I may not have read very much today but I did spend a significant amount of time figuring out how to get Mokuro and ttsu working for the ultimate reading setup I’ve seen some of you guys mention these in passing, but, being a very lazy person, I ignored it and assumed it was something too difficult for me ahaha. Until now I’ve just been doing manual lookups of unknown words while reading pfft it’s so much easier to just hover with yomichan and continue reading
Anyway before I got Mokuro set up n all, this panel took me a stupidly long time to figure out what it was saying?? This font throws me for a loop every time it’s used
Ended up finishing the first volume of Food Wars yesterday, all except a 4 page extra little story that I didn’t think was related to Food Wars, but when I read it this morning it turned out it was.
So I read one volume in one day, because I read it extensively. I didn’t look up even one thing. My understand was… well… terribly for a lot of it. Like when Erina is talking, when teachers were talking, when they were talking about cooking methods and why they did X and how it worked.
I still want to get the full manga. Partially because that is something I can own (I buy manga physically because I like looking at art in physical form, normal novels and such I’m happy to do ebook). I actually looked into rewatching the anime for Food Wars. But there is no legal way I can stream the first season, only season 3-5. I’m not even sure I can get access to it with VPN, not if I want English subtitles… (and I’m not talking about streaming for free either, but like buying a subscription to a streaming service that have it…)
So I looked into buying it on DVD or Blu-ray, but it is old enough that those are not really available, once again especially the first season doesn’t seem to be possible to purchase (unless I start looking into ebay or similar second hand places, there it might be possible), but then I run into region bs instead.
Yeah, streaming is so great, especially when you live in a smaller country for which streaming services have less incentive to license for, and when licenses tend to be temporary so you never know if you can watch the thing you want to watch when you want to. Can you tell I’m not a fan of streaming? (I’m a serial re-reader and re-watcher, streaming often suck for that.)
OMG!!! Harry Potter 1, chapter 2 just completed in 4 back-to-back sessions of about 2 and a half hours!!!
This was the book that fostered my love for reading years ago in high school so it makes sense that this may be the first completed Japanese novel (still a long way to go but I’m so proud of myself I can cry).
コンビニ人間 10 → 18 - biggest bite so far. Definitely still understanding quite a bit more than my last attempt. Some sections still occasionally a bit hazy, but way faster to read.
I got home late on thursday and worked a 12h shift yesterday, so I ended up not posting here. I only read a few pages of 作家になりたい！ each day. Today was better, and I finished the first chapter of 作家になりたい! and also finished この美術部には問題がある！ with the BBC. Even though I enjoyed reading with everyone, I think I prefer reading a single book at a time without artificial pacing. Since the next BBC pick does not appeal to me, I’m going to skip that one. I looked at the IBC pick but it still seems too hard, I guess I’m in a pre-intermediate book club limbo…
Edit: I also read a single Satori Reader episode at night since I was considering my options for reading on a phone.
You could read one of the previous IBC at your own pace and try the next next IBC! Can recommend the current IBC read as a first novel, it has quite short chapters and is very dynamic (a lot of action and not a lot of descriptions). Also if you can get an epub file of the book, then you can read in a browser and use Yomichan or similar, that’s a big big help for reading something that could be otherwise out of your reach.
Damn you are fast, I’m wondering if you’ll finish the story before I do
Thank you for your suggestions, あなたも殺人犯になれる! is already on my wishlist
I’m already a user of either ッツ or Mokuro alongside Yomitan, and at my current level I wouldn’t want to read without these crutches. I’ve been experimenting with the setup here for the last few days, and for now I’m really liking it. Also, since I have an old Kindle Paperwhite, I’m still able to convert Kindle books to epub
It was the part where the grandma went missing, so I was super intrigued and wanted to know what happens next. As the excitement dies down I’ll most likely slow down again.
Still in cooldown phase so quickly blasted through 桜井さんは気づいてほしい 4 | L15 to finish out the series. It’s not my favourite romcom for sure but it is by far the easiest and being able to knock out a volume in 25 minutes is extremely cool.
Read some more of the 本好きの下剋上第一部１ junior novel, so got another chapter in. Still slow going, though technically slightly faster than yesterday. I’m probably not going to do this every day and burn myself out on it like I did before Christmas, so will probably read a bit more tomorrow as it’s still the weekend then give it a back for a few days with something easier before coming back to it.
Also caught up on the two book clubs I’m in, finishing out the BBC with この美術部には問題がある！ and being back up to date on 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん。Apparently I’d missed a week somewhere else on the second one.
１月 １９日 
I’ve seen some of you guys mention these in passing, but, being a very lazy person, I ignored it and assumed it was something too difficult for me ahaha. Until now I’ve just been doing manual lookups of unknown words while reading pfft it’s so much easier to just hover with yomichan and continue reading 
Like when Erina is talking, when teachers were talking, when they were talking about cooking methods and why they did X and how it worked.
(I’m a serial re-reader and re-watcher, streaming often suck for that.)
１日２０月 
I bet you’ll see your reading speed increase a lot by the end of the book.
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