📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2023 🕶☀

Japanese Language Reading
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:beach_umbrella: Day 34, ８ 月 ３ 日 :sunny:

:open_book: Back to my Home Post

:princess: Tileworld Chronicles, Chapter 5 of Markus’ Ascent, p. 1
Only the first page toay because I’m quizzing myself on particles. It’s hard to focus when I’m thinking so hard.

Anyway, a new part of the adventure! Near the market where Markus wants to sell runestones are two knights from the runecrafting school. Markus is of course starstruck. I wonder if you become a knight after you finish that school? One would think the life of a knight would be too busy to spend it doing research and crafting otherwise.

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Ok I can totally see this with the way numbers are listing grammar work in Japanese.

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:house_with_garden: Home Post

:books: ８月３日
9-nine- Episode 4 (12.7k characters)

As planned, club week done one day earlier c: . It’s not the first week I do it but the only club related work tomorrow being just a couple copy&pastes and an upload click surely is nice. I’ll be able to read Fatal Twelve instead.

Sorry I forgot to answer to this, but thanks! Though if you ask me the work you’re reading looks much more daunting in comparison :sweat_smile: . Just for the sheer amount of character names alone you must have had to learn by now… I don’t think I would be able to follow. 脱帽.

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:house: home post :house:

  • よつばと！１２・Finished it :slight_smile: not too many volumes left now! (it stops at 15, with no release date yet for volume 16 I believe)

@Daisoujou yes play Flowers 2 :smiley: I will be starting it as soon as I’m done with the first one (probably some time this month?), even though I can’t keep up with your speed (even if I read in English :joy:), would be fun to do it at the same time!

よつばと！１２・So this is what my children see when they do something cute...

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Alright yeah, if you’re gonna be doing it around that time too, sounds fun. Tiny book club :grin:

(And I noticed @AzusaChan getting that first like in quickly when I mentioned it, their automatic alerts for “flowers” being mentioned on the forums went off :wink:)

On that note, I won’t be TOO much longer, because today with another 10k characters read, I’m at 79% through 硝子の塔の殺人 right now! That seems to be about how much reading I can get in before people make me play Splatoon 3 :sweat_smile:. Enjoying it a lot! I’ll do more later too. Once again mining words took me about that long so that’s cool.

Can we talk about how specific and uhh, interesting the stuff I mine at this point is becoming? One of today’s words is 吐瀉 (としゃ, vomiting and diarrhea). How convenient to have a combined term :skull: Getting lots of random anatomical terms like 頸動脈 (けいどうみゃく carotid artery), or stuff like 勃起不全 (ぼっきふぜん, erectile dysfunction). It’s becoming a fascinating anki deck, fun to be out of the simple words into the overly specific. And god this beats when I was reading Soseki and tormenting myself by mining the names of like 6 different kinds of trees. :sob:

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I finished reading Kana’s story in Shiny. It was pretty good overall. I should probably read more OnK at some point since I like her character a lot but its nice being able to produce her in Shiny. I’ll have to check out the other OnK characters stories soon. Her live outfit is pretty too

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I also caught up a little bit on はなにあらし and read about a volume & 1/2 of that. I’m about halfway done with volume 9. Its a much easier read than some of the other stuff I’m reading (like Fatal Twelve) so its nice to have that on the side and not worry about looking up many words.

I’ve been thinking for a while that I want to reread Flowers in Japanese. Maybe once 9-nine or Fatal Twelve ends I’ll finally get around to rereading it. If we can convince a few more people to pick it up we could start a Flowers club here :wink:
Speaking of the Flowers series, I’ve also been reading through the Flowers Couleur art book albeit inconsistently. Its called an artbook but its pretty lengthy, like over 300 pages long and has extra stories, character biographies, stage design descriptions, storyboard info, etc. Surprisingly a lot of text for an artbook but still a lot of art in it too :sweat_smile: I have been slowly working with a few other Flowers fans to translate some of the content in it for people. I’m not really into translating but its a fun thing to do on the side for the community.

