📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2025 🌌 🎋

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Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Summer 2025 Edition! :milky_way: :tanabata_tree:

Hello! It’s getting hotter in ha, it’s getting hotter in here, as the song goes. At least for us unfortunate folks in the Northern Hemisphere, that is. For you lucky ducks in the Southern Hemisphere, I hope you enjoy a cool but not frigid winter this year. To us all, let’s get reading!

This Season's Emoji Explanation

This year, we’re paying homage to Tanabata, the festival that celebrates the meeting of Orihime and Hikoboshi, two dieties that are only allowed to meet once a year by crossing the Milky Way Galaxy as a bridge on the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. Typically Japan celebrates in July although regionally you might find places that follow the lunar calendar. People celebrate by writing wishes on a piece of paper that’s subsequently hanged on bamboo. This year is predicted to be one of the hottest on record, so I plan to wish for no heat stroke. How about you?

Where does this challenge come from?

Back in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the great idea of a “Read Every Day” challenge, in which participants challenged themselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months. Since then and until winter 2024, @Redglare and @windupbird have hosted this challenge every season. Thanks to them, many of us have improved our Japanese and lifestyles! You might notice that I am neither a bird nor glare. I offered to take over the challenge since they’re quite busy (お疲れ様！), but of course they’re welcome to take it back at any time if they want to. I’ll do my best to keep up the encouragement!

Please help us keep this a positive, encouraging, and fun space! Please feel free to bribe encourage fellow participants with cute pet and animal photos or recipes even.

Archive of Past Challenge Threads

Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella:

Read every day challenge - Fall 2021 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon:

Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:

Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 :cherry_blossom: :seedling:

Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 :beach_umbrella: :sunny:

Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf:

Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:

Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 :cherry_blossom::tulip::blossom:

Read every day challenge - Summer 2023 :sunglasses::sunny:

Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 :scarf: :fallen_leaf: :maple_leaf:

Read every day challenge - Winter 2024 :bamboo: :snowman_with_snow: :evergreen_tree:

Read every day challenge - Spring 2024 :cherry_blossom: :dango: :seedling:

:books: :books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2024 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon: :cricket_bat_and_ball:

:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2024 :maple_leaf::chestnut::apple:

:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2025 :snake::frog:

While the name of the challenge is “Read Every Day,” you may have noticed that it also has a season attached. That’s because each challenge only lasts 2 months. Forever would be a long commitment. By having clear start and end dates, it becomes a much more manageable goal. At the end of the challenge, please consider what worked or didn’t work for you. Did you have fun? Then you can take a break or decide to keep going.

Also, please don’t worry about starting late or not completing the challenge! Life happens. This is an open opportunity for everyone who wants to set some reading goals. Everyone is welcome. Some participants have even started tracking their reading in other languages.

As @Redglare has said:

This is a thread for people who:

:bookmark: want to spend time reading a bunch

:bookmark: want to improve their reading speed and comprehension

:bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress

:bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of reading every day for two or so months :books: :books:

To add onto that, this is also a thread for people who want to track or talk about their reading too. If you’d like a computer to do most of your tracking, please check out Natively.

Time frame: July 1 - August 31

Again, late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through September and some may give some updates even later. It’s all good! You can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you. Personally, I usually extend my reading into the 3rd month since I find these challenges have been great at helping me reach my annual reading goals.

As @windupbird has said

Your reading materials can be whatever you want, be it manga, light novels, books, visual novels, magazines, graded readers, satori reader, Japanese webpages/blogs, or Japanese games - you name it, anything goes as long as it is something in Japanese :jp: :durtle_the_explorer: “Reading” can be interpreted creatively, if that helps keep you motivated - for example, some people have counted reading Japanese subtitles as reading some days. In general, we are a pretty flexible and forgiving bunch :wink:

Need help finding something to read? Check these threads out!

The News Reading Challenge - folks typically read the easy NHK article of the day or other similar articles from various apps

The "news reading" challenge 🗞

The Immersion portion of this thread has a lot of great resources

The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List!

Reading the same book with others can be pretty motivating. It’s also easier to ask about grammar or vocab, so how about joining a book club? If you don’t want to join, you could always take it as a recommended book instead. A list of book clubs can be found here:

Master List of Book Clubs

Would you like to participate?
  • Yes
  • Yes, but I might start late
  • Not sure
  • I’d like to but I can’t
  • No
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Happy reading!

