📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

:wolf: :jack_o_lantern: PumpkinWolf’s Home Post :jack_o_lantern: :wolf:

一月
Week 00 :sparkles: :fox_face:
Week 01 :microphone: :microphone: :microphone: :microphone: :heart: :basketball: :crown:
Week 02 :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :briefcase: :briefcase: :crab:
Week 03 :tada: :baguette_bread: :crossed_swords: :baguette_bread: :baguette_bread: :ring: :bento:
Week 04 :dog2: :ramen: :egg: :popcorn: :bacon: :spaghetti: :beach_umbrella:
Week 05 :love_letter:
二月
Week 05 :cookie: :bubble_tea: :bat: :bat: :video_game: :doughnut:
Week 06 :tangerine: :maple_leaf: :snowman: :snowflake: :poodle: :baseball: :tshirt:
Week 07 :sake: :cherry_blossom: :mortar_board: :cake: :books: :ocean: :balloon:
Week 08 :broom: :lollipop: :lollipop: :lollipop: :seedling: :strawberry: :lemon:
Week 09 :fireworks:
三月
Week 09 :open_umbrella: :wine_glass: :apple: :sleeping_bed: :owl: :person_with_crown:
Week 10 :raised_hands: :sunflower: :hotsprings: :shield: :high_touch: :sparkling_heart: :pineapple:
Week 11 :pineapple: :pineapple: :banjo: :flamingo: :airplane: :angrymami: :durtle_hello:
Week 12 :durtle_hello: :durtle_hello: :durtle_hello: :durtle_hello: :durtle_hello: :owl: :exploding_head:
Week 13 :star_struck: :heart_eyes_cat: :dizzy: :cookie:

目標:毎日30分の読書 (15分でもOKです。)
Number of Manga Finished So Far: 72
Finished Kiki’s Delivery Service! :white_check_mark:
Finished Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Volume 3 (April 3rd) :white_check_mark:

シュガーアップル・フェアリーテイル 銀砂糖師と白の貴公子

3月13日 4% (12/210)
3月14日 7% (19/210)
3月15日 14% (31/210)
3月18日 21% (47/210)
3月19日 25% (54/210)
3月20日 26% (56/210)
3月21日 28% (59/210)
3月22日 31% (61/210
3月23日 34% (73/210)
3月24日 39% (83/210)
3月25日 42% (89/210)
3月28日 46% (96/210)
3月29日 51% (107/210)
3月30日 59% (123/210)
3月31日 64% (133/210)
4月01日 69% (143/210)
4月02日 81% (169/210)
4月03日 100%!!

🏔️未読の山🏔️ (Now under 10!)

12月29日 52冊
1月1日 50冊
1月2日48冊
1月3日48冊
1月4日47冊
1月8日46冊
1月9日45冊
1月13日 44冊
1月15日 43冊
1月16日 41冊
1月17日 37冊
1月21日 36冊
1月22日 37冊
1月23日 36冊
1月27日 35冊
1月29日 33冊
1月30日 30冊
2月7日 27冊
2月9日 23冊
2月10日 21冊
2月14日 16冊
2月18日 15冊
3月03日 11冊
3月12日 6冊

魔女の宅急便


12月28日 29%
12月29日 31%
12月30日 35%
2月12日 38%
2月19日 51%
2月21日 100%
I binge-read the last half in one day and I can’t believe it’s over.

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I’d like to join :slight_smile:

📚 Neba's Home Post 📚

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Books

The goal is to read the books I’ve purchased but not read yet.

  • コンビニ人間
  • 地球星人
  • 嫌われる勇気
Diary
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thank you for making the calandar.

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This is my first challenge to join on Wanikani, so I’m looking forward to it. I’d like to start with something really simple, so I’m going to read a kid’s magazine, called ちゃお.

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Welcome to the challenge! Sounds like you’ve picked something fun to read and I look forward to your updates.

