day 1 
home post
Read: Yotsubato!
Progress: 8/224 → 16/224 pages read
Thoughts: I like being able to recognise more kanji as I do more lessons and practice reading them, but there’s still some difficulty with hiragana only words that I have to look up to be able to understand sentences.
I felt like my brain had a mini workout today, which is great!
Day 1, 1st of January
Alright, two DrDru stories, here we go.
In the first I stumbled over 危ない once more; the ない at the end makes it sound like it is a negation, but that is not the case. Have to keep this in mind, because it signifies danger! If I were to asume that is says “not dangerous” I could be in deep trouble… Instead, to negate this ありません was used.
Second story, we’re in London so there are a lot of Katakana (ugh).
Home post // Jan 1 
・ 本好きの下克上 16 (7% → 16%)
First day of the challenge :3! I’m continuing Honzuki adventures after cracking open the e-book yesterday. I have the suspicion that I’ve read through the best parts of Arc 4 already (book 13-15) 
but I’d love to be pleasantly surprised. On another note, I was kinda unfocused today, probably tiredness from doing the speed read challenge from the other day 
Doesn’t feel like I took the off-month off, hehe whoopsie 
Anyway, I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s updates! Happy new year, everyone! 
Gonna try for real this time. I can’t get myself to post daily, but I’ll try to do it weekly though 
And use this neat calendar.
Currently reading: 夜市 ~52% (want to finish before the end of the month)
Paused: Nausicaa
Planned: Spirit Circle, finish Nausicaa
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Day 1: January 1st
What did I read?: 夜の名前を呼んで Vol 3
How much did I read?: 32 pages
How long did it take me?: 37 min
Welcome to the first day of the challenge, everyone! Glad to see so many old and new faces 
Even some first-time-ever posters, I’m honored that you’ve chosen this thread as your first-ever posting place in this community 
I decided to start the challenge season off with the last (currently published) volume of my obsession from the previous challenge, 夜の名前を呼んで. I opened the first page and I’m already falling in love again because look, Rei braided his hair, how cute is that 
Look at this cute Rei face 
Why is he so cute
This was a happy magic times chapter 
Rei’s roof apparently leaks, so they collected the rainwater and went swimming in the rainwater’s memories, with the help of Stella’s magical bubble soap that gives them swimsuits that allow them to breathe underwater (and also makes them resemble the sea creature of their choice 
Mira chose jellyfish so Rei went with a squid ksjhgksdjhfj I thought that was so very cute)
It was just a lovely little fun time that made Mira happy, so that was nice :3
January 1
Home Post
NHK (new method for extracting gold) 
BU$TAFELLOWS 
Novel in English 
Well, they say to do January 1 as you mean to go on for the rest of the year, eh? Only I couldn’t possibly fit everything in, but somehow I absolutely smashed some reading today.
I forgot to mention on my home post that I hoped to try reading some more regular news. I’ve gotten to a stage where NHK easy is…easy I guess. xD So I want to occasionally dip my toes in and read the regular news. It does mean it takes me longer than just a couple of minutes, if nothing else because the articles are longer, but it wasn’t hard (safarikai for the win (safari/mac version of yomichan)).
I also ended up reading in English, I’m reading an old mystery/heist/caper that is pretty exciting.
And to finish off the day, I read a couple of more scenes of Bustafellows and got my first memorabilia which is why the home screen now shows I’ve read 1%. So percentage is completely tied to memorabilia and not at all to how much have been read. xD
Lastly, the spelling of percentage is one I will never remember and which is why I usually just do % instead, but sometimes I forget just how far off my thoughts on the spelling is and I try typing it. At least all spellcheckers always knows which word I’m trying to write, which means I’m not the only one who finds the spelling weird. 
This looks so cute! I’m going to have to add this manga to my to be read!
Well then, it’s the first day of the challenge and managed to read the second and third mini chapter in the first volume of 宇崎ちゃんは遊びたい！Was quite surprised at how dense the writing was to be honest so it took me around 30 minutes to fully read only 7 pages but hopefully it’ll get faster. I’ve also spotted some words I’ve only recently learned in Wanikani (like 真似) so that helped ease things along and was quite gratifying.
I’m not sure it also counts as read every day but I also started Pokemon Scarlet in japanese and they are quite talkative early on. Managed to sustain a full hour of play time. There wasn’t a lot of action but lots of reading and it also went surprisingly well. Much better than I was last year when I started Paper Mario and the Origami King around June.
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January 1st!
Today I read the 2nd chapter of volume 10 of Teasing Master Takagi-san.
I had planned to do a lot more reading today, but I got invited over to a friends house to meet their new baby so I did that instead of extra reading! He was super cute and teeny!
I’m hoping to read more tomorrow though 
1/1/23 9 pages Haruiro Astronaut, 3 pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ, 8 pages Cells at Work (finished this week’s reading)
I started to read over the chapters at the end of each of volumes 2-5 of Orange, having read the first one ages back. I’m not enjoying them so will probably drop them.
Finished Cells at Work for this week so just the IBC to catch up with.
Frankie’s home post
I’ve been struggling to keep a consistent habit when it comes to reading every day so this challenge is just what I need. (Its been very all in or nothing at all which is… 
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No real rules as long as I finish at least a page.
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Only linking days with updates
あけおめ！
Today I just finished vol 37 of HQ.
