📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2025 🐍🐸

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25th may :leaf_fluttering_in_wind:

more pixiv, this automaton article, and another quarter of the trees, which is going at a blistering pace and i’m only halfway through. excited and slightly nervous to see where it’s going

emoji book pages read
:memo: n1 vocab book 70-x
:palm_tree: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く８ x
:person_running: 風(かぜ)が強(つよ)く吹(ふ)いている 192-x
:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: undecided manga x
:cityscape: すばらしきこのせかい x
:cherries: the trees 90-170

today’s nhk article was x

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:cherry_blossom: Home Post :cherry_blossom: - 5月25日

サイレント・ウィッチ 3: 11.15% → 46.46%, 5h50m

I think I overdid a bit today. But I just couldn’t stop! Barney Vs Monica part was the best, and further culmination was totally unexpected.

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Finished Chapter 105, Chapter 106, Chapter 107 and Chapter 108 of デスノート :slight_smile: And with this, I finished the whole manga :smiley:

やっとできた。。。信じられない。。。

I actually didn’t play on finishing this today, but I really got into this final volume (probably because the end is different from the anime) and also reading went really well today. It was probably my best reading session so far. Finishing the volume took me only 5 hours and 33 minutes according to Mokuro, which is like 4 hours faster than the previous one.

Some thoughts: I’m really glad I did it, I definitely learned a ton from it and I definitely improved a bunch. I remember when I was struggling super hard with the first chapter and I think I spent like 3 hours on finishing it. Unfortunately, I didn’t read with Mokuro until volume 5, so I don’t know how long it took to read the whole thing, but I think it has to be close to 200 hours. I was going really slow at the beginning. I started reading this in December :sweat_smile:

I already know what I’m going to read next, but I think I’ll spend some time with my Quartet book first because it has been collecting dust for the past few months :sweat_smile:

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:bookmark: Home post // May 25 :snake: :frog:

・ 薬屋のひとりごと 12 (12% → 19%) // Time: 55min. Total: 1h 55 min

Going at a chill pace, slower than Silent Witch. Mainly because Kusuriya is harder and lookups take time. There’s literal Chinese in this series, no joke.

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5月26日 | :white_check_mark:: 1 graded reader, 1 book, 22 manga vols

? Title Type Progress
:newspaper: 四つ子ぐらし 3 学校生活はウワサだらけ! Lvl 24 children’s novel :play_button: 72% → 75%
:bread: 葬送のフリーレン 8 Lvl 26 manga :play_button: 40% → 49%
:woman_dancing: ガールクラッシュ 2巻 Lvl 24 manga :play_button: 0% → 10%
  • Fairly short chapter of 四ツ子
  • A chapter of Frieren.
  • Chapter of Girl Crush 2 to try and read what’s available on Kindle Unlimited before my sub expires.
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５月２５日

:space_invader: Book Type Progress Time
:magic_wand: 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 Light Novel 43.35% → 43.99% 20m
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☆５月２５日☆

Read:
・4 pages of 風が強く吹いている, starting ch 3 and leaving off on pg 109
・3 pages of こころ, reading ch 11 and leaving off on pg 44

Played:
・聖剣伝説３ Trials of Mana (15:59⇒17:45)
・あつまれ    どうぶつの森

At level 44/45, we finally found the first ???の種 which sprout into class change items. Turns out, each class needs its own item, so I’ll need six if I want to actually choose how each of my characters progresses… Lovely.

Found the second at lv 46/47. Luckily, it was for Duran, same as the first, so he’s now a Lord. I saved and quit right after that though, so I haven’t tried it out yet. Hopefully with two healing abilities, we’ll need fewer healing items… except he doesn’t use the first very often already and I forget about it when controlling him, so.

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26th may :leaf_fluttering_in_wind:

little bit of 風(かぜ), i’m about a third of the way through. new manga read is 今日(きょう)から俺(おれ)は！！ which is a classic comedy delinquent manga. fun so far!

emoji book pages read
:memo: n1 vocab book 70-74
:palm_tree: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く８ x
:person_running: 風(かぜ)が強(つよ)く吹(ふ)いている 192-210
:oncoming_fist: 今日(きょう)から俺(おれ)は！！ 0-31
:cityscape: すばらしきこのせかい x
:cherries: the trees 170-254

today’s nhk article was this one (傘(かさ)の持(も)ち方(かた))

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congrats!!! :tada:

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Title Today Progress
三まいのおふだ 1 page 59%
:bullet_train: ドラゴンヘッド 1 page 16%
:guitar: ぼっち・ざ・ろっく 2 pages 41%
:rocket: ふたつのスピカ ２ extra ch1 81%

Did my minimum read, then cleaned up one of my tracking methods and finished a couple in-progress chapters to make it neat. Then some spica.