My Flowers senses are strong :wink: :joy:

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Yeah 9-nine-'s gonna be over in, what, a little under 2 months? Well, I guess we need to add on a couple weeks for the epilogue thing, come to think of it. I’d also be down to join for some sorta side club, but then again I just read the first VN so I guess I’d be waiting longer for you all to catch up to 2, hmm.

Oh that’s really cool!

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Yeah the epilogue is pretty short too (think its like 60k characters from what jpdb says?) so 9-nine shouldn’t take that much longer. I’m not sure how long it would take me to finish the first Flowers game though. Its a little lengthy (310k~ characters) and just from reading the art book stories alone I can tell the language is more, uh, flowery than standard VN stuff that I read so it might take longer to read due to the difficulty. The one plus is I’ve read the story in English before so even if I’m behind on the reread, I can still participate in the discussions and not be spoiled if you want to read ahead

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If it’s a thing you really do want to consider seriously putting together, even just for a couple of us, I have so much I could potentially read that it’s no problem at all personally for me to wait til whenever works for you to pick the series back up, and barring anything truly huge and unexpected I could promise to be available to join when that time comes. Obviously now is very sudden so no need to immediately decide, but if you think you want to try, just let me know before I pick 2 up on my own ( and/or with @Akashelia ).

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I’m sure you wouldn’t have guessed it but we have such a word in German as well :rofl:
(and since many many medical terms in Japanese are actually German loanwords or literal translations of German words, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was another one of them)

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Still loving hearing about all these. What’s the German word for having a specific word for everything? :upside_down_face:

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We call it “Sprache” :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Summary post

Day 30: July 30th
Missed :upside_down_face: My space feels so much better though, I threw out all the stupid boxes in my entryway, cleaned my floor, washed my sheets, cleared off/straightened up my kitchen island, and put some stuff away. Still work to be done, but it feels so much less cluttered :relieved:

Day 31: July 31st
What did I read?: 雨と君と Vol 5
How much did I read?: 18 pages
How long did it take me?: 8 min

Day 32: Aug 1st
What did I read?: 晴れのち四季部 Vol 1
How much did I read?: 10 pages
How long did it take me?: 33 min

The idea of text just makes my brain just go “mm nope, not gonna do that” right now. So…pictures it is :joy: There’s text hidden in there, but don’t tell my brain :shushing_face: This manga is very pretty, like the colors are just gorgeous~

Day 33: Aug 2nd
Missed :upside_down_face: Honestly just didn’t feel like reading

Day 33: Aug 3rd
What did I read?: かにみそ
How much did I read?: 2 pages
How long did it take me?: 42 min

…Why have I done this :joy: :joy: After seeing this in the Deciphering Japanese Book Covers thread, I decided to give into my impulses and buy it lmao, I am just so intrigued (it was only like $5 on Bookwalker so honestly, even if I don’t finish it, why not). But it’s clearly going to take me forever, why can’t I read faster :sob:

…This has been a rather chaotic week for reading tbh, looking back on it xD (Also I keep forgetting that it’s not Friday yet, in my brain it has been Friday since Wednesday) I was also supposed to start the Listen Every Day challenge a couple days ago but I have not, I kinda decided I’d start it when I felt like it and not force it. Been super productive and focused at work though! If only I could do that and like…anything else at the same time :sweat_smile: Still, it’s been nice to feel like I can actually focus and get work done, it’s been a minute since it felt this good.

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August 3rd!

I finished the chapter of ロジカとラッカセイ that I started yesterday.
I really enjoyed this chapter, so I’m glad I waited until today to finish it instead of just slogging through it while I was tired - I don’t think I’d have appreciated it as much otherwise.

