We read this as the Beginner Book Club! We’re now continuing the series beyond volume 1 as an offshoot - check out that Beginner Book Club thread to see what we’re currently reading as our main pick.
If you want to take part, just buy the book and join in the discussion! We also recommend setting this thread to ‘watching’ so that you get notified when the discussion threads are posted.
Not sure if this is for you? Check out the Nomination Post and read the first chapter for free on comic.pixiv - remember that your fellow book club members and the vocab sheet will be here to help you out though!
If you haven’t used Amazon JP before, note that you will need a separate account. CDJapan has (slow) economy shipping options available so is usually cheaper.
If you’re getting the series now, why not go with color? It’s pretty novel to have a whole series in color. Then again, I don’t really mind the black&white ink look. ^^ It’s classic and nice.
It looks readable based on my level. Maybe it’s because I’m getting used to Spy x Family or my memory of Death Note is less accurate than I thought (I remembered it being quite wordy in English).
People can also read it on the Japanese shounen jump plus website (the first three chapters are free, everything else costs points).
Not sure if I’ll join tho. The color version looks quite nice and the kanji font style looks good on it as well.
Death Note was one of the first mangas I bought in Japanese.
I had no chance of reading it of cause, I just had to have it cause it’s my favorite! <3
Been a few years, some full manga series and even a few books later, so should be way more doable now
Since it isn’t that long I hope we’ll read it all (even if only a few sticks around for the rest)
If not I’ll definitely finish it on my own =)
i got the manga in english for my son for xmas! i might check in on the thread occasionally but that’s gonna be too hard for me to read in japanese. enjoy it!
Well, I was just gonna buy the color digital version, and then noticed that “normal” (i.e., American) Amazon had a hard copy available for normal manga price with Prime shipping, so I went with that. I ain’t no spring chicken, however, so I’ll probably need to read some of those pages with a magnifying glass…
but I went and checked and there are no instructions in here for how to do it… so it remains a mystery to do correctly (from scratch )
The one thing that’s important is the formatting should be automatic when you insert a row the colors shift @ChristopherFritz also fixed that for our teasing master club…
(To be fair, you seem to have left the club after that first week, so given the number of book clubs you’re in and the number of books you’re reading independently, forgetting about it was only natural.)
Ah, yes, I remember now. (Thanks for the reminder!) Before my reply above, I put the title into a web image search, and didn’t see a familiar book cover, and thus thought, “I don’t know this one!”
I also didn’t find it on my Google Sheets list of spreadsheets when I looked, but that’s probably because it was just that long ago that it wasn’t on the list of recent-ish documents.
(That’s all on top of my life-long bad memory.)
It was way too difficult for me to follow along at my slow non-manga reading speed =(
And that was before I had access to Migaku Reader (alpha release) which makes the text-based material reading experience a bazillion times better.
I’m interested, and I’d love to buy the color Kindle version from Amazon, but I’m not sure how to do that. I have a VPN that allows me to appear to be from Japan, but Amazon won’t let me enter a credit card with a US billing address. Is there some workaround? Are the other color options easier to deal with?
