[Early Post] カードキャプターさくら・Card Captor Sakura Book Club 🌸 Week 3

I’m going to be away this weekend, so posting this week’s thread early. Don’t panic if you’re still on week 2, you still have 3 more days before the official schedule for this week! And thanks to whoever filled out the week 3 vocab sheet already.

Welcome to the (early) third week of the カードキャプターさくら :cherry_blossom: Card Captor Sakura Book Club!

Week 3 21st September 2024
Start Page 21
End page 27
End phrase わたしの「クロウカード」(さが)しの日々(ひび)(はじ)まったの
Pages 7
Last Week Week 2
Next week Week 4
Home Thread カードキャプターさくら
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Vocabulary

See also Manga Kotoba

Please read the guidelines on the first page before adding any words.

Discussion Guidelines

Everybody should feel free to post and ask questions–it’s what makes book clubs fun! But please do not post until you are familiar with Spoiler Courtesy!

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  1. Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  2. Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  3. Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
  4. How was Kero’s Osaka-ben this week?
  5. Do you like any of the newly introduced characters?
Instructions for Spoiler Tags

Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).

Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:

Example

This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.

The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.

This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.

Posting Advice
  • When asking for help, please mention the page number, and check before posting that your question hasn’t already been asked. As the threads get longer, it becomes more convenient to use the Search function, which is located in the upper right corner of the forum. It is the magnifying glass which is near your profile picture! The best way to search is usually to type part of the sentence you are confused about, and select “in this topic”. This will show you all posts within the current thread which has that string of text.

  • Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these book clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

  • For the Bookwalker version of this manga, the page numbers in the panels and the page number in the UI are always 2 apart. If you subtract 2 from the UI page number, this will give you the accurate page number!

Proper Nouns

Name Reading Image Notes
木之本桜 きのもと さくら image Main character
大道寺知世 だいどうじ ともよ image Sakura’s cousin and best friend
木之本桃矢 きのもと とうや image Sakura’s Older Brother
月城雪兎 つきしろ ゆきと image Sakura’s Older Brother’s Best Friend
ケルベロス
ケロ
ケルベロス image Sakura’s companion

Discussion Questions

  1. What sentence/passage gave you the most difficulty? Feel free to request some help, or if you figured it out on your own break it down for the rest of us!
  2. What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?
  3. Was there any passage that you found particularly intriguing? Did it resonate with you (either positively or negatively)? Was it surprising? Offer any insight or new perspective? Was it just beautifully written?

Participation

Will you be reading along with us this week?

  • I’m reading along
  • I have finished this part before the thread was posted
  • I’m still reading the book but I haven’t reached this part yet
  • I’m reading this book after the club has finished
  • I’m no longer reading the book
0 voters

If you’ve already read this book but are still going to join the discussion, please select “I have finished this part.”

Don’t forget to set this thread to Watching in order to stay abreast of discussion!

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Useful grammar points

  • past-Verb ばかり (N4) - ばかり is one of those words with many meanings, but this one following a verb in the past tense is to indicate something has just happened.
  • たった (N2) - Only/Merely/Just - again this maps to a few concepts in English, see the article for more
  • Name という Noun (N3) - The noun that is called name
  • あんな (N4) - “That kind of” (part of a collection with こんな、そんな、どんな)

Dialect Guide

Nothing new this week!

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Title says week 2 :slight_smile:

It just had to be correct by saturday :stuck_out_tongue:

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Alright let’s go ! Already read a few pages, without the vocab sheet. I’ll need to read more properly.