22nd april 
nice amount of progress on everything! i removed the isekai syosetsu from my table cos i wasn’t reading it and then when i did actually go back to it today, i realised i didn’t want to read it anymore 
| emoji | book | pages read |
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日本語間違い探し | 203-207 |
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龍が如く８ | some plot, some minigames, including the chat one which has a lot of reading |
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マスカレード・ホテル | 287-300 |
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kimi ni todoke vol 1 | 69-121 |
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すばらしきこのせかい | x |
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priory of the orange tree | 206-253 |
today’s nhk article was this one (pencils)
18/4 3 pages 明日の世界で星は煌めく, 17 pages 銀の匙 (read week 4), aDoAJG からなる
19/4 77 pages 約束のネバーランド (read chapters 24-27, finishing volume 3 and starting next)
20/4 17 pages 明日の世界で星は煌めく (finished book), 32 pages Nana (finished week 5, started next), 24 pages ふたつのスピカ (read week 5), aDoAJG からして
21/4 20 pages Nana (finished volume), 21 pages Spy Family manga (read mission 105), 18 pages 10 minute scary stories (read week 7), aDoAJG からには
Travelling days were good for reading. May have slightly overdone it with 約束のネバーランド the other day. Back at work today 
＊４月２１日＊
・21 pages of 震える天秤, reading through ch 7 and leaving off on pg 82
Today, for the first time, I was actually able to read 報われる smoothly, without having to look up its reading (or meaning, for that matter). I don’t even remember when the last time I saw it was.
御社 (おんしゃ) [n.] your company
クロ [n.] guilt; guilty person. This is the same くろ as 黒.
April 22nd
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Book | Pages |
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すべてがFになる The Perfect Insider - L33 Novel | pg.280 - pg.300 |
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六人の噓つきな大学生 - L35 Novel | pg.185 |
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ひぐらしのなく頃に奉 鬼隠し編 - VN | end of ch.7, ch.8+9 - 2hrs 11 mins, 31.3k chs. |
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赤と青とエスキース - L32 Novel | pg.10 |
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君がくれた七日間の余命カレンダー - L(~30?) Novel | pg.28 |
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木曜日にはココアを - L28 Novel | pg.24 |
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思い出が消えないうちに - L27 Novel | pg.90 |
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アオのハコ 2 - L21 Manga | pg.40 - pg.190 finished  |
More reading than listening today.
ひぐらし picking up steam… I do love a good mystery. These last few chapters have been back down to normal length. I’ve heard inklings of what’s going to happen soon, but I don’t know details. I read a lot of it today, which I was planning to do yesterday, but さっぱり忘れちゃった. Really getting gripping.
Also a chunk of すべてがFになる, and some アオのハコ. One more volume of this one is all that I have for the moment.
where does one buy a japanese manga 
unless I go to a bookstore in nyc or boston..?
２０２５年４月２２日(火)
今日はチーズスイートホームの１３１章から１３２章を読みました。それから、「１０分で読めるこわい話」を読みました。
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Book | Pages |
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チーズスイートホーム８ | 19 - 35 |
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１０分で読めるこわい話 | 58 - 64 |
If you’re ok with a digital copy, you can get them on bookwalker.
I order from Amazon Japan.
April 22
A lot of reading today! This week’s reading for the サバイバル・ゲーム! club and the Silver Spoon club, plus a little Seabed VN. The more I read Seabed the more I want to continue reading!
Based on you mentioning NYC I’m guessing you’re in the US? Aside from buying in person at bookstores in NYC like you mentioned, two other places I’ve used are eBay and Kinokuniya
eBay sometimes has what you’re looking for at a good price, especially if you’re buying a whole set (for example, it’s very easy to find all of Yotsuba for about $50 on eBay)
And Kinokuniya has in person stores (one in NYC), but also online shopping! I believe if you spend over $50 you get free shipping
yes, I live in connecticut, usa. only a 2h/2h 30m drive from both boston and nyc
ah, so if I go to nyc, kinokuniya has Japanese manga? I mean I don’t mind ordering online but its just different being able to browse other eng/jp mangas in person!
im guessing ebay is a lot cheaper than Amazon but I haven’t really order things from eBay so I don’t know how legit or not sellers can/cant be
22th April 
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Book | Pages |
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あの子の子ども 4 | 1 - 145 |
On to Volume 4 now! I am not breezing through it anymore since some vocabulary has become more complex - many big words thrown around - but still lot’s of fun. Hope to finish this volume tomorrow and maybe start reading some more 世界から猫が消えたなら again, but we will see.
Favorite Word today:
垢 ・ あか ・ dirt; filth (but also account apparently)
Finished Chapter 71 and Chapter 72 of デスノート 
It went pretty well today. I might read some more later.
Kinokuniya—at least Kinokuniya US—is very expensive though. The books are marked up by quite a bit. If you can navigate the JP site, I’d use that; they do ship to the US and even with shipping it’s still cheaper than their US site. I’m pretty sure it has a bigger selection, too.
Otherwise, CDJapan is good. They regularly have coupons and bonus point promotions as well. They’ll also do proxy shipping, and while you won’t earn points from proxy items, you can still redeem points on them.
I was going to say that, for physical stores, Half Price Books will sometimes have Japanese books in their foreign language section (although the “half price or less” doesn’t apply to them, and while some books are still reasonably priced, others are not. But I have found something that interested me there but bought it cheaper online before), but it doesn’t look like they have any near you.
seconding all the other sites mentioned. mandarake is also good, especially for manga sets, and i order from surugaya fairly often. the prices are marked up slightly but they’re in yen (so it currently works out as cheaper overall) and they regularly do free shipping promotions (two a month? roughly?)
my one gripe is they use machine translation for the names of products tho so sometimes you have to think outside the box to find what you want. mandarake also use MT but they also have a jp website option which makes things a lot easier
happy reading!
Surugaya lets you search using Japanese, but I found it’s not very reliable. There were some things I could find by romanizing, translating, or using the original Japanese, but not always all three. I haven’t had that problem with either Mandarake or CDJapan, or at least I haven’t noticed it. In fact, searching using the Japanese name is my preferred method on CDJ, since they’re not always consistent about how they romanize and/or translate things even within the same series…
Home | 4月22日
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Title | Type | Progress |
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星の王子さま - L23 | Children’s Book | p. 0 → p. 51 |
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ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 II - L30 | Novel | p. 18 → p. 53 |
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善人シボウデス | Visual Novel | 3h 03m |
Recently it’s been super sunny in the morning, so I’ve been enjoying going through my small physical TBR pile! I was surprised at how easy “The Little Prince” was compared to “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. Both are books I’ve read in translation before, so I’m not going in completely blind anyway (though the last time I read any Harry Potter was probably more than a decade ago…), but when I tried reading “The Little Prince” in French back when I was at a B1 level I gave up after 2 pages because I couldn’t understand anything. Really happy that I’m now at a point where I can enjoy the story in Japanese.
I’m also really enjoying 善人シボウデス. I still have no idea what’s going on though. First I thought “oh no, it’s about zombies”, then I thought it was about time travel, then clones, then it turn’s out Sigma is a robot?? Except apparently he’s not a robot after all. So. Yeah. I’m bad at this deducing thing, obviously. I’m currently playing the Luna end, and afterewards I’ll only have the Phi end left. Really curious about what’ll happen next!
Home post // April 22 
・ 引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 7 (0% → 5%)
I started reading book 7 before falling asleep last night (2%). I tried putting on timer today. Tiny read, 25 min. Super tired 
I’ll try using timer and see how long it takes me to complete the book.
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