Oh it’s super helpful to hear this.
I stopped ~ at the end of chapter 2, I was able to follow most of it except for the police dialogue scenes which were all super dry and using particular language constructs. I felt like I was leaning very hard on my anime recollection.
The difficulty spread of past manga picks is interesting, at least based on learnnatively levels it looks like Death note is somewhat of an outlier.
Yotsuba 17
Girl’s last tour 21
Flying witch 19
Laid back camp 24
Fruits basket 24
Shimeji simulation 25
Haikyuu 26
Nichijou 24
Hanako-kun 24
Househusband 27
Death note 32
There might even be an upward trend in difficulty.
I wonder if this is because we are running low on beginner-friendly + interesting manga, or if the average skill of the club is rising so our rating of books is changing too. For death note it could also be that the difficulty varies between pages.