Aria the Masterpiece Home Thread (Beginner Book Club / Aria Book Club)

Masterpiece volume 4 just got released in English over here. The next volume will finally be content that’s never been released in English before.

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Well, this week’s chapter has a promising title!

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Taking a break, today :stuck_out_tongue:

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I guess it’s apt that the chapter called 休日 is half the length of a normal chapter.

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My remark was a reference to both of those things :wink:

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I was acknowledging your wit. :wink:

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It’s a breather before the 42-page monster that is next week’s chapter.

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Only 7 chapters left! :scream:

That means by the time I get my physical copies of the volumes (original release) out of storage, I’ll have completed discussion threads for the whole entire series to refer to and reply to in 2020 =D

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Halfway mark!

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It’s the final countdown tudududuuu

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tududududuuuuu

Edit: can’t reply any further, oh well.

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Just my luck, I’m only just finding out about this Book Club when it’s my favorite series, and I coincidentally already had the whole raw collection and was on Volume 2! I feel like I missed the whole thing xD

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Fortunately, all the various chapter threads are still available to read. And possibly post in, though we may need to request unlocking for a few of the oldest ones.

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They should all be unlocked at this point, and open for the next 10 years!

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I’ll be getting my copy of the manga out of storage probably in February, and then I’ll be reading through it with the threads to guide me along. If I have any questions that I can’t figure out on my own, I’ll definitely be posting them, adding tidbits of thread activity. (Or just commenting on chapters so everyone who read the chapter a year ago is left scrambling to remember it to know what I’m talking about.)

Edit: (Regarding @Valara’s avatar), I have the manga adaptation of「凪のあすから」on my “to consider” list for reading =D

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The penultimate chapter!

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Well, here we are. The last chapter.
I actually went ahead and read it already. I had a lot of funny quips planned for this post, but now I just feel empty inside.

I have to say, this has been the longest commitment I’ve had to any book or series, and I loved it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to stare in silence at a wall for a couple hours.

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I was overseas the last 2 weeks and pre-read those two chapters before I went so I didn’t have to lug the book with me. But I couldn’t bear to finish it.
Tomorrow.

In the mean time - sending lots of hugs to everyone. This series and everyone who has commented on it has been a beautiful thread running through some otherwise rather difficult times in my life, and I suspect I will miss it a lot.

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It feels so weird reading everyone reaching the end when it’s two and a half weeks before I expect to have my set of books out of storage. I might have to start reading sooner rather than later so I can post comments/questions in the appropriate threads starting in February…

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