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Hi! Thanks @windupbird for setting up this challenge, it’s promising to be really fun! I’ve never participated in challenges like this, but always thought that I was missing out on the collective spirit and the extra motivation from external accountability. Seeing how welcoming and supportive WK community is, I decided that this is a perfect opportunity to give it a try! :slight_smile:

I still have very little idea how this whole challenge thing works, so I guess I’ll look at what everyone else is doing and try to follow suit. Here’s my calendar (thanks to whoever came up with it!):

一月
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二月
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Goals and books

I don’t have any specific reading goals right now, but I’m currently at the point where I understand most of the basic grammar and quite a bit of Kanji, but lack a lot of simple vocabulary, and find reading to require quite a lot of effort. So my plan is to focus on just reading whatever I feel like – to get into the habit. Hopefully, over time, as I get more reading experience, it will become less and less laborious. I also hope to somehow maintain the balance between effort and fun, so that I habitualize it rather than burn out, even though I don’t have a solid plan for this last part :sweat_smile:

Here are a few things that I’ve been reading lately, so I’ll probably be mostly continuing with these:

  • よつばと! – I started it from scratch 2-3 times already and have read through about half of the first volume so far, but even though it’s probably the easiest entry on my list (at least, for me), and it’s been quite fun to read, somehow I can’t get through with it (and I have all 15 volumes sitting on the shelf waiting…) Let’s see how it goes this time around.
  • 五等分の花嫁 – Much harder for me than よつば, but I enjoy it quite a lot. I’m currently on the second volume, and waiting to get to the part of the story not covered by the anime with both excitement and dread (as in, will I still be able to follow it without knowing what is supposed to happen?)
  • 時をかける少女 – I tried it a few months ago, and it was a bit hard, but within reason. I like the story (which I vaguely remember from the anime), so maybe I’ll push through this time.
  • 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 – Given its writing style, this one is very hard for me right now, but I occasionally attempt to read it “immersion-style”, i.e. without looking anything up, just trying to absorb as much as I can – which is to say, not that much :persevere:

I also have a bunch of other books and manga, some of them perhaps more appropriate for my level, and some completely out of reach (e.g. 〈物語〉シリーズ), so I might add more as time goes.

Links to daily updates
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From a quick glance at the previous threads, it seems like a lot of people tend to post daily updates as well as maintaining their summary post. So, a question for those of you who have tried it before: in what ways do you find daily updates help you (and/or others) – psychologically or otherwise? I’m still a bit uncertain about doing them myself (since I’m a bit too wordy, but not at all chatty, if this makes any sense), so I’d be happy to get some insight into why people like doing them. Thanks!

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Welcome! :durtle_hello:

Why I like doing daily updates:

  • Can document what I’ve read that day. (I tend to jump between different books or manga instead of reading through one thing before starting another thing.)

  • Can document how much I’ve read. I mostly read ebooks, so I write the amount in percentage.

  • Can write about how it went, whether it was a good/bad day for reading, busy or not so busy, etc.

  • I can know for sure that I actually did read that day and not misremember or anything. I’m terrible at keeping track of time. Time blind kinda, if that makes sense xD

  • Share words I’ve learned, fun facts, what I thought about a book, etc.

  • Can go through the posts later to figure out how long I’ve spent reading a particular book (even if I read other stuff in-between).

And it’s fun to read other people’s updates too! :3
Especially when they share photos of cute animals :eyes: :raccoon: There was plenty of cute tanuki in the previous thread, it kind of became our mascot, hehe.

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Hello! This is one of my first posts on the forums, despite being a long-time lurker. I’m excited to do this challenge! I’ve been reading the second volume of a light novel series (ティアムーン帝国物語) since August, and I could use the consistency. I’m a slow reader (about 12.5 pages/hour) but it’s so fun that I really don’t mind! (Edit: I just measured my reading speed for the third volume of the light novel series that I’m reading, and since starting the challenge, I’m now at about 18 pages/hour!!)

Jan
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Planned Reads:

  1. ティアムーン帝国物語 volume 2 (43% in originally):heavy_check_mark: Finished 2/13/2022
  2. まいりました入間くん volume 24 (got for xmas, so pretty and my first physical manga!):heavy_check_mark: Finished 1/18/2022
  3. 指輪の選んだ婚姻者 volumes 1-4 (also just got, also very pretty)
  4. My general backlog of free manga that were on sale on Amazon (60 and counting…)

Current Reads

  1. ティアムーン帝国物語 volume 3 (started Feb. 18th; currently on page 44/301 which is 14% in)

I’m looking forward to reading with you all!

