@Mushling-Dono Not sure if you saw, but the Fall challenge is now up. The link is a few posts up or right here.
I wanted to be sure you saw it. 
Starting with a fresh challenge can be incredibly powerful. ^^
Again, I meant to play AC earlier in the day, but then I didn’t end up doing so until after 10. I missed the rug-seller :( Well, they mighta still been there, since they showed up for the ラジオ体操, but I didn’t see them walking around, although tbf I only stayed on one corner of the island. I was also tired yesterday, so I didn’t end up doing much of anything, hence my not posting until today.
Ah, and I found a note in my phone from one day when I was making donations that I forgot to post. I learned that, while not spelled 遠藤, エンドウ are green peas, so yeah, everyone in おうちでごはん is named after food.
Other than that, I just read vol 28 of HQ. And, yay, thanks to the furigana, I learned that the 来 in 来よった is read き! Saw that a few times in 極主夫道 the other day and was never sure. Dunno if there’s any difference in nuance between くる and きよる though, because I saw both.
Some vocab of note:
魑魅魍魎 (ちみもうりょう) [四字熟語, noun] evil spirits of rivers and mountains. I hate how literally every kanji in that compound looks the same.
粒揃い (つぶぞろい) [noun, の-adj.] uniform excellence
神出鬼没 (しんしゅつきぼつ) [四字熟語, noun, の-adj.] appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
奇才 (きさい) [noun] rare genius
Still waiting for my 相性 page to stop showing me impossible levels of compatibility, but lol me reading a bunch of 極主夫道 brought down my 相性 with my top-matched user, and we’re now below 300%. Why did me reading gksfd bring it down though and not them reading Yuukoku no Moriarty? Because I’m p sure our only thing in common is reading a bunch of HQ right now.
The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220928 
吾輩は狸である progress: 36.77% 
Only time for a mini-read today.
Japanese found within the acorns
Meowords
暫時「ざんじ」ー Short while
Forms
翳 ＝ 陰「かげ」(shadow)
Had intended this to be a direct reply to @enbyboiwonder, but I suspect the quoting broke that somehow. 
If you are interested
Two versions of よる (which attaches to ます stem of words, hence the き reading for 来):
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Progressive form, equivalent to the ている in standard Japanese; think this doesn’t apply to Osaka-ben so much as to the Chūgoku region/Hiroshima-ben, iirc, though, so the more likely version of it is the next one (at least for 極主夫道, given that I’m fairly certain Tatsu speaks in Osaka-ben)
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Accusation, surprise, or emphasis. Sorta similar to ～やがる in standard Japanese.
Thank you so much!! I was just looking for it the other day and could not find it so this is a big help:)
Ah, okay, so it’s not a different conjugation of 来る (unlike 言う and I think 買う), but it is still a construction that you won’t see outside of dialect
Inarizaki are from Hyougo though iirc, which is right next to Chuugoku, so it’s possible it could be either. Especially since I don’t remember if I saw ておる/とる in HQ or just 極主夫道 (curse my decision to read them both at the same time lol). Though now that I’m aware there are two different よるs, I should be able to figure it out. Or if not now then whenever I reread lol I definitely do not understand nearly everything yet
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature 
People apparently found it confusing to have a post which is a reply to the same person that is quoted in the post, so now (just as you suspected) whenever you reply and then quote, the reply is removed. 
Spice & Wolf (28 → 30%)
I love it when early-morning-Glare does tasks for me so I don’t have to feel bad for not doing the tasks in the evening.
I know they might think it is a feature. I find it more of a bug. >_<
That somehow feels less intuitive to me, but Discourse be Discourse, I guess. 
I think it’s more inconvenient now tbh. Well, at least it’s not like on bunpro forums where the reply thingie is often gone and at the same time being a direct reply (i.e no quotes whatsoever)
I quite agree
It sure is
Anyway, though it’s not October yet I’ve been reading things for a while now and this thread will, hopefully, stimulate me to keep the pace. Today I’ve finished reading the volume of「ポケモンゲットだぜ」I’ve bought a long while ago and started reading わんわん探偵団 again. Also, read today’s NHK Easy News.
Also, plan on playing Japanese 二ノ国 again today, as I’ve been doing for about half a week now (and before that I’ve successfully finished Unreal Life in Japanese).
P. S. Sorry, the final part of this post was meant for the Fall thread; confused this one with it
September 28th!
Today I read half of chapter 2 of 耳をすませば.
I found it a bit hard to follow today, but I’m a bit tired and I got the gist of what was going on so I’m going to settle for that rather than really digging in to the bits that I didn’t quite get.
September 26-28 
化身, 28-40%
I’m doing my best to not read ahead in 十角館の殺人, so I started the second story from 化身. This one is called 雷魚, and it has a very different feel from the first one. The author’s love for nature still shines through though. The story is about an elementary school age boy growing up in a small village, who believes he has seen the shadow of a 雷魚 [1] in the small lake near the village and is determined to catch it and prove to everyone that he’s not making things up. This is the time when rumours have spread across the country about the 口裂け女[2] . Now this is supposed to be a horror book, so I didn’t think twice about it, but I did look up 口裂け女 out of curiosity, and apparently there really was a period in Japan when everyone was irrationally concerned about her. Wikipedia says: “Rumors about Kuchisake-onna spread throughout Japan, creating hysteria to the point that young children would sometimes be accompanied by members of parent–teacher association groups while walking home from school.” That was in 1979 - unclear whether the story really takes place at that time, but it’s likely.
