First time joining. I’m joining the listening challenge as well. More detail here.
The only objective now is to read at least a page or for 10 mins. Get the habit going for the first week and then populating an Anki deck going forward
I have the idea of adding 5 new words/phrases a day to an Anki deck, but I will see that when I get through the first week.
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Manga
Night of the Living Cat Vol.1: Got this in Japan after seeing some ads about it on IG and seeing that it was an actual manga when browsing a bookstore.
Light novel/Novel
ボッコちゃん (星 新一) Picked up a bunch of novels from Hoshi Shinichi. Stories are short and sci-fi, which I love.
ボッコちゃん
Finished reading おーいでてこーい, the third story in the book. I think I understand everything, a few words here and there that I’m not 100% comfortable with. I understand how the ending is circling back to a point earlier in the story and that shit is going to hit the fan ˆˆ;
I read the first 4 pages of the Happniess , wanted to read more but life happened and now i don’t think i have any enregy left to read more . I had to look up only 2 words so i got by easily today .
川瀬巴水作品集
Up to page 215 = complete! - First day of the Spring challenge but last day of the Kawase artbook. Real interesting book! It has most of his works though a few I know of are missing - it’s not a catalogue raisonné though, those books are ridiculously expensive - but there was lots of great info in it!
I went on a little dive into if there was a full collection of Kawase's work
Yeah just had a quick look if there was such a collection for Kawase and there are… for at least £2,000+ big ones (and that was without shipping)
The last art piece by Kawase (1957) - a redo of an earlier work from about 22 years before, it also wasn’t fully completed until after his death, it was finished for him in tribute. This version now has snow and a person ascending the steps, very fitting that his last work was a snow one as his snow scenes are probably his most famous works - I also like to imagine that it’s Kawase himself climbing the stairs, leaving us to go onto his next journey.
Great to see returning readers and some new readers to the challenge! Will look forward to reading with you all, so…
Hello, all! I joined Wanikani today and am looking forward to joining this challenge! Reading children’s books to our baby daughter will probably be much of my reading
I must say, ケロロ軍曹 never ceases to surprise me. Today’s chapter ended up being surprisingly touching for me
Overall, definitely not a bad day, reading-wise.
Read 1 chapter of ケロロ軍曹、1 chapter of メイドインアビス and two chapters of 蜘蛛ですが、なにか？
And even managed to play a bit of FF XIV
とんがり帽子のアトリエ - 6 pages read (up to page 86 of Vol. 1) 75 minutes
Final Fantasy 8 - 45 minutes of story content played. If anyone’s interested in what part of the game that was, see below!
FF8 Progress
Squall and co. boarded the train to Timber where they had their first Laguna flashback. This was the one where he, Kiros and Ward make it back to Galbadia and go to the hotel for a drink. There Laguna finally spoke to ‘piano lady’ Julia, who confided in him her wish to become a singer. When the flashback ended, Squall and co. woke up and the train stopped at Timber. Once disembarked, we gave the spy-style code to one of the resistance members waiting there, and boarded the Forest Owl’s train serving as their headquarters.
Question about doing my daily reading on webpages with no furigana. There’s an NHK News site that adds furigana to kanji based on WaniKani level. It’s a clever idea, but I dislike reading the news. Does anyone know of a way to do that for any website? I generally browse using my iPhone and I mostly use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons. At the very least I can use hiragana.jp which is great and works fine in my phone browser. But it does furigana for all kanji not by WK level.
Welcome to all the others who have joined in the meantime
Let’s get started!
April 1st
Am a bit sick, but still managed to get some reading in. I read chapter 9 of 薬屋のひとりごと 1 (Apothecary Diaries) as well as chapter 38 of Frieren (the first chapter of volume 5)
I think one goal of mine will be finishing that first Apothecary Diaries light novel this month! It has 31 chapters in total and now I have finished 9. I’ve already decided that I won’t buy any new books before I have finished that one I currently have this as digital only and it’s a bit of dilemma. On one hand, I much prefer physical books over digital ones. On the other, this book in particular has so many terms where I feel like I better look them up, and that’s much easier to do with a digital copy. On the bookwalker app on my iPad, I just press on a word for a bit longer to select and boom, look it up in the built-in dictionary. With physicals books, I usually don’t bother looking a term up unless I encounter it often enough that I am annoyed by not knowing it
Anyway, maybe towards the end of this first volume, I have a better idea of whether I could tackle this without so many dictionary lookups or not
Made it one day! Right now I’m just trying to get into the habit, even if I only understand half of what I’m reading.
By the way, I edited the calendar on my home post since April/May’s weeks started with 月曜日 but June with 日曜日 (might have been a formatting thing to avoid overhang), but also the start/end weekdays of June were off by one day.
Not furigana, but use yomitan to get a pop-up dictionary if you hold a button and hover over a word (I use shift). There’s a few guides out there on how to use it that I won’t regurgitate here (unless you need)
/edit i missed that this was on iPhone. I don’t have that system, so I can’t help here I’m afraid…
. I had to look up only 2 words so i got by easily today 
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April 1st 
- but there was lots of great info in it!
(and that was without shipping)
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April 1st 
I currently have this as digital only and it’s a bit of dilemma. On one hand, I much prefer physical books over digital ones. On the other, this book in particular has so many terms where I feel like I better look them up, and that’s much easier to do with a digital copy. On the bookwalker app on my iPad, I just press on a word for a bit longer to select and boom, look it up in the built-in dictionary. With physicals books, I usually don’t bother looking a term up unless I encounter it often enough that I am annoyed by not knowing it 
逆転裁判 - case 4 out of 5
