May 30 | Home post
6000 characters from Island 
today, and another bad ending. Really curious to see where this will all end!
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5月29-30日 | Home post
Yesterday I worked a 12h shift and didn’t update here, but I finished Chapter 7 of また、同じ夢を見ていた. Today was not a good reading day either, I was distracted by other tasks.
5月29日
- また、同じ夢を見ていた (58.12 → 60.34%)
5月30日
- また、同じ夢を見ていた (60.34 → 61.72%)
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Home post // May 30 
I feel like I read more than I skimmed the rest of Honzuki 16. My goodness, did I get impatient at the end with the last short story. Anyway! Tomorrow is finally time for Honzuki 17, from now I can count pages and lookups 
For the occasion, I switched over from yomichan to yomitan to get the AnkiConnect function to work. While reading on PC, I plan on adding all lookups as a way to count them, while on phone there’s a history list in my dictionary, so now I won’t have to depend on my phone dictionary anymore as the sole way of counting lookups.
Pure guesstimate: I think it’s going to take me at least 4 days to complete the book and I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it takes me less than that.
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任務完了! 
vocabulary learnt over the course of the challenge
Managed to read an episode of “The Jam Maker” for 60 out of 61 days (I was out hiking with friends and then enjoying a floating sauna with same friends on the day I missed - did WK but forgot about the reading challenge)
Thanks everyone and @DIO-Berry in particular. Got me finally using my Satori Reader subscription every day - initially, when I first got my subscription, I got bogged down in its SRS which was just too much SRS together with WK for me so I stopped using it. This reading challenge liberated me from that self-imposed prison & I’m real enjoying SR now.
Will continue to read an episode of a SR story through June. Anyone got any recommendations?
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2024-05-30
Previous
| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
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| 2024-05-30 |  とある科学の超電磁砲 1 |
 Manga |
 1 Chapters 40 Pages |
 0h25m |
With CCS 1 finished, I decided to start a new manga, with the first volume of Railgun. It’s definitely the hardest manga I’ve tried yet. The scans bookwalker have are poor, but the biggest problem is how much of the vocab so far is taking some English fantasy term like pyrokineticist, rendering that in katakana for the reading, and then picking some arbitrary kanji to go with it.
The past anime discussions also told me that pervy-Kuroko was an anime invention. The manga so far indicates otherwise
Overall, I’ll probably finish out this volume but may give it a break before going onto volume 2. Also since the challenge is wrapping up. I think in June my focus is going to be on volume 2 of the bookwalker junior novel, and 13 sentinels. Like the listening thread, I might drop to weekly updates here for the challenge bonus time, since I expect “Another 30 minutes of 13 sentinels” might get boring as an update after a while 
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31 May | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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ダンジョン飯７ | manga | 29 | 82% → 91% |
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四つ子ぐらし 1 ひみつの姉妹生活、スタート! | children’s book | 23 | 41% (no change) |
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また、同じ夢を見ていた | book | 25 | 90% (no change) |
- Half a ダン飯 chapter, will try and finish this one today. It feels longer than usual, probably because the first half was a narrated story so had a few more terms I didn’t recognise at first blush. Second half is more cooking so hopefully will be easy enough to read while I’m on shift.
- If I have time will try and read a bit more 四つ子.
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May 31 | Home post
Last day of the month, and I managed to read every day for 2 months. Some days just a little, some days more, but I read every day. I never would have done so without this challenge! Now I just have to keep going…
Today’s reading so far was 3000 characters from Island I may read more later today, but I wanted to post now just to be sure that I didn’t forget!
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31st may
finished the 解説 (which, uh, wasn’t great) of ガリレオ and i finished the whole book! wasn’t expecting to finish two whole books this challenge so i’m pretty happy with how this all turned out! as with any short story collection there were highs and lows, high points for me were cases 1, 2 and 4 (ish, was a bit soap opera-y), with 3 and 5 being a bit mid. would definitely read more of this series and more by the author! wonder what the more long-form stuff is like
also read the yuri comic jintor posted the other day (cute!) and a separate, also cute yuri comic here.
today’s nhk article was this one (nandenan article), plus the entries on あくまでも and あながち～ない in aDoAJG
words that stood out
正統 - orthodox, legitimate, traditional
興味津々 - very interesting, having a keen interest in
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Happy final hours of the main challenge! Please feel free to continue through June! I’ll set up the summer challenge in about 2 weeks
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May 31st!