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:snowflake: meagstudies’ summary post :snowflake:
spring →

january

february

natively

Daily Updates

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:cloud_with_snow: february

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What I'm Reading + Progress

Mainly continuing the Satori Reader stories I started in 2021 (Akiko’s American Foreign Exchange and Hole in the Wall) and reading along with the 極主夫道 book club. Will probably read some other stuff too

PROGRESS

Currently Reading

Reading Days Read Type Recommend?
Kona’s Big Adventure Jan 1-2, 4,7-8, Feb 9 Satori Yes
亜人1 Jan 1, 3 Manga idk yet…
デスノート1 Jan 22-23,31, Feb 9 Manga Yes
極主夫道2 Jan 31 Manga Yes!!
ふらいんぐうぃっち 1 Feb 7,9 Manga idk yet

Finished

Reading Days Read Type Recommend?
極主夫道1 Jan 3, 11 Manga Yes!!
Akiko’s American Foreign Exchange Jan 5-6,12, 14, 19, 21 Satori Yes!!
チーズスイートホーム1 Jan 23, Feb 7 Manga Yeah it’s cute
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Progress
January
  • 1st: I spent 37 minutes reading 僕らはみんな河合荘. I started by rereading pages 9 and 10, to verify how much I remembered from last time and then read 3 more pages. I’m currently at chapter 1, page 13/15.

  • 2nd: I decided it was a good moment to catch up with the ABBC. I reread the first half and then read the second half of 三ツ星カラーズ chapter 4. It took me exactly 30 minutes. I learnt about the use of やがる. Now I’m completely caught up. Next week, I’ll start reading chapter 5.
    Later during the day, I discovered that chapter 1 of おじさまと猫 is available for free (for a limited time) on BookWalker. I read 5 chapters / 24 pages (in 42 minutes). It’s quite simple and extremely cute!

  • 3rd: At first, I wasn’t sure if I should start another manga, but there are still 16 days until the first volume of 地縛少年花子くん expires and I noticed it has furigana over every kanji, so I couldn’t resist. I read 16 pages in 57 minutes.
    I also needed some more of おじさまと猫, so I reread chapter 5 and read chapter 6 and 7. It took me 30 minutes.
    Hopefully, I can finish them both in time.

  • 4th: I felt like reading some more of 地縛少年花子くん and I got really into it. I read pages 16-39 and spent 1h46min doing it. Even though I’ve already seen the anime, so I know what’s going to happen, reading the manga is a lot of fun. BBC’s vocabulary list is quite useful. Thanks to it, I can read faster than I would normally do. Having said that, the list isn’t complete, so I added more words to it. Maybe someone will use it later on.

  • 5th: I managed to finish the first chapter of 地縛少年花子くん. I read pages 40-55. In total, I was reading for 1h 36min. There were many words I didn’t know and didn’t find on the vocabulary list, but thanks to furigana I was able to figure out what the characters were saying. I’m enjoying the manga more than I thought I would.

  • 6th: 地縛少年花子くん (1h 24min) and 幸色のワンルーム (1h 5min)

  • 7th: 幸色のワンルーム (41min) and おじさまと猫 (30min)

  • 8th: 地縛少年花子くん (33min) and 幸色のワンルーム (54min)

  • 9th: 地縛少年花子くん (1h 18min) and 幸色のワンルーム (30min)

  • 10th: 幸色のワンルーム (39min)

  • 11th: 地縛少年花子くん (33min)

  • 12th: 地縛少年花子くん (55min)

  • 13th: おじさまと猫 (34min)

  • 14th: おじさまと猫 (45min)

  • 15th: おじさまと猫 (47min) and レンタルおにいちゃん (1h 5min)

  • 16th: レンタルおにいちゃん (45min)

  • 17th: からかい上手の高木さ (31min)

  • 18th: からかい上手の高木さ (32min)

  • 19th: からかい上手の高木さ (36min)

  • 20th: からかい上手の高木さ (40min)

  • 21st: からかい上手の高木さ (34min)

  • 22nd: からかい上手の高木さ (1h 9min)

  • 23rd: からかい上手の高木さ (37min)

  • 24th: からかい上手の高木さ (30min)

  • 25th: からかい上手の高木さ (31min)

  • 26th: からかい上手の高木さ (32min)

  • 27th: からかい上手の高木さ (39min)

  • 28th: からかい上手の高木さ (35min)

  • 29th: からかい上手の高木さ (30min)

  • 30th: からかい上手の 元 高木さん (39min) and からかい上手の高木さ (15min)

  • 31st: からかい上手の高木さ (31min)

February
  • 1st: からかい上手の高木さ (8min) and からかい上手の 元 高木さん (25min)

