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時をかける少女

Summary

English(from goodreads):
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Kazuko Yoshiyama, a third-year middle school student who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel after an unfortunate accident in a school science lab. The novel is the basis for several television and film adaptations, including an acclaimed anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda.

Japanese(from amazon):
だれもいないはずの理科実験室でガラスの割れる音がした。壊れた試験管の液体からただようあまい香り。それを嗅いだとき、和子は意識を失い、床にたおれてしまった。そして、時間と記憶をめぐる奇妙な事件がつぎつぎに起こりはじめた。時をこえて読みつがれる永遠のベストセラー「時をかける少女」他、短編「時の女神」「姉弟」「きつね」を収録。

Availability

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.jp/時をかける少女-角川つばさ文庫-筒井-康隆/dp/4046310073/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537811093&sr=1-4&keywords=時をかける少女
Ebook: 無料まんが・試し読みが豊富!電子書籍をお得に買うならebookjapan

Personal Opinion

It’s a book quite a few people probably have heard of already and I personally want to read it, so I’m hoping more people will too(yes, I know this is nearly the same thing I wrote for porepore nikki)

Pros and Cons for the Book Club

Pros

  • Tsubasa Bunko edition has lots of furigana
  • Fairly short for being an actual book(about 160 pages)
  • At least one other person seems to want to read this
  • Has a vocab list on floflo.moe

Cons

  • Is an actual book, so has much more text than most manga
  • Likely to take longer to read, and may require larger vocab knowledge

Pictures

First Three Pages of Chapter One

These pages are also in the amazon preview, in case you can’t read the text.




Additional Pages

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Difficulty Poll

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