Summary post
Day 12: September 12
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!
How much did I read?: 5 pages
How long did it take me?: 52 min (new record?)
Aaaand we’re back 
And Haru’s back, too, actually, haha, from being out sick. Being healed by the water 
I love that he just skipped school and only came to swim practice, because school was not healing (the book legit said that, I didn’t even make that up 
I cannot with this boy)
Rin being all, “Haru, come on, we have relay practice,” and Haru being like “…wtf are you talking about, relay practice” is so funny to me. Um, Haru, I think you’re about to get a surprise that you’re not gonna like But we finally get a version of Haru’s iconic line: フリーしか泳がない (tiny fangirl noises)
I think my favorite word of today is じゃまくさい - troublesome; pain in the butt. Idk why but this made me laugh out loud when I looked it up, Haru thinking Makoto’s concern is a pain in the butt just kills me. he’s your friend and he loves you, be nice 
Some other good words from today
- 苛立つ (いらだつ) - to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one’s patience (variations of this word seem to be coming up a lot lol)
- 荒げる (あらげる) - to roughen (e.g. one’s attitude); to raise (one’s voice)
- 言わんばかり (いわんばかり) - as if to say; as much as to say; as though (omg @Axazel, same word
this kind of feels like a grammar point, so I want to try and remember it. …god knows I’m never going to learn grammar any other way)
- すれ違う (すれちがう) - to pass (by) each other; to brush past (can also mean to be at odds; to clash; to be in conflict)
- 思いもよらない (おもいもよらない) - unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable
- 掻き消える (かききえる) - to disappear; to vanish into thin air
- 躊躇う (ためらう) - to hesitate; to waver (what even are these kanji, omg, I would hesitate too if these showed up out of nowhere it was written in kana in the book though lol)
- まし - better; preferable; less objectionable; least-worst
- 心配を掛ける (しんぱいをかける) - to cause someone to worry
(I feel like at some point I’m going to accidentally repeat some word, because sometimes I have to see a word like 5 times before I remember having seen it ever, but I don’t think any of these are repeats)
Why do I keep accidentally making everyone want to read cute manga in these challenges
It’s 'cause I like cute manga, they’re cute D:<
Welcome and good luck! 
Day 3 (9月 11日) 
was super fun, as always… but we were only four members this time around, and we didn’t distribute the lines all that well… read chapters 33-34, took us almost 2h but we do translation as well, and… we deviate a looot 
Will try to read a bit more today…
* big virtual hugs *
Day 12
Am… Am I speeding up?!
(unrelated, but I also have been enjoying your reviews each day!!)