This offshoot reading club is to continue reading this ongoing series together through scheduled reading. This series has many volumes, so there’s a lot of material to read!
This is a geisha district in the middle of Kyoto. Maiko comes home after working late at night, and lives in a shared-house called a yakata. Kiyo, a 16-year-old girl who prepares daily meals for the maiko at a certain house as a makanai-san. There is an unexpected reason why she became a makanai-san.
A warm human pattern is drawn through the backstage of the gorgeous entertainment district and the meal of an ordinary day. (translated from amazon.co.jp)
Kiyo Nozuki and Sumire Herai are childhood friends who share a common desire to become maikos—apprentice geishas. When they join a maiko house, Kiyo is deemed unfit to be a maiko and ends up employed as a live-in cook. (From MAL)
Chapters seem to be 12 pages each consistently. However, some chapters are heavy on text, and there’s the dialect on top of that.
How many chapters per week would you prefer?
One chapter per week.
Two chapters per week.
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I will give a little more weight to “one chapter per week”, regardless of which gets more votes, so please freely select which options you feel comfortable with, especially if you have difficulty with the dialect or are in other book clubs.
Do you already have a copy of volume 2?
Yes, I already have a copy of volume 2.
No, but I plan to buy digitally.
No, but I plan to buy from a physical store.
No, but I plan to buy a physical copy online.
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This series is not 試し読み-friendly! The preview for volume 2 only has five pages of content.
That means we must wait for everyone buying a physical copy to have it in hand unless some readers don’t mind catching up after their physical copies arrive.
Thanks for taking over @ChristopherFritz !
I’m going to read at my own pace but might join in the discussion. Especially hoping for @Belthazar and @TobiasW or anyone to post more pictures of the real life places they recognize from the manga (by the way do we have a thread for that? if we don’t, I feel like we should!)
I just noticed I was looking at November’s dates when I did the poll for December start dates… Well, just mentally shift those numbers back a few days and they’ll be accurate!
It actually makes me feel so sad when in the manga they go outside or just open their curtains, and the streets are full of people, tourists presumably, immediately surrounding them and taking pictures of them
Hah, that was exactly my thought. I mean, there’s something of a “oh, Sumire is working herself to death again” theme that occasionally pops up, and every now and then there’ll be chapters that directly follow on from each other, but I can’t said I’ve noticed much by way of arcs, exactly.
(by the way do we have a thread for that? if we don’t, I feel like we should!)