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May 26th

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:blue_book: Book Pages
:coffee: 木曜日にはココアを - L28 Novel pg.24
:hospital: 冷たい密室と博士たち DOCTORS IN ISOLATED ROOM - L32 Novel pg.122
:egg: 乳と卵 - L37 Novel pg.34
:bread: 神様の定食屋 - L30? Novel pg.13 - pg.31
:house: 継母の連れ子が元カノだった 昔の恋が終わってくれない - L31 LN pg.0 - pg.35
:coffee: さよならも言えないうちに - L27 Novel pg.0 - pg.48
:sunset: 国境の南、太陽の西 - L31 Novel pg.0 - pg.28

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Another one too which I’ve since lost.

Found one of the infamous (relatively) useless early WK words 考古学 in the wild for the first time today! I had completely forgotten it because it’s been probably about a year since I last saw it.

Look at all those bookssss. Good. Feed me books.

Started a LN and something which feels like a LN (distinction dishminction). Also got through most of the first chapter of the コーヒーが冷めないうちに book (thankfully much shorter chapters than the last one).
Then, I started off my next 村上 book. I think in English this one might be my favourite, or maybe 2nd. I read chapter 1, and it was very very good writing. 村上’s wriitng style is just so effortlessly readable even in Japanese. Like it a lot.

And in typical 村上 fashion, there’s 2 reviews on Natively for this book which are about the two most polarised reviews I’ve ever seen in my life. I understand both the good and bad things people point out, but it really is interesting to see how polarising he can be, and I don’t think there’s many writers who are this inherently marmite.

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Big achievement, congrats! 200 hours is crazy commitment.

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Home Post :frog: | Week 8

5月23日 (金)

  • 3月のライオン 1 (37-55%)
  • :cn: 恋爱绮谭 不存在的夏天 :video_game: – end Ch.

5月24日 (土)

  • 3月のライオン 1 (55-72%)
  • :cn: 恋爱绮谭 不存在的夏天 :video_game:

5月25日 (日)

  • 3月のライオン 1 (72-89%)

Home Post :frog: | Week 9

5月26日 (月)

  • 3月のライオン 1 (89%) - 2 (12%)
  • 空の軌跡 :video_game: – fin

Also bought and set up the sequel, 空の軌跡 SC.

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Some more pages of グッドナイト、アイラブュー today, clocking in at page 44 today.

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:star: Title Type Progress
:wrapped_gift: ギフト - L25 Light Novel 1p.

didn’t read on 5月24日 and 5月25日

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:star: Title Type Progress
:peacock: Japanese Folktales for Language Learners - L25 Graded Reader p. 130 → p. 157
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May 26
SeaBed VN again. Slowly slowly making my way through it. This will be a year long project I’m afraid!

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２０２５年５月２６日(月)

今朝、チーズスイートホームの199章から200章を読んだ。

I’ll start the last book of the series tomorrow.

:alien: Book Pages
:black_cat: チーズスイートホーム１１ 115 - 152
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5月27日 | :white_check_mark:: 1 graded reader, 2 books, 22 manga vols

? Title Type Progress
:newspaper: 四つ子ぐらし 3 学校生活はウワサだらけ! Lvl 24 children’s novel :white_check_mark: 75% → 100% COMPLETE
:bread: 葬送のフリーレン 8 Lvl 26 manga :play_button: 49% → 69%
:woman_dancing: ガールクラッシュ 2巻 Lvl 24 manga :pause_button: 10%
  • Hit the finale of 四ツ子 and was carried to the end, always nice when books do this.
  • Another two (or three?) chapters of フリーレン. We’re on a multi-chapter arc which is exciting.
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５月２６日

:space_invader: Book Type Progress Time
:magic_wand: 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 Light Novel 43.99% → 44.47% 21m
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☆５月２６日☆

・54 pages of 風が強く吹いている, reading into ch 4 and leaving off on pg 163

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