July 1 Update
Happy new month and halfway through 2021!
Today I finished up the second half of ナルト volume 3. Looked up everything I didn’t know, and it took a total of about 1.5 hours to finish it out. I think this is a good pace for manga/anime I’m super familiar with, and I will probably (try to) maintain it when reading ナルト (and maybe some other older manga). I now only have ホリミヤ and 僕のヒーローアカデミア on my bookshelf as manga I haven’t read (ignoring the huge pile of ハイキュー！！ since we’ll probably get to that during the book club), so instead of powering through entire volumes in two days, my time might be better spent actually reading 君の名は. I’ve been saying this for weeks now though, and I think it’s time to admit that I’ve been avoiding reading this book. My pride was extremely hurt the last time I tried this and struggled a bit too hard for my reading and tolerance levels. I’m not sure it’ll be much better this time, but I think it feels reasonable to set 2 pages for tomorrow as a goal.