  • 2nd: からかい上手の 元 高木さん (35min)

  • 3rd: からかい上手の 元 高木さん (30min)

  • 4th: からかい上手の 元 高木さん (32min)

  • 5th: からかい上手の 元 高木さん (42min)

  • 6th: SHY (57min)

  • 7th: SHY (34min)

  • 8th: SHY (30min)

  • 9th: SHY (33min)

  • 10th: SHY (33min)

  • 11th: SHY (35min)

  • 12th: SHY (36min)

  • 13th: SHY (30min)

  • 14th: SHY (31min)

  • 15th: 初恋の世界 (32min)

  • 16th: 初恋の世界 (30min)

  • 17th: 初恋の世界 (30min)

  • 18th: 初恋の世界 (35min)

  • 19th: 初恋の世界 (42min)

  • 20th: 初恋の世界 (33min)

  • 21st: 初恋の世界 (32min)

  • 22nd: 初恋の世界 (31min)

  • 23rd: 初恋の世界 (30min)

  • 24th: 初恋の世界 (31min)

  • 25th: 初恋の世界 (32min)

  • 26th: 初恋の世界 (31min)

  • 27th: 初恋の世界 (30min)

  • 28th: マチネとソワレ (31min)

Finished
  1. Jan, 10th: 1st volume of 幸色のワンルーム

  2. Jan, 12th: 1st volume of 地縛少年花子くん

  3. Jan, 15th: 1st volume of おじさまと猫

  4. Jan, 16th: 1st volume of レンタルおにいちゃん

  5. Jan, 20th: 1st volume of からかい上手の高木さん

  6. Jan, 23rd: 2nd volume of からかい上手の高木さん

  7. Jan, 27th: 3rd volume of からかい上手の高木さん

  8. Feb, 1st: 4th volume of からかい上手の高木さん

  9. Feb, 2nd: 1st volume of からかい上手の 元 高木さん

  10. Feb, 4th: 2nd volume of からかい上手の 元 高木さん

  11. Feb, 5th: 3rd volume of からかい上手の 元 高木さん

  12. Feb, 14th: 1st volume of SHY

  13. Feb, 27th: 1st volume of 初恋の世界

Key

✗ = didn’t read
✓ = read for 30 minutes or more
★ = read for an hour or more

My natively profile

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First off, I definitely agree with everything @Redglare said! I think doing the daily posts has helped me maintain accountability too, because it’s an easy way to show that I’ve read that day and track what I’ve read (obviously, the summary post does that as well, but it feels less “visible” to others since it’s just editing a previous post vs. a brand new post).

I also just enjoy sharing things that are cute or that made me laugh or fun new words I learned or whatever I may or may not have been responsible for bringing the tanuki into the last thread :eyes: so for me, it can be fun and motivating to share with the group via daily posts. I think it’s nice to be able to see what people are up to each day, and I think it adds to the team spirit feeling as well ^^ I know I’ve also gotten good ideas for additional things to read/check out from reading other people’s update posts in previous threads.

One thing I will say about my experience doing daily posts is that it can become a double-edged sword of sorts - doing daily posts does add more time to the overall process (especially if you’re me and you spend hours writing posts as a general rule), and that can make it feel a bit burdensome sometimes. I’m going to keep doing daily posts this challenge, because I do have fun sharing, but I’m going to try not to pressure myself to post super detailed updates all the time, if I’m tired and don’t feel like it - some people’s update posts are much more simple than mine have historically been, and that’s totally fine as well.

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We may potentially end up overlapping on よつばと!then at some point during this challenge if you are also close to the beginning of the series - I look forward to seeing your updates if you decide to read through vol.2 onwards!

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:snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: Winter 2022 Reading Challenge :snowman_with_snow: :snowflake:

Jan
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Status: Completed
Completion: 54 / 59 days (91.5%)


Daily division
January

January 1
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January 2
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January 3
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January 9
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January 18
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January 19
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January 21
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January 22
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January 24
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January 30
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January 31
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February

February 1
星の王子さま, p. 9-13.

February 2
星の王子さま, p. 14-17.

February 3
星の王子さま, p. 18-26.

February 4
星の王子さま, p. 27-30.

February 5
星の王子さま, p. 31-34.

February 6
星の王子さま, p. 35-39.