(Home Post)

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:nail_care: August 3 :cat:

:cat: Book Pages
:nail_care: JoJo 41 38-59

My concentration was totally shot yesterday, so I didn’t try Seasons :parasol_on_ground: before bed, I just did JoJo :nail_care: instead. I was worried it was the wrong choice because things got really exciting but I got a good night’s sleep last night. Usually I set my thermostat to 25*, but last night it bugged out and dropped the temperature to 20*. I slept great though. I guess 20* is really ideal for humans.

Back to JoJo :nail_care: was this is the alien arc and now Josuke’s met up with Rohan. They’re playing dice. Recently, Rohan was in the janken arc where he punched an elementary schoolkid in the face and also cheated while playing janken! So you know what he does while playing dice? Tries to intimidate Josuke, a high school student, by telling him about how yakuza will shove dice in the eyes of people who do things they’re not supposed to while playing dice if I understand right. Totally normal behavior. Then, after Josuke gets some lucky rolls, Rohan cuts off his pinky and says that if he figures out how Josuke is cheating, Josuke will owe him his pinky and if Josuke wins, he can have Rohan’s pinky. Demented. Also though, Rohan is serving up another great look at least. The cut out shirts, especially this one as a crop top, are just :ok_hand: mmm

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3 August (home post)

今日「D.N.Angel」の10ページを読みました。明日読み返します。

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Home

＊８月３日＊

  • previews for 冴えない僕は、君のヒーロー and コワモテ男子の弁当が美味い理由
  • 98 pages of 君の声は魔法, reading ch 5-7 and leaving off on pg 189
So glad I’m over halfway through now

So Negishi does know about the arrangement, and he’s worried about the potential harm that may come to Rin from Sakuragi’s fans. Deterring his overbearing female fans with little to no sense of boundaries (how ironic, considering he’s the same) is ostensibly the entire reason he approached Rin to fake-date him—though from the way he’s been acting from the beginning, I feel like that was just pretext. Negishi should be more worried about Sakuragi himself causing Rin harm, honestly. He approves of him now, but that man cannot be trusted even an ounce.

Yup.

This is even worse than I was expecting. Especially knowing that the excerpt on the color illustration comes from a section sometime after this? Eeg.

「君は好きになった人を困らせて、それで本当にファンだと思う？」Does the author really not see the irony in this line, especially in having Sakuragi say it? Actually, his crazy fans might be better at boundaries than he is. But then again, they’re not manipulative, and he hella is. (What the hell is with the needlessly dramatic illustration that goes with this scene, anyway? With the splash marks, I thought she was throwing ice cream or something on Rin, but she was just holding out a letter of apology from the group of apparently-not-so-overbearing/entitled fans she’s a part of and promising they’ll back off and leave the two of them alone.)

Well, we got the line. And while Sakuragi seems to be acting better afterward despite his totally unrepentant attitude, considering how manipulative he’s been the whole time (knowing just how gentle/nice/sweet to be to get Rin to let him get away with what he wants to do that Rin doesn’t)… I ain’t buying it.

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:ocean: :beach_umbrella: ８月３日 :beach_umbrella: :ocean: (Home Post Link)

Read:

  • aDoBJG - more と, not as many と as に entries, but still a fair few :laughing:
  • 化物語 like 30-40 pages, i didn’t really count, about halfway through ch2
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:books: :sunny: Home post :snowflake: :droplet:

8月3日 (木)

:cherry_blossom: Ouran (5 pages)
:white_flower: aDoBJG: のに2
D.Gray-Man: Chapter 4

I’ve been wanting to start the novel of キノの旅, but I worry it will be too much together with the other 2 books I’m reading… perhaps once I’m done with the volume of D-Gray-Man.

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:open_book: :computer: :watermelon: :sunny: August 3

Pretty happy with today’s reading. I read some コップクラフト (25% → 28%) and then got really into 僕が愛したすべての君へ and read quite a bit (75% → 84%). Great to see I’m quickly getting back some speed.

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