That’s my bad - I’m away this week until Friday, so I’ll post the poll for a week from Friday.
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Book 40 Poll
Closes August 2nd, 23:59 UTC
- 魔男のイチ / Ichi the Witch (L25 — Manga)
- よふかしのうた / Call of the Night (L23 — Manga)
- ひらやすみ / Hirayasumi (L23 — Manga)
- Omori (L21 — Manga)
- きみと雨上がりを / After the Rain With You / (L?? — Web Novel)
- 午后のあくび / Afternoon Yawning (L22 — Manga)
- 骨ドラゴンのマナ娘 1 / The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter (L25 — Manga)
- かえるくん、東京を救う / Super Frog saves Tokyo (L21?? — Short Story)
- ヤマノススメ / Encouragement of Climb (L24 — Manga)
- 雪女 / Yuki-onna (L25 — Short Story)
- スキップとローファー / Skip and Loafer (L24 — Manga)
- スローループ / Slow Loop (L28 — Manga)
- マグメル深海水族館 / Deep Sea Aquarium MagMell (L24 — Manga)
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Alrighty! In an attempt to campaign for Yama no Susume, here’s a comparison series of the characters visiting Doai Station and Tanigawa-dake, and my own trip there back in 2023. The episode in question comes from near the end of the anime’s second season (number 21, to be precise), so we definitely won’t be covering it in the first volume of the manga, but I thought it was fun all the same. As with my Takao-san photos, I made no attempt to line up my photos to match the anime (and didn’t take any screenshots for comparison anyway), so these are just the nearest approximations from the photos I just happened to take. Though I’m mildly annoyed at myself for not photographing some of the things.
Teh photos
The trip started at Doai Station, referred to by signage as 日本一のモグラ駅, and… I don’t even know how to render that in English. Japan’s moliest station? Anyway, the northbound platforms were constructed in a tunnel some seventy metres underground.
To reach the surface, you need to climb a flight of four hundred and eighty-six steps.
The platform has a waiting room, the walls of which were absolutely plastered with messages from visitors… when I was there, in any case - images and vlogs posted online by other people since show that it’s been cleaned out. Anyway, point is, I found these images, shown in the second photo, of productions which also visited Doai (the image on the left is from a movie called Climber’s High, while the one on the right is an anime called Tetsuko no Tabi).
At the top of the huge flight of stairs, there’s a covered corridor leading the rest of the way to the station building… and more stairs.
In the station building itself, I neglected to take a centred picture of the inner doors, but I did take one of the voucher machine, which you can see on the right-hand edge of the anime screenshot. (The characters also stop here to fill out a climbing registration form in case of emergencies from the stand provided, but while I took an image of said stand on my visit, it doesn’t at all resemble the one from the anime, so I’ve omitted both images.)
Then they head outside and walk to the Tanigawa-dake ropeway station. I visited this area in early April, so snow still lies all over the ground, but in the anime they visit in the middle of summer, so it’s a fair bit greener.
Then I arrived at the ropeway station.
I wanted to include some images here from the ascent, but the perspex windows were so badly scratched up that all my photos are pretty terrible, so I’m gonna skip straight to the summit. Unfortunately, I didn’t take an image of the ropeway station exit at the top, but I do remember stepping straight from the doorway onto snow, no stairs down - that’s how deep the snow was. I have, however, included the photo I took of the View Terrace Tenjin building while standing by the ropeway station, so there’s that at least.
After this point, the anime characters continued onto the chairlift in preparation for climbing the mountain, but I stopped at the View Terrace for lunch, and headed back down to Doai afterwards, so this is where we part ways.
And, for Slow Loop…
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Do you wonder what is at the address written on a flower petal ?
Would you go to a restaurant where all waiters are weird mute bunnies ?
What to do when a tiny rain cloud follows you around ?
To answer these questions, you may now vote for afternoon yawnings !
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I didn’t even plan to vote at all. Look what you did.
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Love the campaigning. I’m already gunning for ヤマノススメ hard but still got extra psyched seeing the photos. But I did just switch a vote to Afternoon Yawnings because that looks adorable.
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I’ll keep campaigning at each vote until I teased every single story in the book.
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I won’t do it in the spirit of the poll, but the temptation to remove my vote from the top two and incite a three way tie is large (I really want to read all three of these)
plus you never know who lurks waiting to make a move 
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I think that’s perfectly fine if you kind of want to read Afternoon Yawning a little more than the other two. If you just want a three-way tie for the sake of a three-way tie… not so much 
That being said, do we not have the “oldest nominations wins by default” tie breaker here yet?
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Since we changed the rules to “oldest nomination wins ties”, adding Afternoon Yawning to the list of candidates sharing first position wouldn’t change the outcome. 
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Ope didn’t know this was in the rules! Hmmmmm much to ponder haha
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Please don’t cause a tie for the sake of causing a tie. It wastes everyone’s time repolling and reduces the lead time for people ordering physical books.
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Can’t we just use the oldest nomination wins rule? 
That way a tie doesn’t need to waste anyone’s time.
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I don’t remember if we officially brought the “oldest nomination wins ties” rule here, but I think we should just say we did for simplicity. 
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If that rule change is not here yet, it absolutely should be. Nobody should have to be afraid of creating a tie, and nobody should be able to waste people’s time by purposefully creating one.
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Yeah I left my original comment from the knowledge of a tie I saw in a different club (maybe abbc?) that ended in those books all being read in succession and didn’t see any specific rules listed here. Wasn’t gonna do it anyway and was mostly making a joke, but wasting time was certainly not the goal. I agree though, it would be nice for us to make a clear cut rule for this though if it doesn’t exist.
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In an effort to start regular Japanese reading again I decided to vote this round and ended up causing a tie, which I now feel slightly guilty about, so I’m also in support of the older nomination winning.
Also look at Super Frog in fourth, someday he’ll save Tokyo!
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Ack! I wasn’t ready for that one to win yet! 
This throws all my plans into disarray! Alright… Back to the drawing board …
(Just being silly, everyone should vote according to their heart!)
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I’m pretty sure that I’m in too many book clubs already, but my vote would be for ヤマノススメ (since I got the first however many free a while back). But I don’t want to cause a 3 way tie for a book I’m not likely to read so I’ll abstain. Unless the poll looks different in a few days 
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You should vote for it. Don’t fret about what other votes are there already - vote for what you want to read, not for what you think everyone else might want to read.
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