In topic of looking up unknown kanji I personally really like the apps where you can write characters yourself (like Akebi - it’s the one I’m using and it has quite good recognition in my experience).
When I stumble upon an unknown kanji/word in a book I’m currently reading I just write it in that app real quick and it never took me more than a minute to find a kanji/word I was looking for.
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But some of us are dinosaurs and don’t have smartphones D:
okay, that really is just me
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Ooh, nice, thank you! Seems quite sensitive to correct stroke order, which I suck at, but I guess it’s just incentive to improve 
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That’s a good thing to learn 
I noticed that you can also tick “ignore stroke order” on the right, but I guess it will have a harder time recognizing input…
Yeah, I tried ticking that, but I think it fundamentally still struggles.
I’ll try using this for the rest of ゆるキャン 
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Um, I’m not reading this yet due to other life things, but it’s on the list of “beginner friendly” manga now.
But really I just dropped in to say that starting (September 28th in Japan), Nonnonbiyori is both on sale at about half price AND has a coin up campaign going on on Bookwalker if you’re interested in getting the rest of the volumes. With the coin ups, they almost pay for themselves.
Edit: Misunderstanding. This sale seems to go on for a few days.
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Just in the first few pages I saw two kanji I didn’t know: 薪, 逞.
I’m voting “just right”, but I’m not going to vote for it. I just don’t care about camping haha.
It’s not about camping, it’s about cute girls going camping.
And I swear, Nadeshiko is cuter than a manga character has any right to be. 
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I didn’t care for the anime anyway. 
(And I usually like those cute girl anime)
You would know them if you had been reading Shin sekai yori (薪) and Sword Art Online (逞しい) D: It’s obviously on you.
But other than that, the cute girls doing cute things shtick grew old real fast…
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They can be really fun from time to time, but a lot of it depends on the unique hook and characters of the particular series.
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In general I dislike cgdct, but I do like slice-of-life more generally, so sometimes it works. For me, this sat on the iyashikei side of the spectrum. It was my “make a mug of hot chocolate and curl up on the sofa to enjoy watching people eat hot pot” show of last winter
But anyway, I mostly nominated it because it didn’t have furigana but didn’t seem too difficult grammar/language-wise, so thought it would add some difficulty variety to the options (if not genre variety 
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I was mostly teasing @seanblue on the “I don’t care about camping” (and random kanji), but I can see that my message can sound colder than it was meant to be 
Anyway, I also really like slice of life, but I prefer works with “regular” people doing “regular” things (plus drama/scenario)
I know, I know, just taking the opportunity to plug it
what are your favourite slice-of-life manga? there are lots of shows I can’t watch legally, so I’m hoping to read them instead
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Sooo, I thought I’d check if the things I wanted to recommend were actually slice-of-life, and it turns out that nope, most of them are categorized as “romance”. So, hm, I guess I don’t understand what I’m talking about.
One series that made the cut, though, is Working, which I did enjoy. I also started reading it when I was at or below N4; the lack of furigana was hard for me, but I guess it would not bother people going through WK
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What are some of your other favorite manga, romance or otherwise?
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Ahahaha 
I don’t really know what things are classed as either. I’ll check out Working though, thanks ^^
and I second seanblue’s question
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Well, the ones I mentioned in the other thread: NANA, paradise kiss, gokinjo monogatari, sing yesterday for me. At the top of my head, I also like One piece (although I stopped reading it a long time ago), Othello, angel sanctuary, One punch man, magi, Nausicaä, Halleluya overdrive, nisekoi, BLAM, blue giant, inuyasha, samurai deeper kyo, ranma 1/2, gunnm (+ last order), 放課後保健室, Kimi ni todoke, Hayate no gotoku
And more, but let’s stop here. (Ah, and of course Working, Azumangadaiou and Yotsuba&)
And ARIA.
And 地の子
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Ooo, I’ve thought of a good “regular people doing regular things” manga: 北欧女子オーサが見つけた日本の不思議. Maybe I’ll write up a proper nomination when I get back from my holday.
Except… I inexplicably appear to have purchased volume 3 on my last trip to Japan instead of volume 1…
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