📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2026 🎃🧙‍♀️

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:books: :books: Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Fall 2026 Edition! :jack_o_lantern: :woman_mage:

Once again it’s time for the seasons to change. May we all enjoy some beautiful mild weather this time.

What is this thread?

This is a challenge to read every day for 2 months in Japanese. It’s alright to start late and if you fall off, please don’t be too hard on yourself. So long as you read something in Japanese during the challenge, please consider it a partial success rather than a failure. And if you read every day of the challenge, please consider it a complete success. The only real rule is to try to read every day in Japanese for 2 months. You are welcome to track your reading however you like.

Who is this challenge for?

As @Redglare has said:

This is a thread for people who:
:bookmark: want to spend time reading a bunch
:bookmark: want to improve their reading speed and comprehension
:bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress
:bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of reading every day for two or so months :books: :books:

To add onto that, this is also a thread for people who want to track or talk about their reading too. If you’d like a computer to do most of your tracking, please check out Natively.

When is this challenge?

Time frame: October 1 - November 30

Again, late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through December and some may give some updates even later. It’s all good! You can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you. Personally, I usually extend my reading into the 3rd month since I find these challenges help me reach my annual reading goals.

Do we have to read forever?

While the name of the challenge is “Read Every Day,” you may have noticed that it also has a season attached. That’s because each challenge only lasts 2 months. Forever would be a long commitment. By having clear start and end dates, it becomes a much more manageable goal. At the end of the challenge, please consider what worked or didn’t work for you. Did you have fun? Then you can take a break or decide to keep going.

Also, please don’t worry about starting late or not completing the challenge! Life happens. This is an open opportunity for everyone who wants to set some reading goals. Everyone is welcome.

What should we read?

As @windupbird has said

Your reading materials can be whatever you want, be it manga, light novels, books, visual novels, magazines, graded readers, satori reader, Japanese webpages/blogs, or Japanese games - you name it, anything goes as long as it is something in Japanese :jp: :durtle_the_explorer: “Reading” can be interpreted creatively, if that helps keep you motivated - for example, some people have counted reading Japanese subtitles as reading some days. In general, we are a pretty flexible and forgiving bunch :wink:

Need help finding something to read? Check these threads out!

The News Reading Challenge - folks typically read the easy NHK article of the day or other similar articles from various apps

The "news reading" challenge 🗞

The Immersion portion of this thread has a lot of great resources
The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List!

Reading the same book with others can be pretty motivating. It’s also easier to ask about grammar or vocab, so how about joining a book club? If you don’t want to join, you could always take it as a recommended book instead. A list of book clubs can be found here:
Master List of Book Clubs

Where does this challenge come from?

Back in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the great idea of a “Read Every Day” challenge, in which participants challenged themselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months. Since then and until winter 2024, @Redglare and @windupbird have hosted this challenge every season. Thanks to them, many of us have improved our Japanese and lifestyles! You might notice that I am neither a bird nor glare. I offered to take over the challenge since they’re quite busy (お疲れ様！), but of course they’re welcome to take it back at any time if they want to. I’ll do my best to keep up the encouragement!

Please help us keep this a positive, encouraging, and fun space! Please feel free to bribe encourage fellow participants with cute pet and animal photos or recipes even.

Archive of Past Challenge Threads

Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella:
Read every day challenge - Fall 2021 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon:
Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:
Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 :cherry_blossom: :seedling:
Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 :beach_umbrella: :sunny:
Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf:
Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:
Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 :cherry_blossom::tulip::blossom:
Read every day challenge - Summer 2023 :sunglasses::sunny:
Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 :scarf: :fallen_leaf: :maple_leaf:
Read every day challenge - Winter 2024 :bamboo: :snowman_with_snow: :evergreen_tree:
Read every day challenge - Spring 2024 :cherry_blossom: :dango: :seedling:
:books: :books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2024 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon: :cricket_bat_and_ball:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2024 :maple_leaf::chestnut::apple:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2025 :snake::frog:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2025 :milky_way: :tanabata_tree:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2025 :moon_viewing_ceremony::full_moon:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Winter 2026 :sunrise::bell:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2026 :school: :teacher:
:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2026 :ocean: :mountain:

What do the emoji in the title mean?

This Season's Emoji Explanation

This fall’s emoji are Halloween themed because I miss pumpkins.

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Happy reading!

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Participants

Feel free to add your username to the list! Please keep it alphabetical.

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Athenarama Oct 4
DIO-Berry Oct 1 :thinking:
equant Oct 2 0
fcr 十月一日 :avocado:
feralfuton １０月１日 :alien:
froggywhiskers 1st Oct :frog:
gigazol １０月１日 :jack_o_lantern:
Kelsyy October 1st :dog_face:
Lisaveeta 10月1日 ┐(^-^;)┌さぁ・・？
VirusVisal 10月１日 ＼⁠(⁠^⁠o⁠^⁠)⁠／
Weeping Weeb 1st Oct :yellow_heart:
Raemn Oct 1 :frog:
slightly_better_than Oct 1 :bat:
SpicyWolf 10月1日 :ogre:
tekke 10月 1日 :distorted_face:
thorn_laurel 10月 1日 :fallen_leaf:
torkey １０月一日 :book:
trachea 10月1日 1
x140hu4 10月1日
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:dress: 女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い 1 start - 32

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Keeping up this challenge last winter really helped in reading a lot of stuff outside of book clubs, I fell off tracking things during spring and summer so hopefully I can do better this time.
Really excited to participate again and hopefully put a bit of a dent on my (ever growing) reading list!

