t have anything better to do anyway”, and then binging the whole availability within like 2 or 3 days ^^

But yes, when it comes to 君に届け, I saw it being popular for a longer while, but I’ve never read it before, it might be fun to go through it!

[ChristopherFritz]

@GolyBidoof

Now, come, the idea of the speed run book club is not to fall behind on more book clubs

About 30 pages per day? This could eat up all my bus commute/lunch break reading time.

@GolyBidoof

it’s to go like “you know what, I didn’t have anything better to do anyway”, and then binging the whole availability within like 2 or 3 days

I’ll send you my boss’s e-mail address so you can make the case for me to take two or three days off. (Although I have so much PTO on the books, my boss is probably looking for any excuse to get me to take a day off.)

Well, maybe I’ll get lucky and find I don’t have too many lookups.

I think I can work with this.

[GolyBidoof]

@ChristopherFritz

I’ll send you my boss’s e-mail address so you can make the case for me to take two or three days off.

Can’t hurt to write a shared template, I’m waking up in about 7 hours from now

I try not to do any pre-work for the manga that I’m attempting to read and only look up things after I’m done with them or in the middle of doing things, and sometimes, if an expression is just being used once, I never bother practicing it until I see it in a different place again

Though, there is one manga called サターンリターン 1 | L32 that is essentially just single-use expressions, and I dread sitting in front of the fourth volume that I have physical right now because I know I’m gonna have to use Google Translate just to be able to make sense of what’s going on in the plot

Graded reading does help understand the things pretty well… to a point??? Or maybe I haven’t gotten to that point yet with the more difficult mangas ^^

This one should be fairly simple, just a lot of text, I think those time estimates should be pretty accurate for me:

[GolyBidoof]

Aaand I’ve started reading the first volume! There’s something just so appealing about the faces of people drawn in the 2000s that’s hard to reproduce today ^^

Prologue

I just find it so funny that his name is 風早くん, I wonder how normal would this name feel in Japan, but they didn’t even go かざはや, they just went basic onyomi readings for both
風早く！！！！
…ん ^^

i had a feeling that writing the kanji for 早く this way is ILLEGAL xddddd

there’s this word that is being used a few times and it made me go, “huh”

びびる。。。

Episode 1

Oh damn, she got him embarrassed with enough respect

Might be a pretty good strategy for picking up people ^^

confused dogo very important

i’m finding it really hard to read those tiny scribbles across the manga, not even Mokuro succeeds at them well

and i knew they’d sit right next to one another, but the from the raffle illustrations leading to this panel was very sweet ^^

Episode 2

uuu, kansai-ben again

just wanted to complain at how many scribbles there are across this chapter especially, those are almost the only words i have to look up because i can’t read those kanji on the first try i look at them

and that’s so ドキドキ

Episode 3

ooo, starting with a illustration that’s really pretty C:

most normal fan of ghost stories be like:

OOO NARUTO FANBASE IS BACK IN THE HOUSE:

man, she doesnt even look that shoujo xddd

i do get the sentiment though ^^
and I do love 黒沼’s little faces C:

And hey, that’s exactly the meme from the top of this post ^^

Overall, I found the volume to be very claustrophobically loud, not in a ナナ-expressive way, but there’s always something happening in the background of every frame and I get pulled away from the main story point, but it does make the solemn pieces hit harder when they appear on the screen ^^

I’m a bit torn on the difficulty of this one, because as for the actual printed text, I didn’t have to look up much at all, but the hand-written text is really difficult and I was just given up if my in-head-detection-algorithm was returning no pattern matches for a specific character ^^

I’ll probably take a break and not continue now, but volume 1 of the story has been cleared!

[Malinkal]

@GolyBidoof

I’m a bit torn on the difficulty of this one, because as for the actual printed text, I didn’t have to look up much at all, but the hand-written text is really difficult and I was just given up if my in-head-detection-algorithm was returning no pattern matches for a specific character ^^

When I was reading this I was thinking “hmm I bet Bidoof and other people are going to have a tough time with the handwritten text” because there’s so much of it and quite a bit of it is written in like shorthand-esque style too
I could read like almost all of it thanks to handwriting practice but it still took quite a bit of time. The one-page “making of” things which were put in there occasionally though, I gave up on those, life is too short

@GolyBidoof

Might be a pretty good strategy for picking up people ^^

Slight spoiler beware

Actually very very extremely inefficient as this manga goes on to show later on lol

[ChristopherFritz]

@GolyBidoof

there’s this word that is being used a few times and it made me go, “huh”

You've gotta read more school manga!

@GolyBidoof

i’m finding it really hard to read those tiny scribbles across the manga, not even Mokuro succeeds at them well

I’ve been ignoring them. I read them all in English forever ago and don’t remember them and that’s good enough for me.

It is a bit hard to believe this is (was originally listed as) the “remaster” edition. (The original release digital was slightly lower quality.)

I’m maybe…about two hours of reading in? Hoping to finish the first volume on Wednesday, so I’m free to read all the book club chapters that I’m almost behind on!

[TheNerdyNova]

@Malinkal

Slight spoiler beware

Actually very very extremely inefficient as this manga goes on to show later on lol

Wait you got me curious now, do you remember at what point/volume that is? I’m reading the series for the first time and my next volume is 13

[Malinkal]

@TheNerdyNova

Wait you got me curious now, do you remember at what point/volume that is? I’m reading the series for the first time and my next volume is 13

Summary

Well tbf I don’t know if it’s exactly the same in the manga, I’ve only watched the anime and live action versions so far
I just mean that the fact that 風早 thinks that 爽子 just thinks of him in this “lots of respect” way and so his 好き is different from her 好き in that will-they-won’t-they period before they properly confront each other is one of the reasons why they take so bloody long to get together
That’s my interpretation at least

[TheNerdyNova]

Response

Ahhh, yes you are right!! It is the same in the manga, and I agree with your interpretation thanks for your response!