📚📚 Read Every Day Challenge - Winter 2024 🎍☃🌲

:cherry_blossom: March 21 :frog:

I started reading Women’s Clothing :dress: with the Natively BL book club, but I’m not feeling it so far. The writing style and constructed awkwardness just aren’t my cup of tea.

I wanted to read more, but I felt like I was hit with sleepy dust last night lmao

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22 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:rock: ダンジョン飯5 manga 29 0 → 17%
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 64% (no change)
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 39% (no change)
  • Starting Dungeon Meshi 5, doing some backend file management cleanup and leaving instructions for my future self on how to do shit because I am inevitably going to forget
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Mar 22, Fri of Week 12 of Q1 2024

  • DIJG : というのは ~ことだ

  • ぼぎわんが来る (96-100%)

  • 逆転裁判 1 Case 3

Words of the day
  • ほじくり(かえ)す = to dig up an old story. From ほじくる / ほじる.
  • もみ()す = to hush up; to suppress
  • いい気味(きみ) = it serves you right. Somewhat like ざまあみろ.
  • 目覚(めざ)ましい = striking; conspicuous; brilliant. A little different from 目覚(めざ)まし時計(どけい), but still, ()()ます.
  • ()(つか)えなければ = if it’s alright to do. ()(つか)える is to hinder, like 支障(ししょう), so if not (かま)う.
  • (ねこ)(ひたい) :cat: = (of just like) a small area, like a plot of land
  • 切磋琢磨(せっさたくま) = mutual encouragement, e.g. rivalry between classmates :people_wrestling:

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:house: home post :house:
:calendar: 2024年3月22日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Secret 2 episodes 34/98
:desert_island: ISLAND 5k 360.000 char 32 new words

Today in my “100 things you don’t know about Japan and Japanese people” book, I learned about サザエさん.
Looked it up here on the WK community to see if someone here knew about it and found a quote from you @Redglare:

So it’s actually much more than a manga. It’s a series that has a new episode EVERY WEEK since 1969.

Source:

The episodes come out on Sunday evenings, so guess what a Blue Monday is called in Japanese!

Found some episodes on youtube, it’s actually pretty nice for listening practice:

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Whoa, “verdens mest standhaftige” :eyes: The world’s most?! That’s crazy :smiley:

To think there’s an ongoing tv-series older than my mom… That’s crazy. Imagine growing up with a tv show and it’s still going in your 50s.

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Haha that’s totally going to happen, probably with Pokemon for example!

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:cherry_blossom: :teapot: Home post and thread

3月22日金曜日

:revolving_hearts: 花野井くんと恋の病, A condition called love vol. 3, until the end.
So… It’s my 4th manga in japanese this year :tada:
Executing Mokuro to read the next volume soon^^ The evolution of the characters is good, I’m curious to see what happens next, now :slightly_smiling_face:

Since yesterday, I’ve begun chapter 2 of :hibiscus: 薬屋のひとりごと volume 11. Hopefully I’ll read a little bit more tonight.

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:bookmark: Home post // March 22 :snowman_with_snow: :books:

・わたしの幸せな結婚 8 (17% → 34%)

I’ve missed this series, it’s so easy to read without wanting a break.

I wrote this as a joke, but turns out Kiyoka’s backstory takes up a substantial part of the book, haha. We’ve yet to see Miyo.

Edit: I forgot to mention while reading Kusuriya no hitorigoto 11, there was finally another of those gairaigo furigana kanji words at the end of the book. This series is full of those, but it’s been a while since the previous one, so it was fun to one again.

机仕事デスクワーク

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2024-03-21 — 2024-03-22

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-03-22 :books: 本好きの下剋上第一部5 :green_book: Manga :arrow_forward: Chapter 23-24.5
:page_facing_up: 71 pages
:hourglass: 30m
2024-03-21 :gun: Persona 3 Reload :video_game: RPG :arrow_forward: 4/29 :hourglass: 1h00m

Double entry for today. I took my Steam deck with me for my trip away and got some Persona 3 Reload in. Today meanwhile, I finished up the manga portion of 本好きの下剋上5 leaving just the short story portion to go through for this volume.

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Hi everyone, I’m hoping some of you may help me with this page. I’m reading しろくまカフェ、bis 1. I’ve combed through the reading club material and while I understand the words, I am not understanding what Panda-san is trying to say here? For context: He just told Shirokuma-san that he is on a diet and not eating sugar.

無党派 (むとうは) - political independent / independent voter
武闘 (ぶとう) - armed struggle
未踏 (みとう) - unexplored
踏破 (とうは) - traveling on foot

破 (は) - not sure what this means behind all the above words.

Is he saying these are the struggles of going sugar-free? Please help :laughing: I’m kind of thinking this is a play on words about something :smiley: Thank you!

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Just sound play of 無糖(むとう)()? Maybe it is hard to understand when spoken?

The last word is ()~ + 踏破(とうは). Otherwise, most other words are ~().

TIL about カメハメハ. Like why Hawaii?

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Like polv said,

It’s a recurring joke form in this series, so you’ll see this sort of set-up and layout quite a bit. It’s just using a bunch of words that sound similar. If the panels seem kinda non sequitur, it’s because they are :laughing: They aren’t the particular struggles of going sugar free or anything

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23 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:rock: ダンジョン飯5 manga 29 17% → 30%
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 64% (no change)
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 39% (no change)
  • Another chapter of Dungeon Meshi 5.
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and here I was going further than the meaning :smiley: Thanks @javerend

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yea, no clue about the Hawaii either, but thanks for your input @polv sound play sounds like it makes sense :smiley:

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Mar 23, Sat of Week 12 of Q1 2024

  • DEATH NOTE Vol.12 Ch.105

  • DIJG : というと

  • NHKにようこそ (0-7%)

  • 逆転裁判 1 Case 3 end

Police to the rescue!

Words of the day
  • ウォッカ = vodka :champagne:. Typed wokka in the Romaji input IME.
  • あごで使(つか)う = to set someone to work in an arrogant fashion. Also, (あご)をしゃくる
  • 一役買(ひとやくか)う = to take a role in the matter
  • 蜜月(みつげつ) = honeymoon / close-intimate relationship
  • (だい)ブレイク = a big hit :sparkles:. The “break” comes from “breakthrough”.
  • 百歩譲(ひゃっぽゆず)って = even if that were true; even if your argument is true… I can still argue further.

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3月16-22日 | Home post

  • 夜カフェ 1 (73.66% → 87.93%)

This week: continued to read every day; read 2 chapters of 夜カフェ (11 and 12), so more or less the same amount as last week. I’m feeling like reading some manga again, but I’ll probably finish this book next week befone getting started on something else.

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:house: home post :house::calendar: 2024年3月23日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Secret 2 episodes 36/98
:desert_island: ISLAND 10k 370.000 char 48 new words
:chess_pawn: それでも歩は寄せてくる volume 17 Finishes the series!
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:cherry_blossom: :teapot: home post (and thread)

3月23日土曜日

:hibiscus: 薬屋のひとりごと volume 11, chapter 3, 5 pages.
I’m going slowly but I feel like I understand most of it despite my low level (I can even laugh at some of Maomao thoughts, so I think it’s a good sign ^^)

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:bookmark: Home post // March 23 :snowman_with_snow: :books:

・わたしの幸せな結婚 8 (34% → 45%)

Iyoiyo Miyo no deban? :eyes: Kiyo’s long flashback end. Yokatta yo, nagakute mo :ok_hand:

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