I got my copy today and man this thing is huge ! Also for some reason I expected it to be a light novel despite having seen the nomination post. I think I mixed something up there.
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Light novels would be too hard for Beginner Book Club anyway.
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It’s so chonky, right?!
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Is it thicker than Aria the Masterpiece?
It’s actually a very comparable thickness, but it’s much shorter, which makes it feel more… chonky 
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I’ve been trying to make sense of the collectors edition. I was looking to buy the set of books but I can only find them in the original version. How different is the collectors to the original? Would I be able to join in with the original? Thanks!
Also I can’t find the freebie colour edition! 
Hi there! The collectors edition is the equivalent of two of the original volumes, so if you’re buying the collectors editions, you only need volume 1. If you’re reading the original versions, then you need volumes 1 & 2.
The freebie colour version ( カラー版) of volume 1 (original version) can be found here.
Colour version of volume 2 (original version) can be found here.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks so much for your help! I wasn’t sneaky enough and apparently I’m not allowed to download it because I’m Australian - but it’s okay I ended up paying over the odds for the first 2 collectors edition volumes in colour! Apparently they’ll be here before the 20th of June 
I’m super keen!
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Ah, yeah. I added a Japanese address to my Amazon JP account to get around that (I’m in Sydney).
I’m also looking forward to getting started. I started watching the anime to get a feel for whether I’d like to read it and ended up binge watching all of the first season.
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I might have to muck around with my address and get that digital copy because my order has been delayed 
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I’m really excited to get the vocab list so I can start practicing it with Anki. Learning the vocab for reading materials has become a weird treat. 
I think it’s the immediate gratification of getting to apply my learning in an authentic way, as opposed to catching the occasional word I know out in the wild.
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It’s nice to see familiar faces from the ゆるキャン book club! Can’t wait for this one to get started. I won’t read ahead this time because I want to chill a bit, read slowly after the finals and college applications end, finally…
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Fellow fruitsbaskettos, my friend just told me about the app マンガPark where it looks like you can read a limited number of free Fruits Basket chapters per day. Sometimes the furigana can be hard to read and some users have reported that the app freezes, but it looks decent for a free app! Just don’t get carried away and use up all your free chapters reading other stuff 
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Thank you for sharing this!
With my copy having been delayed to Covid and problems with Amazon Japan I was concerned I wasn’t going to be able to join in to start with. I guess we all have our horror stories 
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You can also read the first chapter on comic.pixiv. That doesn’t let you get further than the first two weeks of course, but I’ve never had issues with it crashing or anything, so it might be a better place to start.
Just click the white 試し読み button.
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I feel really terrible suddenly asking this so close to the start date… but would anybody be willing to run this book club in my place?
My workload is… a bit intense at the moment, to say the least. Not only is my free time limited as a result, my motivation to do hobbies at a computer after working all day at a computer is not exactly sky-high either. I keep thinking it will ease up, but so far there’s no actual evidence of that.
I would love to read this with the group and will try my best, but it works best if the person running the club is actively participating, and I worry I won’t be able to do that. I will be prioritising the parallel Kiki club, as novels are my first priority this year and I took the decision to set that group up independently. I have a feeling that if I’m able to read a manga on the side, I’ll want to read something gentle to decompress which I’m already familiar with, rather than launching into a new series.
I thought it would be better to ask now, rather than bailing a few weeks in.
You would just need to create the weekly thread (you can copy the Laid-Back Camp ones as templates) and post about it here each week. Then there’s a bit of housekeeping to do at the end with polls for what people thought of the book, closing down the participation polls, etc. Maybe keep an eye on the vocab sheet (which I’ll add), that sort of thing.
- Happy to!
- Happy to if nobody else volunteers
- No thank you
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I also created a thread generator if the person who will take over is interested in using that…
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It takes like two minutes to create the thread and link everything together though, and your thread generator seemed to have a lot of dependencies…
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Oh, it’s totally optional to use it 
But I found it relieving that I was not required to remember which fields I had to change each time, like links to previous week, next week, title, reading information, link in home thread and whatnot. So for me it’s definitely worthwhile.
As for the dependencies, the only thing you need is node.js; it does not even require a single package to be installed via npm. I wouldn’t know how to make this more lightweight 
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Just got my copy in the mail! I was surprised that I managed to get it in less than a week, but I’m glad that it arrived in time nonetheless.
I could maybe try to help run the club, but I would have no idea what I’m doing since this is my first time joining a book club 
I’m sure it would be pretty straightfoward to pick up if I looked into it, and a positive tradeoff I could see is that it would help me become more dedicated to consistently staying active with the club
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