🚬 蟲師 Mushishi Book Club Week 1 🕸

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Week 1

Start Date: May 31
Next Part: Week 2

Week Start Date Chapter End Page Page Count
Week 1 May 31 Chapter 1 緑の座 (part 1) 29 27

This week and next week will be the first chapter and then after that will be a new chapter once a week.

Vocabulary

Discussion Guidelines

Everybody should feel free to post and ask questions–it’s what makes book clubs fun! But please do not post until you are familiar with Spoiler Courtesy!

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  1. Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  2. Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  3. Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
Instructions for Spoiler Tags

Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).

Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:

Example

This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.

The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.

This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.

Posting Advice
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Participation

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My apologies for posting this thread late. To be honest, I forgot that we use weekly threads. I am also sorry because I won’t be able to do a renshuu.org vocab list like I had hoped. I am way busier than I expected to be. Thank you in advance.

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Ooof ouch owie that first page.

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Yah, quite. I dusted off Mokuro so I could generate us a vocab list, and haha that first page. I ran a couple of the phrases through Google so I could decipher what was going on, and every single result was “hey, I know this, that’s from the first page of Mushishi”.

I’ve now done the vocab for the first handful of pages, anyway. :slightly_smiling_face:

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The rest of this week’s reading is not nearly as difficult, thankfully, although still a lot of rather abstract dialogue.

I like the art though.

So it’s basically Ghostbusters?

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Not really but I think it’ll be clearer with later chapters

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I mean, to be fair, people do generally call Ginko when there’s something strange in their neighbourhood…

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lol, very true

I was thinking about how the ghostbusters’ typical actions are very different from Ginko’s

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I think of it as the heart of Shinto

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Initially I thought that 蟲師 was a person’s name and since there was talk of 遺言 and investigation I thought that maybe ギンコさん was 銀行さん (yeah it would be ギンコー but there are ellipses where the ー would be) and this was a manga about a wandering lawyer trying to settle complicated estates for the Mushishi Bank.

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I like the art and the mood and the story so far! Tough with the handwriting though.

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At least the bookwalker scans are pretty decent for this one as far as I can tell.

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Week 2 is up!

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