Now our boy goes fishing alone every day in that rather remote location, and he encounters a woman. (Putting the rest in spoiler tags in case someone wants to read the story without knowing too much. Not really spoilers though.) He’s a rational boy and doesn’t believe in monsters and spirits, but he is still wary of this woman he’s never seen before - it’s a village, everyone knows everyone. The woman is friendly and likeable, but tells him to keep their meeting a secret, so he does. When people start saying that they saw the 口裂け女 right in their village, and describe the clothes the woman was wearing, our boy wants to speak up and defend her, but he’s already been called a liar once because of the fish he claims he saw. So he keeps his mouth shut, continues to try catching the fish, and continues meeting the woman at the lake every once in a while. Very curious to see where all this is going.
The story is interesting, and it reads faster than the previous one, 化身. However, I’d really like to have finished it by the weekend, so that I can resume reading with the mystery book club - it’s the very last installment, and I don’t want to be late when everyone else will already know who the killer is!
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 48
46 - 54
Accidentally took a 20 min nap in the middle of reading, so took that as my sign to give up for the night /:
September 28 
Home Post
Currently very sleepy so just counting class today, onward and upward
september 28 
home post
I finished two books today! Finished 極主夫道７ this morning before class (only had the omake left so it didn’t take long), and just now I finished 耳をすませば. I was going to keep reading 耳をすませば with the club, but since I have a lot of other book clubs I want to take part in right now I decided to finish this book asap.
Turns out I did not leave off on pg 82 of 明日をくれた君に last time, but rather pg 83, so that post’s been updated. Good thing is that, in rereading it, I figured out a construction that I couldn’t last time, so that’s good. Today I left off on pg 110, reading 27 pages and finishing ch 2!
They started discussing こころ a bit, which I feel like I’d understand a lot better if I’d actually read the book, but uh… I don’t think I’m ready for that yet lol. I also don’t have it yet. I’m collecting 海王社文庫’s 朗読CD付 versions of classics (wherein a popular seiyuu reads a passage from each), and I’m hoping to get their version of こころ at some point as well.
spoilers/speculation
Hmm so it’s seeming like 図書委員の佐藤先輩 isn’t 佐藤くん. Since Satou-kun doesn’t want Midzuki to know who he is, if he’s Satou-senpai then when Midzuki interacts with him it could be that it’s an act so she doesn’t find him out, but then the chapter ends with the latest letter she gets from Satou-kun reading, “藍原さんに、会いたい.” Doesn’t exactly sound like the words of someone who’s been interacting with her!
I kind of don’t think he’d go that far, either. When she tries to talk to him, Satou-senpai doesn’t seem to want her to, seems to just want to be left alone. (Of course, he does warm up to her and he does finally give her that book recommendation she’d asked for the first time she talked to him, but. That’s later.) But Satou-kun likes her romantically, so if he had the chance to interact with her as himself, especially without her actually knowing it’s him, wouldn’t he want to take it? Of course, he could have his reasons.
I’m also still not discounting that “Satou” is an alias. Sugiura could possibly be Satou-kun, then. He’s definitely important to the story, and at the end of this chapter, Midzuki had an interaction with him wherein she realized that he’s a nice person, contrary to how he looks and his reputation as a delinquent. She’d hurt her hand, and when he patted her head as he left the library, he left a band-aid on top of her head to put on her injury! Yeah, they do kind of know each other, but they’ve never really interacted before here, at which point the “I want to meet you” note is already in the book, and he’s surprised that Midzuki knows his name.
I suppose it’s technically possible that we haven’t met Satou-kun yet, but since this is chapter 2 out of 6 (nearly halfway through the novel page-wise), it’s almost certainly one of these two. I was originally thinking the librarian kid, a.k.a. Satou-senpai, but that was before Midzuki started actually interacting with him—and suspecting that he’s Satou-kun! —so early. Right now I’m definitely leaning toward it being Sugiura-kun.
Also if Sugiura is the love interest, then it would be ironic (hilarious) because Midzuki’d go from boggling at Ritsu because “you’re dating Kaito-kun who’s amazing, yet you’ll fawn over Sugiura-kun of all people?” to. dating him. lmao (Well, ‘fawn over’ might not really be the right word, but)
「そこ、どいてもらっていいですか」
Am I so used to hearing “どいて!” that どく sounds rude to me despite it not being inherently so, or is that still kinda rude but wrapped up in politeness? (Also, is he referring to her as そこ [like そこの方 but less polite] or is he asking her to move from there?)
Some vocab of note:
割り箸 (わりばし) [noun] disposable chopsticks
程なくして (ほどなくして) [expression] after a short while; not long after; soon; before long; shortly thereafter
Day 90: September 28th 
👓 ななか 6⁄17 Volume 1 (56% ➨ 67%)
I’ve been meaning to re-watch the anime for this for some time now, having previously watched it over a decade ago. I probably will as I work through the manga. Now I’m wondering if this made it into the anime in some form, as it’s text-based:
That is, assuming the anime followed the manga closely enough. I’m on chapter four now, and so far there’s only been two or three scenes that I’ve remembered.