22nd of April*, save the date people!
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oh, now i should actually finish the first volume
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2 hours ago, and already 25k retweets! Weāre not the only ones loving the manga 
*April ?
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In my defense, it hasnāt been long since I woke upā¦
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Ohhhhh
Maybe I will try to read the first volume then š©·
Hopefully the ABBC will chose read the second volume when we will be done with the granny-kid manga (donāt remember the name lol)
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With second volumes, they wonāt ever be picks ABBC, that wouldnāt be good for those that didnāt want to read the first one either. Instead there likely will be an offshoot club that goes through the volumes parallel to the ABBC, like how thereās one for for example Horimiya right now
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ohhhhh I see, makes sense!
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This is the best birthday present ever - for Ruri to no longer be in hiatus!
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Happy birthday 
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I got bamboozled into thinking ruri dragon was the next abbc and bought it without hesitation. Regardless I look forward into reading Granny Hinata with you all. Looking forward to it
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If you read Ruri Dragon with the threads from last year at a decent speed, youāll probably be ready in time of us starting volume 2 
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tbh thereās probably a bunch of vocab i will need to relearn for ruri but also maybe i wont bother lol
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if you got é¾ and č§ (ć¤ć®ļ¼down, then youāre all set 
with how much youāve read since that club ran I donāt think you will find toooo much difficulty on revisiting it
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Hi there ! Iād like to nominate a short story Iām reading at the moment, but Iām reading it in a bilingual edition who is more expansive than the short stories collection in which the text has been published.
My question being : in my nominating post, do I recommend the collection of short stories or the bilingual edition Iām currently reading ?
As a reader, I would say that I would care about which edition is easiest to find, both physical and online, so that most people can participate
My suggestion is to nominate the monolingual edition, but also mention the existence and provide links for the bilingual edition too. This way the people that want to participate can decide which edition they prefer to use.
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Thank you !
Also Iāve just realized that I wanted to ask the question in the BBC club 
We decided a few posts ago that this short story was more fitted for the BBC club.
I think I came here by the force of habit 
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Hereās my (probably) obvious light bulb moment for ABBC:
Itās OK to get frustrated with manga grammar. Just because itās the ABBC doesnāt mean that understanding grammar points from ~N5-N4 will mean a seamless breeze through.
I realized this last night while going through an older club title, Ruri Dragon. Itās a great title, but Iām struggling sometimes. The forum discussion is extremely helpful, although Iām still learning, so not everything clicks immediately.
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Absolutely.
Any native material will be incomprehensible to some degree no matter how much grammar and vocabulary youāve learned.
And the casual speech of manga only compounds that.
Always expect manga youāve never read before to be a challenge in deciphering rather than reading until youāve gained enough experience in reading similar manga.
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becoming comfortable with ambiguity or straight up just not knowing things is essential for reading in any language, but especially in your learner one!
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