Turns out I misunderstood. They’ll all be meeting up in Sweden for a wedding of a common friend of theirs, so I won’t have to bumble my way through expressions of gratitude in Japanese.
Oh no. So sad. 
I was really looking forward to having that conversation while going
I just finished case 3 of 5. This should be the longest case of the game, so maybe the final two will go a little bit faster. That would be nice. 
I’m really trying not to be too harsh on myself for being slow, since I’m reading something well above my grammar level, while trying to catch up in my knowledge on the side. Slowly catching up on the side. 
There is a world of difference in the speed and ease of understanding what I read, if I think back to when I started the game a million years ago. As always, I tend to focus almost solely on badgering myself about all the things I don’t know, rather than look at the progress I’ve made, so I’m trying to appreciate the big difference that the last six or so months have made.
Still having fun. Still appreciating the exposure a lot. Still 
Japanese - a lot.
Im a little over halfway though this one right now. Be prepared for it to be pretty slow at the start. It definitely picks up, but I found the beginning quite boring.
Does someone know if there’s a limit on the time span or amount of times you can edit your own posts?
I’ve been keeping somewhat of a log on when I start and finish books in an older post here, and today I found I can’t edit it. 
Hmm~ How old is that post?
I found something on the Discourse meta about the edit option disappearing after two months?
Looking back at the first post I made here in February, I do seem to be unable to edit in any way.
There is a thread talking about how mods can edit the setting, so if it’s important, and the mods don’t see a downside, a mod can be pinged with the request to change it.
I think the default is 30 days, but I have no idea if WaniKani changed that setting.
Well, I’m finally done with the 新世界より series. I’m not sure it’s the longest thing I have read in Japanese (1Q84 would be a close contender) but it sure felt like it.
The third book is at the same time my favorite and least favorite in the series.
Things keep happening and it’s hard to stop reading although the part in Tokyo felt kinda long and very reminiscent of the parts where the main characters are running away from other バケネズミ, like the 土蜘蛛 in the first volume or 奇狼丸 in the second one… At the same time, this part was full of gore and properly terrifying at times (well, I might be just weak to that kind of things though). The scene in the hospital in particular, and the whole war in general… Plus the idea of what would happen to the babies kidnapped by 野狐丸…
Anyway, I definitely recommend the series overall, with the caveat it’s a pretty hard read, both from the language point of view and from the content point of view.
Also, I have now reached 15 books read this year, reaching my stretch goal. I guess I have to stretch further to 24…
That means you have time to read 魔法少女育成計画 with me. 
Congrats on finishing 新世界より. How many more years of studying and reading do I need before I can try it? 
I’m planning to, yes.
Well, there are some advanced grammar point (as in, they are classified as N1), but as far as I can tell, the sentences were always straightforward and relatively easy to understand (I’m probably not the best judge of that, though).
The main problem is the use of rare kanji with no furigana (I think it’s mostly 準一級 from the kanken). Without learning a fair amount beyond what WK teaches, looking up words can be fairly painful. And there are lots of words including crazy buddhist terms and fake species names from the future. Floflo can deal with most of that (the crazy species name have furigana anyway), but only the first volume is in there.
I did use Floflo for the first volume by the way, and it tremendously helped, even at frequency 3. It also made the next two volumes a lot less painful.
So, actually, you can just check freq 3 on floflo for the first volume. Whenever that number stops looking scary is probably the right time
My brain still tries to check out when I see a long string of kanji, even if the meaning is very clear and straightforward. 
13 back-to-back kanji is my personal record so far.
西鳳民国大統領暗殺未遂事件
西鳳民国「せいほうみんごく」is a made-up country in the game.
I definitely do that sometimes too, especially if there’s a word I haven’t seen much mixed in
And that’s a large-ish amount of Kanji in a row! Doesn’t beat my 20-something I posted about earlier in this thread yet though 
It was fortunate this was an easy one, especially with 4 of the kanji just being a country name.
True!
Not sure I want to beat your record, though. >> 20 is just… come on!
I wouldn’t want to puzzle with a string that long if the meaning was actually unclear to me.
If I saw that many kanji in a row I’d start to wonder if I’d stumbled into some Chinese.
This is basically what starting up the Japanese version of Dies Irae(it’s a visual novel that reaaally likes using uncommon Kanji And vocab) felt like when I first did it
Maybe I should give it another try sometime …in the distant future
I’m currently reading the second book of the ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 series and came across a massive breach in the 4th wall :p.
When talking about the events of the first book, the protagonist says
そのことをまともに語ると、一冊の本になってしまいそうだ。
Well, you’re right about that.
Cheeky.
Reminds me of the anime version of 斉木楠雄のΨ難.
While working on a school project, they get into what they think are the weirdest / most messed up Japanese folk stories. Two of them have a go, but when it cuts to the third kid saying he has one too, the voice over cuts in:
「窪谷須君の話は原作漫画でお楽しみください」
Finished the first chapter of ひぐらしのなく頃に
only 7 more to go
Only 200 hours to go! 
Just finished ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 2, and it was a very nice read!
Very relaxing compared to other things I’ve been reading recently too.
It’s also nice to have protagonists closer to my age (even though they are still quite younger) instead of teenagers.
In terms of content, I was sucker-punched by the part on “a clockwork orange”.
For once, the mystery revolved around a book I have read already! Yay, I have a shot at guessing the thing, I thought naively.
Turns out the twist comes from the fact that, when that book got published in the US, publishers didn’t like the end and changed it!! The author reluctantly agreed to that due to external pressures. When the movie adaptation by Stanley Kubrick, which is obviously based on that version, became a hit, translations abroad basically only used the US version.
Apparently, recent translations in Japan are now based on the complete version. The fact that one character ignored the existence of that true ending meant that they couldn’t have read a new edition as they pretend they did. I also missed it, since the version I read was also incomplete
Anyway, I also love the way the interactions between the two main characters are evolving. First book, she said she doesn’t trust him (but they somehow get back on friendlier terms in the epilogue); second book, she says that she doesn’t want to ever get married (which implies no relationship either), then in the epilogue she basically accepts to go on a date. Well, one step back and two forward? Still, I wonder where this will go.
Finally, this series is officially characterized as a light novel, but I felt the quality was much higher than other light novels I have read. I will definitely keep reading this series.
I’m also thinking to recommend it to the intermediate book club, but at the same time, I’m not planning to re-read the first volume Still, recommended to anyone out there reading this.
Took me from February 19 until September 6th to play cases 1-3 (admittedly, while skipping a lot of days of reading ).
Case 4 took me 19 days. Gee, it’s almost like knowing some grammar and actually reading 5-7 days a week gets you progress or something. Who knew?
Last case! And then I can finally say I read blundered my way through a native Japanese reading endeavour, even if it was with a shameful amount of holes where I had no real clue what was being said. You know, 多読 - getting exposure and just ploughing through. That’s what I’m telling myself, at least. 