Does it say which age group it is geared towards? Those kinds of books often indicate the school year on the cover (一年生 for example). That might give you a hint what kind of difficulties to expect.
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His spin off games (in particular the not translated 2nd part) were one of the main reasons I finally started seriously learning Japanese! 
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I can’t find anything on the cover but it has furigana I assume it’s probably for teenagers. I still do not know enough vocabulary to read a book without having to look up lots of words.
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I still need to get myself a 3DS so I can play that. Unless they’re planning to release it for iOS like they did the other games?
This series seems… a bit different to the other ５分で読める books…
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Day 71: August 10th
What did I read?: 君には届かない Vol 3
How much did I read?: 52 pages (2 chapters)
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 36 min
Omg bye, they’re so cute >< The way that Yamato is just sitting there looking at sleeping Kakeru when he’s supposed to be waking him up in the bonus 4-koma after Ch 13 is too much cute I was greatly amused by the whole playing video games and then panicking while trying to hide it from the teacher moment in the beginning of chapter 14. But I reaaaally hope poor sweet Yamato baby doesn’t get a cold, I don’t like the sound of that foreshadowing sneeze. They need to have their free day together D: Kakeru’s so close to starting The Talk D:
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Day 44
August 8
- 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (70% → 80%)
Day 45
August 9
- 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (80% → 84%)
Day 46
August 10
- 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (84% → 86%)
- 不可解なぼくのすべてを5 (18% → 100%)
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Day 72: August 11th
What did I read?: 君には届かない Vol 3
How much did I read?: 90 pages (3 chapters - finished the volume)
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 50 min
My heart 
Not gonna lie, I was about to smack a certain somebody for ruining everything 
But Yamato’s freaking notes in the little guidebook thing killed me, that was just about the sweetest thing and I’m so glad Kakeru recognized it too and ran after Yamato. Honestly, Hosaka is the unsung hero of this volume, he’s basically screaming “TALK TO EACH OTHER” at both of them lmao and I love him for it. Shoutout to Hosaka. Fujino can get the heck out of here 
But now what’s going to happen??? I have a bad feeling. Something is going to undo everything that was accomplished in this volume, I just know it -_-
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Day 47
August 11
- 授乳 (0% → 4%) (Sayaka Murata Book Club)
Day 48
August 12
- 地縛少年花子くん1 (32% → 43%)
- 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (86% → 100%), finished, more about my impressions in the extensive thread
I decided to drop Hanako. It was a hard decision, because I was already at half of the volume, but I got encouraged by @NicoleRauch dropping コーヒー and @sycamore post from some time ago:
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I predicted that starting to play 逆転裁判(ace attorney) would halt my progress in everything else, and I was correct! I’m still having so much fun though. I have ended up needing to use a guide at some points, but have found one thats in Japanese and finding that okay so far. I have now finished the tutorial case and first proper episode,and am now in the second. I have come across the famous ミツルギ/Miles Edgeworth and…yeah, I can see why people like him. He’s been a bit of a jerk so far but he certainly has a certain flair!
Nice! Yeah, there’s sooooo many potential things to read that really no reason to push on with things you don’t enjoy. Hope you now get to fill that reading time with something you like more 
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Day 73: August 12th
What did I read?: 日本のお城
How much did I read?: 2 pages (1 castle)
How long did it take me?: 30 min
Ugh, what a stressful day 
Didn’t have a lot of motivation to read this evening, but this still counts lol. Today I learned that Inuyama Castle was privately owned until 2004 - my first thought was “how cool would it be to own a freaking castle.” Like oh yeah, my family just owns this castle. No big deal.
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Drats, you’ve got me.
I’ve been thinking about this game every day since your original post.
I don’t quite understand why, I’d never reached to play this game in English, but now I am full of hype.
I watched some examples from the first case in Japanese.
Tonight I started going through the transcript to find common occurring unfamiliar Kanji words to make a mini Anki deck for myself.
Just bought the game and downloading it now…
Definitely this, sometimes in Mario I find myself just reaching to dismiss text before even trying to read it out of habit >.>
\o/
I think this will be my first attempt to consume material without furigana.
But at least looking at the first case it doesn’t seem ridiculous in terms of uncommon Kanji, seems to largely be lawyer / court terms.
Mildly related: Last night I ordered a (very cheap) Japanese copy of the first Prof. Layton game, I played it in English and loved it, will see how it in Japanese. It will at least have furigana, and in theory be familiar from when I played it in English (… before I then forgot it all presumably).
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Realised today that yesterday was my planned last day, oh well, today can be a bonus reading day.
So, the total is 63 consecutive days of reading! Now thatsalotta Japanese.
I’m going to try to keep it up, maybe not every day but several days a week at least, as, as well as learning Japanese, it’s been fun learning about random topics (and places/people… horses 
).
Perhaps I should start one of those study log things to keep track of everything I want done in a day… 
！頑張って！ to everyone still reading! 
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Ooh, I loved those games as a kid! Though I’ve only played a few of them.
I would be interested in playing one of them in Japanese as well but I figured the riddle parts might be a bit tricky
I’d be interested in hearing what you think once you’ve played it!
& I’ve had my eye on ace attorney for a while as well. 
Good to hear that it’s apparently not super difficult.
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I think Layton is even more friendly than Ace Attorney.
I played the Katrielle Layton game in Japanese (and first two regular Layton games in English) and it was quite easy, language-wise. My main problem was that I’m just not very good at the genre itself 
The descriptions aren’t that long, so that helps. It’s less text-heavy in general than Ace Attorney in my opinion.
But! I was extremely angry about one riddle which required you to count the Sun as the star. And jisho tricked me here!
I know it says “usually” but still 
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The day before yesterday I was too tired to read anything. Yesterday I just read 10 pages ofイモリ２０１. Today I read the remaining pages of イモリ２０１.
Unfortunately I had no time to read 5分で読める恐怖のラストの物語 maybe tomorrow.
Speaking of videogames I really want to play the second part of Legends of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel. I only have the Playstation 3 version of the first game, which is english only. But the second part I want to play in japanese. There is just a little problem, people claim it’s one of the hardest games to play in japanese.
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Day 74: August 13th
What did I read?: 地縛少年 花子くん Vol 1
How much did I read?: 28 pages (1 chapter - finished the volume)
How long did it take me?: 55 min
Felt like a fast read today. Quite a cliffhanger to end the volume on 
I feel like I probably won’t continue this series though…at least not right now. It’s not bad, but I don’t love it, and I feel like there’s other stuff I’d rather read. I wouldn’t rule out coming back to it at some point, though. I kind of feel like this story might be better as an anime than a manga tbh. …Looks like the anime’s on Hulu lol, maybe I’ll check it out at some point.
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