Update: Sometime after posting, I ended up picking up vol 38 and reading 5 more chapters.
Happy New Year everyone!!! 
Wishing everyone all the best for the new year!!!
Vasi’s home post 
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= read today
= missed day
I still haven’t sorted out what reading material I will be going through, but probably it’s going to be just a backlog of books/readers/manga, since I’m also trying to have a NoBuyingMoreBooksTemporarily policy in effect lol;
Alright, so this is what I’ve got for now:
暁のヨナ、第18巻、第19巻 with our ongoing bookclub!
教養366、Still have not gone full circle with this (started spring 2022), but I do have a lot of backlog…
10分で読める伝記6年生, a graded reader. [ Amazon link ]
わたしの幸せ結婚、第1-3巻 manga
Du Chinese app & Mandarin bean
花野井くんと恋の病 This manga’s volumes 1 and 2 for the minimmersion discord bookclub! わたしの幸せ結婚、小説 Vol.1
なぜどうして,もっと科学のお話ー4年生 link
氷属性男子とクールな同僚女子, manga
1月
２月
3月
13日-15日 ｜ 16日-19日
And updates might not be daily, but bidaily or however it best works out with my daily work routine etc!
Past challenges
Autumn 2021 
Winter 2022
Bookmeter
Goodreads
2023-01-02T01:22:00Z
I am re-starting 会長はメイド様！１. It’s been about a year since I gave it up for being too densely worded. Now I just breezed past the first 11 pages and actually understood most of the dialogue without relying on my memory of the plot. I even recognised words from my WaniKani lessons like the one I highlighted below:
Catbus’s Home Thread
Sneaks back into the WaniKani forums…
Bookmeter
Natively (freshly made!)
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Doing this and the Listening challenge. Today for reading it was trying to muddle through some Tadoku and starting Genki I. Here is to getting through Genki 1 by the end of this challenge!
UPDATE 1/16
After a bout of sickness i def fell off the wagon. But i’m back on it and studying Genki again! I don’t think I’ll get through the book by the end of February but thats okay.
softlyraining’s snowy book stack 
January 1st
ラストで君は「まさか！」と言う 冬の物語 (23% → 27%)
First day of the challenge in the books! My spouse and mother-in-law are playing cribbage behind me, so my concentration wasn’t the best.
I read one story from the collection, titled 「冬の気配」. I started reading this book for the advent calendar event in December, but I ended up falling behind on the whole thing…
Going forward, I’ll aim to read two stories per reading session.
This one was predictable but sweet. The premise is that, after an accident leaves a young woman with brain damage that costs her the ability to see, her boyfriend tries to prove to her that he still wants to be with her despite her newfound disabilities. She decides to give him one chance by requesting he bring her something wintery that is readily apparent to her. He ends up doing something that reminds her of the day they first started dating, and she realizes that she doesn’t want their relationship to end, either.
I think one of the challenges for a story collection like this is writing something that’s fully satisfying to read despite the short length. I don’t think this story hit that sweet spot for me.
After lurking for a while in the previous threads, I’m really excited to be joining the challenge this year! As of now, I have never read a single manga or book in Japanese so I hope this challenge will put an end to that! Yes, I’m Level 59 and haven’t read anything. I have formally studied grammar, though, so hopefully it won’t be too rough.
As well as reading some manga, I want to start regularly using the Aomi Japanese app I bought the past year. It’s an app that’s supposed to help you practice pitch accent in Japanese–you listen to a recording of a single word or phrase then record yourself repeating it in the app, and it shows you visually how your pitch accent compares. While it doesn’t correct you on actual pronunciation of vowels and consonants, I hope that just by repeating what I hear I’ll improve my pronunciation regardless. It also teaches onomatopoeia, slang, loan words, and idioms, all of which I’m lacking in. It works with a spaced repetition system, and has a gamified approach like Wanikani so it might be appealing to some of you, as well~
While the ideal goal, of course, is to do both everyday, as long as it more days than not, I think I’ll be satisfied!
Key
Aomi Japanese (Speaking Practice)
にわにはににん (Manga)
魔女と猫の話 (Manga)
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January 1st
What did I read?: にわにはににん
How much did I read?: 37 pages
(Completed Prologue: 庭師の仕事, Started 1st Story: 水槽屋敷)
How long did it take me?: 1 h 32 min
The book I will be starting with is にわにはににん by 中野シズカ! (That title’s so fun! XD)
It’s a collection of manga short stories which all are on the theme of gardens. I thought that starting with a short story collection would be good since when I’ve finished what would ordinarily be just a chapter’s worth, I could say, “I’ve finished a whole story!” Gotta motivate myself somehow! XD Will probably also be good since I’ll be reading pretty slowly, and having fewer characters and events to remember as I go through will be helpful.
While I technically did read 37 pages, the entirety of the prologue had no words except for sound effects, and quite a few of the pages in the first story were pretty sparse in words. So it wasn’t that much reading. But I still learned a few new words! There is also no furigana, so that’s, uh, fun. Though I actually don’t mind that much, since Wanikani has helped me out a lot in that respect, and I don’t actually want to lean on the help of furigana too much.
The Prologue was about a gardener maintaining a Zen garden while evading the attacks of sentient pine needles??? Random, but I thought it was neat how he could turn the strokes in the sand that represent water into actual water that he could drown the needles in. I’m only part way through the first story, so nothing to say about it yet except that the background art is really nice~
