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Hi everyone! I’m super excited to be running this club and reading Silver Spoon with everyone!
There’s plenty of time to figure out the schedule and all that, but here’s the chapter + page count:
Ch 1: 36 pgs
Ch 2: 20 pgs
Ch 3: 19 pgs
Ch 4: 23 pgs
Ch 5: 18 pgs
Ch 6: 22 pgs
Ch 7: 20 pgs
Ch 8: 17 pgs
omake: 6 pgs (handwritten font)
It’s been a while since I’ve been on the forums so I’m not sure what the standard pace has been for IMC. If we do a chapter a week I’m thinking we should break Ch 1 in half (~18 pgs each)
I’m really excited about this one, I’ve been really sold on it since you’ve made the nomination post!
And happy to see you around too @meagstudies
Yes it seems like a good idea to split the first chapter in two.
I’ve skimmed chapter 2, there’s some text and sometimes it’s dense but that’s far from being all the time (looking at you Bocchi), I would compare it maybe to Dungeon Meshi, so I think it’s fine to do one chapter per week from chapter 2. And the omake together with chapter 8, so that would be a 9 weeks schedule!
I’ve created a tenative schedule up at the top. If we split the first chapter and otherwise do one chapter a week, we’ll go for 9 weeks (May 17 is the last week).
Not sure where to split chapter 1. Skimming through, page 18 seems like a good stopping place storywise, but it leaves it a bit lopsided (12 pages vs 22). Any thoughts?
Also I was going to link to Tofugu’s article on the Hokkaido dialect in case we come across it, but it looks like it’s been deleted?? Does anyone know why?
The schedule looks good to me!
I have no idea why the page disappears, maybe the author left Tofugu and didn’t want the article to be visible anymore?
Here’s an archived version I was able to find
Found also this youtube video:
Good start, I already had a good laugh at the first page @meagstudies are you ready to kick off the club? If yes you can create the thread for Week 1 and announce in the IMC that it’s starting!
From now on we will be reading a chapter a week
