Welcome to 極主夫道 ・The Way of the Househusband, Volume 13!
Note: We read Volume 1 as the Beginner Book Club!, and are continuing to read as an offshoot book club.
CLUB START DATE: Saturday, January 6 2024 (2024-01-06T00:00:00Z)
If you want to take part, just buy the book and join in the discussion! We also recommend setting this thread to ‘watching’ so that you get notified when the discussion threads are posted.
Not sure if this is for you? Check out the Nomination Post and read the first chapter for free on Bookwalker - remember that your fellow book club members and the vocab sheet will be here to help you out though!
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Volume 13 Reading Schedule
| Week |
Start Date |
Chapter |
End Page |
Page Count |
| Wk 1 |
January 6 |
Chapters 109-110 |
30 |
28 |
| Wk 2 |
January 13 |
Chapters 111-112 |
60 |
30 |
| Wk 3 |
January 20 |
Chapters 113-114 |
92 |
32 |
| Wk 4 |
January 27 |
Chapters 115-116 |
122 |
30 |
| Wk 5 |
February 3 |
Chapter 117+おまけ |
end of Volume 13 |
37 |
Vocabulary List
Please read the editing guidelines before contributing!
Useful resources
Kansai-ben:
Yakuza slang/極道用語
Onomatopoeia
Contractions: Reference thread, more exhaustive list
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Welcome back to 極主夫道! I still need to buy the book (I read digital tho so no need to worry about shipping times), so I haven’t filled in the reading schedule page counts yet. But I assume it’s similar to the previous 12 volumes at ~16 pages/chapter and ~32 pages/week.
Are you planning to read Volume 13 with the book club?
- Yes
- Yes, but I might start late
- Not sure
- No
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ああよかった、まだ続いている！まだ１巻しか読んでいないので、「No」を選んだけど、会話は読むつもりだ。
Yay, you guys are still going with this series! I picked “No” because I’m still on Volume 1, but I plan to follow along with the discussions here.
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読書会へようこそ！！僕もまだ読んでいてよかった。なぜなら極主夫道は僕の一番の好きな漫画のひとつなんだ 
いつでも気軽に質問たり、会話に参加したりしてね
ところでお誕生日おめでとう！
Welcome to the club!! I’m so glad this club is still going too, it’s one of my favorite series Feel free to ask questions and join in on the discussion at any time.
Also, happy birthday!
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Added the vocab list and filled out the page count per week 
Seems like the omakes are longer than usual, so Week 5 has 37 pages
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Had a lovely holiday at the Japanese mall today. Picked up my copy of volume 13.
Finally finished volume 12 thanks to the excellent vocab sheet. Hopefully no more baseball matches anytime soon, though. Gave those chapters my best effort but had to move on with only partial comprehension.
I’m just going to go ahead and get started on the new stuff tonight
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Chapters 109 and 110
So sorry this is late! I’m at a linguistics conference rn and all of yesterday I KNEW that I was forgetting something but couldn’t remember what >_< But here is the Week 1 post now!
- I’m reading along
- I’ll catch up later
- I’ve read ahead, but I’m here for discussion
- I just like polls
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pg. 3: ほんで俺相手のリーダーにガッシーンパチキ入れて言うたんすよ
What does ガッシーン mean here? I found パチキ (Osaka slang for headbutt), but I’m not sure what ガッシーン adds here. Looking it up I’m finding stuff about Bomberman? And a mech toy?
But I get the general meaning I think (I told the other party’s leader I’d give him a Gasshiin headbutt)
yoo former wanikani leech spotted (荒らす on pg 5)
it’s cool to immediately understand it now and not confuse it for 荒れる
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pg 8: what does ったりめーよ mean?
context
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thanks for the help!!
ohh that makes sense! Looked into it and found ガシン meaning * crash * or * impact *, so this seems right
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Chapters 115 and 116
Week 4! Can’t believe we’re almost to the end of this volume already
- I’m reading along
- I’ll catch up later
- I’ve read ahead, but I’m here for discussion
- I just like polls
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Chapters 117+おまけ
Week 5! Just one chapter and the omake this week, although the omake are a bit longer than usual this volume.
The next volume will likely be out this summer (June/July).
- I’m reading along
- I’ll catch up later
- I’ve read ahead, but I’m here for discussion
- I just like polls
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