I’m voting for silent witch so @simias will have to buy an anime body pillow
Although I really want to read 夜警, but it has no chance of winning.
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I’m not voting for Silent Witch because I already bought it and it’s the one I’m most likely to read… but I don’t particularly want to join a book club in October. 
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Oh no! I’m not interested in any of the top picks. Maybe I’ll sit one out. 
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I saw that was another book by 赤川 次郎. I tried out the preview for あなたも殺人犯になれる back in January and couldn’t really get through it at the time but I’ve heard his books are good.
It’s on my TBR… so I would’ve totally joined~ but alas. I’ll read it on my own hehe.
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I see you voted for きらきらひかる - if it interests you we had an informal club for that over on Natively - きらきらひかる (Profoundly Weird Book Club) - Book Clubs - Natively Forums
The thread has gone quiet since we all finished it, but if you post people who have read it (like myself) will probably respond!
I really enjoyed the book and think more people should read it
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Thanks! Sadly the ebook is not available for Kindle, it seems. But maybe I’ll vote for it next round, assuming it doesn’t win this one. If the club does it, I’d go for the paperback.
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I started to read it a while ago, and it doesn’t look like it’s Oz related…
It’s the nickname for the protag’s grandmother who dies at the start of the book (not really a spoiler because you learn about it in the first 5 pages or so).
You’re so strong! 
I actually have negative interest in stories for teenagers (just read one with the Onda Riku book club over at Natively, and luckily the writing was very good, but the contents was - dunno - too shallow, maybe? 
) so if it wins I’ll be happy to sit it out (and read other stuff in the meantime - there is such an explosion of book clubs recently)… 
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I’m dead at how the top two book are so close in the poll yet could not seem more different in content LOL. It’s also surprising to me that a few people voted for both given how different they seem. Good for y’all with broad tastes! Same with Nicole I’ll be sitting out if Silent Witch wins. Reading in Japanese is still hard enough for me that I can’t read anything that I’m not really interested in.
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I’m excited to join the voting for the first time (if you don’t count last time where I only voted for 1 book that was the easiest one I was interested in and was already assured of not winning at the time I voted…)
I’m not sure if I can keep up with IBC pace yet, but if not, I’ll just make up my own primer pace that gradually ramps up. Anyway, I just thought I’d suggest that if anyone else is on the fence about joining for the first time.
Any club can be a primer club if you read slower
now just waiting to see how this vote turns out 
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I find it interesting to discover corners of Japanese culture I didn’t even know existed. I’m willing to sample that stuff. I’m a very pretentious reader usually, my usual fare is thick books in Russian about depressed aristocrats. Or thick books in French about depressed nobles. Or thick books in English about depressed tennis players.
I certainly hope that Silent Witch features at least one chapter-long dissertation about systems of governance.
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Inside some of us, there are two wolves…
On one hand, I like thoughtfully written stories about complex people and complex topics. On the other hand, socially awkward witches sound fun. It’s hard to pick
Admittedly the cover for the silent witch is a little off-putting but I’m also willing to give it a chance. For witches.
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Wasn’t planning to read Silent Witch, but all this talk of its weeby cover made me realise I could read it for the ‘offputting cover’ square in the Natively bingo
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What’s wrong with the cover? I’m not saying it’s great, but I don’t see anything about it that makes it offputting.
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Ignoring the weeb factor it’s just atrocious graphic design. You have 4 busy layers of stuff stacked on top of one another with little contrast, there are random seals floating and you don’t really get what they’re supposed to evoke, the jarring particle/flare effect clearly superimposed on top of it all (I guess the designer thought there wasn’t enough going on). Look at it from a distance, it just looks like a purple splotch with a face in the middle of it. The bottom half is a mess of fabric and I can’t even tell what posture the character is supposed to be in. And of course you have the anime sameface-noseless-with-eyes-clipping-through-the-hair but that’s just unavoidable at this point.
The only thing I’m saving from this is the cat. It’s cute. It’s amusing that modern generic anime artists put more personality in animals and other non-human characters than their protagonists because they have to use one of the 4 mandated archetypes of generic teen waifu/twink by law.
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The cover design is indeed busy. I don’t hate it, but because it’s so full of so many elements, it kinda doesn’t stand out because my brain can’t focus. But the first thing that caught my attention was her finger. She should see a doctor.
I can’t unsee it.
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I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who was confused by that whole “offputting cover” talk. I was really close to asking, but then figured it was just distaste for anime girls on non-manga book covers or something weird like that.
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I agree that the cover is too busy, but that’s my only problem with it haha
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すずめの戸締まり is a “girl anime cover” done well IMO. It’s also a bit busy for my taste but the composition is vastly better and a lot more intriguing.
The best cover of this selection is objectively 穴 however.
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Hard agree from me. I also really like the English cover of that book I’ve seen (although I still prefer the Japanese cover). I bought the English copy last year from my local bookstore and that was the main reason I didn’t vote for it here haha.
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