February 7
「餃子といえば宮崎だ!」 新“ギョーザ日本一の街”のヒミツ

February 8
ギョーザ購入額 宮崎市が初の日本一 浜松市と宇都宮市上回る

February 9
星の王子さま, p. 40-45.

February 10

  1. 【動画】すし店が自動販売機で売るものは? コロナ禍で進化も
  2. 「焼き肉の自販機」お目見え “焼き肉の街”をPR 長野 飯田
  3. ロボット内蔵ソファー 「ロボ家具」ネットで話題に 福岡 大川

February 11
雪の朝 受験生は早めに試験会場へ 東京

February 12 ー February 20
Tobira lessons 1 to 5.
An NHK article I´m too lazy to find about gear-shaped valentine’s day chocolate.

February 21 ー February 23

  1. さわやかな酸味が特徴 宮崎の特産「日向夏」の収穫体験
  2. 双子のパンダ生後8か月に 氷で遊ぶ映像公開 上野動物園
  3. 観光客に電動キックスケーター貸し出し 熊本 八代

Previous Challenges

2021:

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I may not have much time to read since I’ll have classes soon, but I’d still like to try something like this. So, I’ll keep the bar low in terms of what counts as reading. Making updates with what I’ve read sounds pretty interesting as well.
I think I’ll mainly be reading from video games and Naruto. I come across a lot of Japanese players in Monster Hunter Rise, and it’s been pretty fun trying to read their names and shoutouts.

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Reading List
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:snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: Winter 2022 Reading Challenge :snowman_with_snow: :snowflake:

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Status: In Progress
Completion: 3 / 59 days (5%)

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:snowman: :snowman_with_snow:sycamore winter reading summary post :books: :snowflake:

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Things I currently plan to read/am reading:
  • 呪術廻戦- the first 8 volumes of this are free on bookwalker until 6th Jan and I’m currently at the start of vol 3 so I’m guessing my first week or so will be taken up with this!
  • 5分後に意外な結末(赤い悪夢) - I’m 2 short stories into this collection. They are pretty light and fun reads.
  • book club things (kikis, haikyuu, yotsuba) I probably won’t track these too much here
  • a novel! I really want to read another novel during this challenge but I will use the first week of reading 呪術廻戦 to decide which one. It might be ハイ☆スピード! (which @windupbird made sound very fun and cute in the first challenge). Update I picked one! I’m reading 鏡の孤城 :slight_smile:
  • I’ve also been playing quite a few games in japanese (ace attorney, tokimeki memorial girls side 4 - so it’s possible I will dip back into those at times.
Completed
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  • 呪術廻戦5-8
Links to daily updates

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I would like to do a bit better at doing if not daily, then regular updates this time around as I think it does make a big difference to my motivation when I do so, although the time taken is a trade off as others have mentioned. I’m going to try to use this challenge to try to push myself forward to read some more challenging things (prose is hard, no fun pictures :sob:) but keep to my ‘if I’m not having fun then I’m dropping it’ rule :slight_smile:

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Thanks so much for setting this up! Looking forward to participating in my first challenge and reading more to improve my Japanese :smiley:

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Goals: Finish all of あずまんが大王 vols 1-3 or as much as I can of it lol
Jan 11 Edit: Finished Vol. 1!
Feb. 9 Edit: Finished Vol. 2! One more to go!
Feb. 28 Edit - Finished Vol.3 on the last day with tears in my eyes! Azumanga Daioh is an amazing series, highly recommend it to anyone. My next goals are to finish 少女終末旅行 and じょしらく

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After last year trying many methods of learning vocab, I found out that just looking up everything you don’t know/you’re not certain of is the best way (for me). Also reading more in stead of SRS-ing every word you come across is ultimately what made my time reading significantly more enjoyable!

When you look up words multiple times, your brain will make the connection between the word and the meaning over time. If you don’t see a word enough for it to stick, then it was not important enough for you to learn it

That’s my unasked advice for you ;D I will look forward to your posts and progress over the months ^^

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I’m so excited to start this challenge with everyone! That being said, welcome to my home post! :house_with_garden:

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Goals and Resources
  • また、同じ夢を見てた - I would like to finish the whole book if possible but I have to work around my new time schedule

  • スパイファミリー - Finish volume 1

  • 古見さんは、コミュ症です- If possible, finish volume 13

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Reply to any of the posts including calendars, and then just copy paste the code. And welcome!

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