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:cat_face: DIO-Berry Home Post :jack_o_lantern:

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Current streak: from July 20th, 2026

Past Challenges

This time, I want to read as much as possible. It’d be great if life could be less dramatic.

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We’ll be rooting for you! Happy reading!!

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(◕ᆺ◕) YandrosTheSane's Lair (◕̣︿◕̣)

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For motivation purposes in Fall I’m gonna include days with 90+ sentences reviewed as a [x]reading day since it does translate by more than one hour of sentence parsing. Not postingenough made me lazier that I could have.

And I’ll mark a new content edge progress day by a pretty :white_check_mark:…

Now I’d like to have at least one :white_check_mark: per week.

Previous Challenges

📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2026 ⛰ 🌊 - #33 by YandrosTheSane

NEW CHALLENGE: Grammar centered reread, starting back from first page.

:butterfly: Book Vocab Edge (pages) Grammar Edge (chars)
:knife: ひぐらしのなく頃に 第一話 鬼隠し編 (上) 184/328 (58%) 0/129850 (0.0%)

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I’m in! I forget to update my post in the summer thread, but I have been reading every day since June 1st. Not going to stop now!

Currenly reading:
凜として弓を引くvolume 1

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Fall challenge time already… This year has disappeared so fast!

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Made the post a wiki!

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Yesss new reading! Though it feels too early for us to already be going into the Autumn challenge, everything needs to slow down :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Thanks for continuing being our reading challenge host @DIO-Berry !!

I don’t really use my home post but as a home-post-not-home-post… I’ll use this as the introductory post, so here’s my Natively.

As for what I’m aiming for this time around: for this challenge I’m looking forward to starting off with the Halloween Book Club :jack_o_lantern:

After that it’ll most likely be more RanpoRanpoRanpo, but I do have some other authors I’ve been wanting to check out the works of, so we will see what comes around in November!

Looking forward to reading with everyone again :books: :raccoon:

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Thank you!

Hell yeah! I love seeing all your takes

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:fallen_leaf: :jack_o_lantern: :moon_cake:

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:books: natively :books:

:moon_viewing_ceremony: Book Pages :check_mark: ?
:candle: 落穴と振子 1 –
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After a year of not reading, and barely studying Japanese (despite living and working here) I started 修学旅行で仲良くないグループに入りました 2. I spent 50 minutes reading a few pages then I read the same amount of pages in English and took about 5 minutes. :sweat_smile: I think since this may be my last year in Japan, my motivation has dwindled so much so I only study kanji occassionaly. Maybe wanting to know what happens before the live drama season 2 comes out will motivate me to get back into things. (We will see).

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So excited to (hopefully) being able to participate this year! I have been seeing these challenges pass by me for years now, but this time it looks like life might finally not get in the way for once and allow me to do the challenge.

Though I will have to relearn some of the basic grammar I have been neglecting for months now :sweat_smile:.

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:fallen_leaf: pocketcalamity’s home post :fallen_leaf:

:books: natively profile :books:

manga - full volumes

status name natively
lvl		 type pages time
85% :upside_down_face: 裏世界ピクニック１ 25 manga 243 0hr00min
43% :magnifying_glass_tilted_right: 或いは、私の名探偵 ?? manga 78 0hr00min
25% :droplet: アリア１ 22 manga 81 0hr00min
30% :rainbow: はなにあらし２ 19 manga 28 0hr00min

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第1話 :sleeping_face: 真夜中に愛してよ ?? manga
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第2話 :crescent_moon: 今夜、エーテルで待ち合わせ ?? manga
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16% :woman_zombie: 明日の世界で星は煌めく1 27 light novel 13010 0hr00min
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Goals and Thoughts

I’ve read every day of the year so far and want to keep that momentum going! My reading list will depend on where the summer challenge ends, so I’ll update this post then.

Previous Challenges

:snowflake: Winter 26
:cherry_blossom: Spring 26
:sunflower: Summer 26

See y’all on day one!

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:books: Froggy’s Home Post :hot_beverage:

Hello everyone! Who’s ready for some cosy autumnal reading?

I really felt like I made some good progress thanks to the previous challenge. I set up a regular grammar study routine and picked up some good tips from this community for how to challenge myself with reading without overly relying on looking things up. So it’s really a no brainer to sign up for a second go around!

My main goal for this seasons challenge is consistency, and this time I want to not stop after 2 months but to carry on for the full three. This probably means being more specific about when I read (not always leaving it until last thing in the evening!) so while I’m working that out I’m not gonna be toooo strict about how much I read each day, but aiming for 30mins daily will probably be a nice general benchmark.

:jack_o_lantern: 10月 :jack_o_lantern:
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My Natively
Summer 2026 Challenge :mountain: :ocean:
Good luck and happy reading everyone!

:jack_o_lantern: :woman_mage:

:frog: Title Type Start Finish Tracker
:bear: :black_bird: クマとカラス Manga 1/10 - 46/182
:broom: ふらいんぐうぃっち 5 Manga 4/10 - 106/164
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I won’t be doing the check boxes this time around because remembering to check it off here usually makes me fail more than actually reading daily lol, but I’ll try to do updates!

My usual goal is a chapter a day so let’s continue!

Finished:

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Lisaveeta’s Home Page

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Looking forward to another reading challenge! Thanks again @DIO-Berry for hosting.

今、これ読んでる

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読了

かがみの弧城

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Jamie’s Home Post :fallen_leaf: :jack_o_lantern:
During the summer challenge I fell off because I had to change my schedule due to school. But now that I’ve got the hang of it and bought some new books from Kinokuniya, I’m ready for this challenge!

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