Chapter 9 of 老女的少女ひなたちゃん today, finishing off Volume 1.
I’ve enjoyed reading this, but I don’t think I’m going to join the offshoot club if there is one because I’m starting a new job on Monday so I don’t want to overstretch myself with clubs right now. I’m adding it to my list of things to return to later when I have some free time though.
End of Challenge Summary: 100% 
Books Completed
- Shadows House - Volume 16
- The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy At All - Volume 1-2
- When Will Ayumu Make His Move? - Volume 1
- Teasing Master Takagi-san - Volume 17
- Witch Hat Atelier - Volume 1
- Granny Girl Hinata-chan - Volume 1
I can’t believe how fast this year is speeding past!
Thats 17 volumes so far this year, which I’m pretty pleased with. Though I expect my pace will slow a little now, since for me, the end of this challenge also marks another ending.
After quitting my terribly stressful job at the end of last year I decided to give myself 6 months to rest and recover before starting a new job, but then I got offered a really great opportunity, so I’m starting in my new position on Monday, a month earlier than originally planned. I’m equal parts excited and anxious, so please wish me luck!
I’ll still be hanging around for the bonus month of the challenge during June - though I may be posting a little less than usual.
As always big thanks to @DIO-Berry for organizing the thread, and to everyone else who is reading, posting, cheerleading, and making recommendations. These threads are my favourite little corner of the internet - thanks for making it so cosy.
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5月31日 (金)
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Three Kingdoms : 6 (16-19/19) + 7 (1/18) -
ヒラヒラヒヒル
First choice. How was the first case, sensei?
Words of the day
- とまれ = in any case (in the beginning of a sentence). From ともあれ.
- 抱水クロラール = chloral hydrate. Well, bearing water.
- 居住性 = liveability. Somewhat like 住心地 or 居心地.
- 寝具 = bedding. Like bedclothes and pillows.
- 一本立ち = (becoming) independent. Like 独り立ち or 独立.
- 既往歴 = medical history
- 框 = doorframe; window frame
- 木戸 = wooden door; entrance
- 老夫婦 = elderly couple
- 継ぎ = patch (on a clothing)
- 姪 = a niece. Say, 姪っ子. Compare with 甥 / 甥っ子.
- 大八車 = a two-wheeled wooden man-pulled handcart. Said to be able to carry as much as 8 persons.
- 縁日 = festival day
- 栄養素 = nutrient
- 年長 = senior. More like 年上, rather than 長年.
- 冬枯れ = withering in winter
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五月三十一日・Home Post
| Title | Today | Progress | |
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しろくまカフェ | 2 chapters | 6% |
Started this with the rerun book club. So far it’s kinda meh.
Summary of what I read during this challenge:
| Title | From | To | |
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スーと鯛ちゃん | 0% | 100% |
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チョコっとちょこちゃん | 26% | 100% |
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Reading for JLPT N5 | 82% | 100% |
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Sentence Patterns for JLPT N5 | 0% | 62% |
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Japanese Short Stories for Beginners | 0% | 30% |
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老女的少女ひなたちゃん | 17% | 84% |
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にゃんにゃん探偵団 | 20% | 46% |
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Grammar for JLPT N5 | 0% | 100% |
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レンタルおにいちゃん | 13% | 33% |
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薬屋のひとりごと | 0% | 2% |
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葬送のフリーレン | 0% | 47% |
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花さかじいさん | 0% | 100% |
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スーと鯛ちゃん 2 | 0% | 12% |
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F 落第生 | 0% | 3% |
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しろくまカフェ | 0% | 6% |
Though with both novels it should be less than 1% for them both due to title pages and stuff. I also read 9 free Tadoku books.
I am quite happy with having finished 14 books and with the progress I’ve made on those I haven’t yet finished.
I will not be continuing the challenge into June. Mostly because I need to focus on listening a bit more, but I’m also not going to stop reading. And I’d like to join the summer challenge.
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home post
2024年5月31日
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Title | Read today | Currently at | Notes |
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Kona’s Big Adventure 2 | 2 episodes | 18/88 | — |
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ISLAND | 29k | 779.000 char | 187 new words |
A small anecdote that shows one of the benefits of reading a Visual Novel.
Today one character said 彼はXの僕だ (X is a female character from the VN, her name is not important for the anecdote). Without the voice acting, I would have probably read 僕 as ぼく, but they said it しもべ. Didn’t know that word (servant), it was quite down on my list of suggestions from Yomichan so not sure that I would have guessed it without hearing it even from the context, so yay for voice acting!
