One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!
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So, I split the first chapter in half, because it’s longer than any two other chapters put together. Unfortunately, the most natural stopping point still leaves the longest reading of the book in the first week, but I figured we’re the Intermediate club, we can live with that. Also, there’s quite a few pages in there without dialogue.
I did pick up the series on Bookwalker recently and was thinking of reading it at some point so maybe a good excuse to get going on it
I did read a fair ways into it in English when the series was in publication. Kept up weekly with new chapters. The Japanese should be interesting given the amount of scientific explanations etc
Okay, the votes are in: we’ll be starting on May 9th, two weeks from now, and with a unanimous (albeit fairly small) vote in favour of a vocab sheet, I guess I’ll start working on that. Once I remember the process…
You could open an existing one, chose the option “Make a copy” in the File menu, then it’s just a bit of cleaning up needed: change the title, delete the data from the other club
I can’t promise to stay with it for the whole series but yeah, I’ll try reading with the club. I remember a little of the early chapters being about the use of SCIENCE! To improve their lives.
