五月六日・Home Post
| Title | Today | Progress | |
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チョコっとちょこちゃん 第1巻 | 9 pages (1 chapter) | 100% |
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老女的少女ひなたちゃん | 15 pages (reread) | 53% |
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Sentence Patterns for JLPT N5 | 9 pages | 40% |
Now that I’ve finished ちょこちゃん I can say it was decidedly meh. Not going to go out of my way to get any later volumes, but if they happen to be free and I notice them maybe.
I also attempted to read a wikipedia article, but that ended up being more an exercise in saying sounds out loud than understanding how they fit together.
Oops, forgot to post yesterday!
May 5th!
Today I read chapter 5 of 老女的少女ひなたちゃん
May 6th!
Chapter 2 of とんがり帽子のアトリエ today. Absolutely loving it so far, even though it takes me ages to read.
| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
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| 2024-05-06 |  放浪息子８ |
 Manga |
 Chapter 58-60 70 Pages |
 0h40m |
Today’s reading was the first half of 放浪息子８. I watched episode 1 of the anime a while back, and if I recall correctly, this was actually where the anime started 
Sun May 5: 
Spring ep 2 started
Mon May 6: Spring ep 2 finished
Aw you can’t just say that and not drop a title for us!
For reading habits: Right now I’m using Satori Reader on my phone because it’s easy and convenient (and probably better than scrolling social media on the phone). Also the stories have built-in vocab and grammar lookup which is super handy.
7 May | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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擬似ハーレム５ | manga | 19 | 0 → 40% |
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テレワァク与太話 | manga | 30 | 60% → 100% (Complete)  |
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とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1 | manga | 26 | 50% (no change) |
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また、同じ夢を見ていた | book | 25 | 77% (no change) |
I’m referring to スーと鯛ちゃん。
5月7日 | Home post
Read a little bit before work, since I’m not sure whether I’ll have more time for reading later.
4/5 11 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた (finished week 12), 35 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ (read week 3), 12 pages ホリミヤ, aDoIJG ねばならない, に and に限らず
5/5 4 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた, 9 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (read week 10)
6/5 14 pages セーラー服と機関銃 (finished week 10), 19 pages Spy Family (read Mission 83), 11 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (finished volume 3), aDoIJG にほかならない and に限って
Sunday was a bad day due to bout of probable food poisoning. Still dragged myself diving which possibly wasn’t the best plan but went ok. I’m doing well on the manga side, catching up with books, making slow progress with the dictionary (while not really catching up).
I finished Kiyo in Kyoto a week early to have finished a volume and to reduce this week’s reading. I have a conference starting Saturday and social calendar will be quite full I think. Before that, I have three days on an island in Fiji.
7th may
renshuu book club picks updated so i read some of those, intermediate and challenge.
intermediate was a fairly simple short story about a gorilla who owns too many books and needs a solution (was okay, cute enough. full furigana) and challenge was a 50-ish pg manga about girls who make music and (major spoiler) coming to terms with the death of your partner. content warning for grief for that one. it was a bit confusing in places but it expressed its emotions pretty well. don’t know if it was intentionally written as yuri but there are Vibes. read the same author’s other work i could find, about a brother’s attempts to save his sister who’s trapped in a painting, and that was not as good, much more confusing.
today’s nhk article was this one, plus the entry on わけではない in aDoIJG.
May 7 | Home post
Another day at the Island 
! 3500 characters today.
Three Kingdoms : 3 (16-18/32)
セーラー服と機関銃 (82-89%)
May 5
Started reading バグ. It’s a book I saw recommended somewhere and the synopsis sounded interesting but I have no idea what to expect. Read up to 6% which is not bad at all for a first reading.
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really do any kanji writing practice except for being able to write the names of the books I’m reading at any given time so I can write them down in my tracking notebook. Going from having to write 傲慢と善良 to just バグ has been magical.
May 6
Read 1 chapter of ハイキュー!! and continued reading バグ (6% → 12%). It’s been fun reading this so far. The mistery is being set up, but I can feel a big contrast with the previous book, probably since this one is a lot shorter so things need to advance relatively fast, plus it’s definitely a different style of book. I have to say it’s a lot better for my reading motivation this way.
Home post // May 7 
・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (64%)
・ 拝啓見知らぬ旦那様、離婚していただきます〈下〉(41 → 50%)
The plot is changing and there are less of the suspicious scenes. Surprisingly, one of the characters has コミュ障 and a form of alexithymia.
Home Post | 
Study Log | 05月06-07日
| Resource | Progress | Visual |
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| Tadoku L3 Stories |
6/24 | ■■□□□□□□□□ 25% |
 NHK Articles |
5 | ■■■■■□□□□□ |
 Shirokuma Cafe |
8/25 | ■■■□□□□□□□32% |
 老女的少女ひなたちゃん１巻 |
5/10 | ■■■■■□□□□□ 50% |
 DoBJG |
11/33 | ■■■□□□□□□□ 33% |
 チーズスイートホーム１巻 |
20/20 | ■■■■■■■■■■ 100% |
| チーズスイートホーム２巻 |
10/18 → 18/18 | ■■■■■■■■■■ 100% |
Did more than I thought I would, I need to force myself to read the rest of them instead of buying another volume of chi
Today’s study log entry
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05月07日 | Type | Progress | |
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ハリーポッタと賢者の石 | prose | 32% → 33% |
After a few days of the bare minimum (watching youtube and reading the captions and counting that as reading practice) back to a bit of HP.
8 May | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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甘々と稲妻 2 | manga | 23 | 0 → 25% |
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擬似ハーレム５ | manga | 19 | 40% → 100% (complete) |
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とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1 | manga | 26 | 50% (no change) |
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また、同じ夢を見ていた | book | 25 | 77% (no change) |
8th may
back to ガリレオ and most of the way through case 1 now, one more push and i’ll definitely be done. pretty sure i’ve got a good idea of the how of this one, just waiting for clarification of why. the banter between 草薙 and 湯川 is good fun.
today’s nhk article was this one (nandenan article), plus the entries on わけがない and わけにはいかない
中瓶 - medium-sized bottle (usu. of beer)
宙吊り - hanging in midair, suspended in midair
孫請け - sub-sub contractor. as part of a pun with 曾孫請け as like sub-sub-sub contractor
頭を振る - to shake one’s head (in denial)
May 7
Read 1 chapter of ハイキュー!! and some more バグ (12% → 17%). I’m amazed at how fast I’m getting through this book considering I’m not dedicating that much time to it (busy times), and I stopped reading because I had to sleep, not because I got tired of reading so that’s a good sign.
Tues May 7: does not exist (srsly I just forgot with everything going on)
Wed May 8: Spring ep 3 started completed, amusingly the first word of the chapter was one I’d just reviewed a few minutes earlier (最初).
Thanks! Adding that to the “to read eventually” list.
Sounds like a fun week. Safe travels!
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