July 29th
| Title | Type | Progress |
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| 月の影影の海 下 | Book | p140‐p181 |
| ひぐらしのなく頃に Ch.1 | VN | ~9000 characters |
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Home post // July 30 
・本好きの下剋上 19 (26.7% → 30.9%) | 8.8k characters (64 890 / 210k char.)
Not much action so far, but even so it’s one big thing after the other happening in this book, it’s so much fun. I’m also a bit confused about the age of some of the characters.
Lookups (5)
| Word | Note |
|---|---|
| 万事 | everything |
| 恙ない | |
| 大所帯 | |
| 刃傷沙汰 | bloodshed |
| 往生際が悪い | not knowing when to give up, being a bad loser |
@Jintor Happy birthday! 
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July 30 | Home post
2500 characters from Island 
today, plus a little textbook reading. Funny how easy the textbook is after reading a few hundred thousand characters from a VN! 
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Home Post | 
Study Log | 27-29/07
| Resource | Pages |
|---|---|
 Horimiya Vol.1 |
40 → 68 |
 Shikimori isn’t just cute Vol.1 |
77 → 88 |
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Happy birthday!
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July 30th!
Started reading Volume 2 of Frieren today, and read the first chapter.
Also read 2 pages of the Orange Light Novel.
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31 July | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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逆転裁判 | game | ??? | 0/5 cases  |
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ダンジョン飯１０ | manga | 30 | 55% ( ) |
- I’ve decided to just start 逆転裁判. So far so good. Not sure entirely how I will approach it but I definitely feel a lot more confident than I did the last time I tried to approach it (many years ago). The sentences are nice and bite-sized too. Still, I had to relearn a lot of law terms immediately that I hadn’t seen since the last time I tried this (裁判所、有罪、裁判官、法廷 etc)
- Probably going to start up another easy manga (maybe continue ふつの軽音部２/Girl Meets Rock 2, since I grabbed it yesterday)
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07月30日
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Club | Title | Type | Progress |
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offshoot | しろくまカフェ | manga | 49% → 55% |
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グースバンプス 恐怖の館 | prose | 73 → 80/189pgs | |
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ハリーポッタと賢者の石 | prose | 49% → 50% |
Hit that 50% on HP. Read chapter 7 of Goosebumps again which actually didn’t need many lookups. Now it’s bedtime. 
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| 07月30日 | Type: | Progress: | |
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ブルーロック 戦いの前、僕らは。 潔・凪・蜂楽 | Light Novel | 015 / 208 pgs |
Didn’t manage to do a huge amount of reading yesterday, but I am just casually re-reading Horimiya, which was the first manga I attempted back with the ABBC in October when I was a lowly level 6 on Wanikani.
I remember some of the sentences being absolutely solid, and thinking I would never be able to understand them and I couldn’t figure out what was vocab, what was conjugation, what was a grammar point, but now they pose almost no issues at all.
It’s a nice reminder of how far I’ve come, and a nice motivator to stick at this even when content feels almost incomprehensible some days.
Also started adding a few common words to Anki in preparation for FMA this weekend! Figured being able to read 錬金術師 is a good place to start 
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July 30
| Type | Done today | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| ロジカとラッカセイ volume 2 | Chapter 9 10 | 10/17 chapters |
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July summary:
31 chapters of Human Japanese Intermediate completed (missed one day, but doubled up on another)
31 episodes of 壁の穴 (up to episode #33 having started last challenge)
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It’s cool that it’s easier for you now! I’ve been thinking I need to do this too, because Horimiya felt soooo tough when I read it with the club.
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31st july
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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江戸時代大百科 1 | kids non-fiction | high 20s? | pg 20-x |
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ブレイブリーデフォルト | game | N/A | none |
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one last song | eng book | N/A | pg 34-x |
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aDoAJG | grammar | N/A | pg 141-149 |
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光が死んだ夏5 | manga | 28 | 0-190ish end |
aDoAJG entries were 今更 and 一方
this nhk article
words that stood out
論破 - winning an argument, refutation
性 - one’s nature, one’s destiny, custom, convention, tradition
didn’t do any of my main reads in favour of reading the whole of 光が死んだ夏 5 instead and i regret none of it. now just to wait for volume 6… my english read now is one last song by nathan evans, a short-ish romance between two older men at a retirement home. see how it goes, ig?
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I guess it’s time to start tackling all this native material that got piled up.
(still didn’t come back from vacation and not really sure what to read for these two months but Feeling The Urge To Commit To Something)
This homepost is to be beautified once I return home, but I think I’ll read some 三ツ星カラーズ and some stuff from Satori Reader in the meantime starting Tomorrow.
(also, can watching anime with subtitles be considered reading? cuz with my listening comprehension it’s reading mostly haha)
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Today: p. 105-115 from Chap. 25 of よつばと！ Vol. 4.
Vocab
p. 105-115
せいじん: purity, innocence
連休: れんきゅう: consecutive holidays
どんなときも: at all times
それなり: in its/my own way
モテ: popular
断り: ことわり: refusal
さっき: a short while ago
手ェつないで: hand in hand
繋ぐ: つなぐ: connected
なかいい: close, on good terms
つまり: in other words
I have read every day in July! Congrats to everyone; this challenge is a real motivator for me.
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7月21-31日 | Home post
I had a very busy week, where I only read the minimum each day to not break the chain, and then the last few days I was reading before bed and I never got to updating the post here.
7月21-27日: read a single episode of Satori Reader’s Trees of Happiness each day (except on the 23, when I read two episodes)
7月28-31日: got back to LOOPERS, and I am now past the halfway point!
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Today | Progress |
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| 7月28日 | 2.1k | 57.9k (~45%) |
| 7月29日 | 2.2k | 60.1k (~47%) |
| 7月30日 | 2.4k | 62.5k (~48%) |
| 7月31日 | 4.1k | 66.7k (~52%) |
I was aiming to complete LOOPERS by the end of this challenge, but now the FMA book club is starting and I am very tempted… 
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Join us. Thrive.
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July 31 | Home post
Last day of July - that’s 4 months of reading every day. Reading Island really feels easier now! Still not easy, not at all, but at least a little easier. 5000 characters from Island today.
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Definitely worth it, even if you just flip through! One nice benefit I’m finding is I’m picking up on some additional new words that my brain must have just skipped at the time because it was too overwhelmed. It feels like it’s now hitting that nice 90-95% comprehensive that people recommend.
Haha yes do join 
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