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It seems I forgot posting in this thread I only missed reading one day this year. I was pretty busy with a lot of things and I am also studying for the JLPT N1 but I am not sure if I will ever pass it.
My backlog is getting smaller and smaller by the day I probably should buy some books soon. Lol I totally forgot the Higurashi visual novel club on natively I didn’t even start reading yet.
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5月31日 | Home post
Final day of the Spring 2024 Challenge! Thank you @DIO-Berry for running the thread, and to everyone who participated. I would never have read this much if it weren’t for this challenge. I will continue posting into June, but for those who will take next month off, see you in the Summer 2024 Challenge!
- また、同じ夢を見ていた (61.72 → 66.88%)
- DoBJG: そして; すぎる; すきだ; 少ない (67%)
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5月 31日
It’s the end of May already?! 
The spring reading challenges have so far been my favorite both this year and last, I think the emergence of the sun from behind wintry clouds is really the most powerful motivator to reach my goals. I wish I’d had the time to work even harder on my reading habit this month, but between April and May I think I’m happy with my results.
Spring Review
Natively Stats
Pages read: 1,348
Primary level range: L24-26
Primary types: April - manga, May - non-fiction
Highest level: 鋼の錬金術師 L31
Lowest level: ハピネス L17
| Currently Reading | Type | Status | |
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四月は君の嘘 Vol. 1 | Manga | 38% |
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Try! N2 改訂版 | JLPT | 30% |
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NARUTO ナルト Vol. 3 | Manga | 11% |
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オオカミちゃん Vol. 2 | Manga | 10% |
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とんがり帽子 Vol. 2 | Manga | 6% |
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すずめの戸締まり | Novel | 4% |
| Completed in Challenge |
Type | Date | |
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今日もお疲れさま! 超回復めし | Cookbook | May 9 |
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とんがり帽子 Vol. 2 | Manga | Apr 26 |
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新にほんご 500問 N2 | JLPT | Apr 24 |
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ハピネス Vol. 1 | Manga | Apr 23 |
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気になってる人 Vol. 2 | Manga | Apr 18 |
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NARUTO ナルト Vol. 2 | Manga | Apr 17 |
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鋼の錬金術師 Vol. 1 | Manga | Apr 8 |
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ありす19th Vol. 1 | Manga | Apr 3 |
See you all in summer!! 
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Home post // May 31
・本好きの下剋上 17 (0 → 6%)
Today was busy, so I didn’t get to spend a lot of time on reading. I’ll continue reading in June! 
Lookups (11)
上擦る・うわずる
体よく・ていよく
保身・ほしん
傅く・かしずく
尊ぶ・とうとぶ
末娘・すえむすめ
橋渡し・はしわたし
盛りだくさん・もりだくさん
純粋・じゅんすい
落ち目・おちめ
長・おさ
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Saturday, June 1st: So I’m continuing through June having finished the official challenge period and have started on a new SR story: Kiki-mimi Radio (harder version).
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2024-06-01T01:44:00Z
Today is the last day of the official reading challenge. I’ve read every day for the last two months and managed to finish 2 ½ volumes of manga. So now I have a 9-month streak going. This challenge I started 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪！ and 俺物語. I’m now halfway through 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪！２ having finished volume 1’s for the above-mentioned series. I seemed to have continued the trend of picking wordy manga to read for the challenges this year. There’s not much handwriting in what I’ve read so far, though. Which is a good thing but on the other hand, once or twice I came across a kanji with too many strokes and the digital scan couldn’t handle it when I zoomed in to try to read (recognise the shape of) it.
私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪！
I couldn’t recognise all the words but I got the gist of it. I also own this in English and have watched the anime so I’m familiar with the story. The early volumes were a bit more cringe-y than I remember it being. (Or it might just be that it’s been 10 years since I first read this manga in English and I’m now almost 2 decades older than the protagonist rather than one.)
俺物語
Just as sweet as I remember even though it has problematic romance tropes in the beginning e.g. stalking is love, sexual assault is comedic between bros etc.. Fortunately, it is addressed though not comprehensively. Well, it is only the first volume and my memory of the anime shows that it didn’t gloss over the issues that come up in a teenage romance. This is one where I’ve only watched the anime. I haven’t read any of the manga (not even fansubs) so it may be that the issues were treated differently in the anime than in the manga. 
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