# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀

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**Category:** Reading\
**Created:** [June 26, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-summer-2022/57528 "2022-06-26T11:53:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daisoujou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/daisoujou/32/818333_2.png) [@Daisoujou](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Daisoujou)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-summer-2022/57528/236 "2022-07-05T22:12:00Z")

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I did it! It’s over! Summer Pockets Reflection Blue vanquished! I [first began reading it](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/786) January 20th so it’s been slightly less time than I thought, but still, super long. In that time I’ve read it almost every single day, with only a few gaps for travelling or a few really stressful days. I’ve learned a ton and gotten so much more comfortable with reading while doing this. This has been my major project for reading and mining new words for so long, though I’ve read a few books casually on the side. It’s also the first VN I’ve finished (Ace Attorney nebulously counts in the genre but I bailed on case 5 when I started this).

 ![クリア](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/0/2/4/024e56b3ec4577e56e9098dfd6b79a42ce59596a.png)

I’m glad to have the space to do something else, but I liked it a lot. The character routes didn’t always have big emotional punch and were often semi-obvious, yet the journey there had likeable personalities and the main character ended up being a really good guy (setting aside a few… jokey choices the game gives you). Big fan of how much it kept pulling the cast of characters back when they weren’t in the spotlight to help out with other endeavors, and how the romance was sweet but ultimately not entirely the focus. There was usually other stuff going on. And of course the presentation is just gorgeous, plus although I got sick of a few songs because I read so much longer than someone would be expected to, the music was good overall.

A bit of the repetition in its structure grated on me slightly, no doubt exacerbated by my reading speed. And I’m a little mixed on Shiroha, the “main heroine.” She’s nice and chill, and likeable enough for that, but pretty plain as a character. Ultimately it felt like while they wrote interesting stories around her, she was almost entirely defined by those things that happened to her. Can’t help thinking some of the game’s stronger personalities would’ve been better to spend all that time around.

But overall, loveable cast of characters, and they turned the screws hard on the tearjerking stuff in the main route. It definitely is hitting me with those complicated feelings of being away from characters you spent so long with, you know? Very solid VN. I know it’s gotten some complaints for not being anything too out of the ordinary for the Key formula, but luckily I haven’t actually read all that many Key works so I could engage with it totally on its own. And while I wouldn’t say I learned Japanese for Summer Pockets, Reflection Blue seemingly not having any plans to release in English (though someone JUST put out a fan translation very recently) was yet another impetus, so I’ve accomplished one of those day 1 long term goals. That’s nice.

Next up is, I think, Flowers. Because of @AzusaChan 's answer I was actually thinking of first playing Sweet Pool since it’s relatively short and waiting until I was ready to dedicate more time to the whole series. Turns out that VN is really hard to get though, I think I’m going to have to look more into ways to pay on sites that require Japanese cards and go from there. Flowers is something I can actually get ready by tomorrow. May or may not break it up… we’ll see what happens when I get finished with part 1 😁

> **One final spoilery look at Summer Pockets art, for those who want it**
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> ![家族](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/1/1/8/118034da4ec199817cf2466c27079b54c3affa06.jpeg)

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