YAY!! I’m SO happy. Planning to finish the first volume today, and I’ll have a few weeks to try and finish vol 2 and 3 by the end of December 
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We’re on the last chapter of volume 3, so anyone who already read it and wants to join in on an overall discussion to this point, stop on by and have a look!
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Hey folks, two pieces of news, apparently a Frieren prequel light novel was published this year! I had no idea. Thanks @Jintor for the heads up highlighting it on the Bookwalker freebies thread!
And on Bookwalker Jintor discovered a promotion going on for roughly the next week where you can get it 95% off which comes out to 48 yen, practically free. Just know - whereas the manga is 100% furigana, in the light novel prequel there is not much furigana, perhaps on 2-3 words per page, and not necessarily the hardest words.
Here’s the link to Jintor’s post and some notes below on buying it if you’re interested so you don’t get caught out on mixing up their coupon/ campaign whatsits.
Summary
Tip: Use autotranslate on chrome to be able to easily read the Bookwalker warnings on not mixing promotions. In general, unless it’s your first purchase, don’t mix using coupons with the same purchases where you are expecting coin backs because the coupons cancel coinbacks.
Steps:
Follow the link above.
Copy the coupon
Put the light novel in your basket
On that page you can add the coupon and apply any coins you have
Thanks Jintor!
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It’s hard not to pick that up for 48 yen! Level 29 on Natively.
Looks like there are five short stories rather than one novel, with a story for four characters that we’ve met so far at the end of volume 3, and a pair of characters we haven’t met yet.
Not sure when will be the right time to read it. We are 100 chapters behind the latest manga volume - that’s two years at the current reading rate!
EDIT - also it looks like you have until Dec 26 if you want to take the deal.
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Hi all. I read volume 1 of Frieren with the book club, but fell behind in volume 2. Over the Christmas holidays I picked it back up and finished volume 2, really enjoying the way the story unfolded. Seeing as how volume 4 is about to begin, I ‘cheated’ and binged volume 3 in English. All read to rejoin this book club next week!
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Nice idea, that’s great to hear you’ll be back with us for volume 4!
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I hope this finds you all well - volume 4 is upon us! See you there:
Thanks as ever to the lovely folks who update the vocab spreadsheet and keep it organised and easy to use. I created a new one for this volume linked in the new thread.
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We’re currently on book 4 of Frieren in the book club. I’ve been going back and watching the anime episodes up to the point where we are currently in the book club (with EN subtitles). It was a great experience, and I’ve been craving more. I’m thinking about watching ahead, and then reading the book later. It might lessen the language learning I get from it, but the overall experience of the story might be better; I’m currently still a somewhat slow reader due to vocab look-ups and figuring out the sentences at my own pace. That takes me out of the story at times.
Curious for those who have watched the anime and read the manga. What order did you pick? Would you recommend anime first, or book first?
Obligatory warning: No spoilers please. 
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I’m curious what the more experienced people who have already gone through both in their entirety will say!
So far I’m waiting as a treat for after finishing all the manga… but there’s no right or wrong here, I see a lot of people doing it the other way, like you said to smooth the reading
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I read the manga first, because the anime wasn’t even a twinkle in someone’s eye at that point.
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I’ve stumbled over the anime first, and it was refreshing to watch a completely different style of anime than the usual. Then I did see a request here for the manga - after having ordered the manga from japan, so I decided to join and read along.
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Just spotted that Frieren the anime is coming to Netflix in March, in UK at least.
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For anyone who has read further ahead in the club - we’ve now reached the end of volume 4 so feel free to stop by the volume 4 thread with overall thoughts and discussion if you like!
Volume 5 will kick off on March 21st 
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Hello! I was excited to see the discussion thread pop up as I’ve been a big fan of Frieren and was recently trying to think of what would be a good manga to maybe start reading as a form of practice and reinforcement.
I prefer physical books (I went ahead and ordered the full set from CDJapan) and I also might be a bit slow (I’m only on Lv8 of WK currently and haven’t had formal Japanese study in, oh, about 20 years), so I’ll probably be following along with the earlier threads of discussion for a bit before I’ll be caught up enough to take place in current discuss. Still, thought I’d come say hi and share my attention. o/
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well fantastic! Hello and welcome to the club!
We have had several people catch up to the club and it’s always fun when that happens 
I hope you enjoy the earlier threads, and do comment, there are quite a few people following them. What a fun way to reactivate your Japanese
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Hello everyone - and we’re off with volume 5, complete with vocab sheet and thread ready for discussion. See you there!
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