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Participants

Feel free to add your username to the list!
Note: please try to keep this alphabetical. Also it’s better to update your day count at the end of the challenge

Username Date Joined Days Completed
CandyKale July 1 Home post
cheerfulbread July 1
cieldemayo July 1 Home post
claninha July 1 Home post
DIO-Berry July 1 :thinking:
DMichaelis July 1
feralfuton July 1 :alien:
frequent4832 July 1 Home post
Izabelle July 3
leila-mei July 2
lifev July 1 Home post
Lisaveeta July 1 Home Post
lycheemint July 1 Home post
Marifly July 1 Home post
MarnieDEB July 1 Home post
Midnightblue July 1 Home post
monlitt July 1 Home post
Neon_Kitsune July 1 Home
polv July 1 :house_with_garden:
Redglare July 1 Home post
Samraku July 1 Home Post
Sidrah July 7
straille July 1 home post
TheNerdyNova July 1 Home Post
ThiagoIanuch July 1 :alien_monster:
WeepingWeeb July 1 Home post
Xelvanox July 1 Home post

Sidrah | July 7 |
|TheNerdyNova | July 1 | Home Post|
|ThiagoIanuch | July 1 | :alien_monster:|
|WeepingWeeb | July 1 | Home post|
|Xelvanox | July 1 | Home post|

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Do you want to hide books you’re reading but didn’t read on a particular day? For example, book club books?

Normally my book list looks like this on a post…

:cat: Book Pages
:dress: 女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い 1 start - 32

But if you look underneath the hood…

|:cat: | Book | Pages|
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| :dress: | [女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い 1](https://learnnatively.com/book/7296952c20/) | start - 32 |


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|:butterfly:| https://learnnatively.com/series/ca3c2862a1/ (2・65)| start - |
|:dagger: | [ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 2](https://learnnatively.com/book/5a735f0743/)  | 67 - 86 |
| :family_man_boy_boy: | [腐男子家族 3](https://learnnatively.com/book/c100594e39/) | 43 - 92 |
|:musical_note:| [気になってる人が男じゃなかった](https://learnnatively.com/book/0f5d164515/) | 97 - 116 | 
| :baseball: | [変人偏屈列伝](https://learnnatively.com/book/80604f5d7b/) | 6 - 20 |
|:rainbow:| [日本の美しい色と言葉](https://learnnatively.com/book/233aa6e60b/) | 84 - 87, 165 |
|:horse:| [ララの結婚 4](https://learnnatively.com/book/a79c6ad26e/) | start - 68 |
| :horse_racing: | [STEEL BALL RUN 3](https://learnnatively.com/book/b0308988a6/) | start -  |
| :telescope: |  https://learnnatively.com/book/4e727091c6/  | 13 - 15 |
|:cherry_blossom: | https://learnnatively.com/book/191965a834/ | start - 13 |
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Wiki’ed now! :+1:

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Thanks for hosting, @DIO-Berry! :heart_hands:

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Thanks (yet) again for hosting @DIO-Berry

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Thanks, Rachel

Thank you Redglare and Lisaveeta!

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It feels empty without home posts lol…

tentative Berry home post. I hope to continue my streak that I started either this spring or winter.

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:bookmark: :books: Redglare’s home post :durtle_hello:

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= Days read
= Books finished

:books: Natively profile :books:
:books: Bookmeter profile :books:

Reading material
Start Title Done Notes
7/5 NO. 6 7/7 L32
6/7 Saikawa & Moe book 10 L32, 23% →
:durtle_cat:
Previous home posts

・2021: Summer :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella:・Autumn :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon:
・2022: Winter :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:・Spring :cherry_blossom: :seedling:・Summer :beach_umbrella::sunny:・Fall :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf:
・2023: Winter :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:・Spring :cherry_blossom::tulip::blossom:・Summer :sunglasses::sunny:・Fall :scarf::fallen_leaf::maple_leaf:
・2024: Winter :bamboo::snowman_with_snow::evergreen_tree:・Spring :cherry_blossom::dango::seedling:・Summer :beach_umbrella::watermelon::cricket_bat_and_ball:・Fall :maple_leaf::chestnut::apple:
・2025: Winter :snowflake::rabbit:・Spring :snake::frog:

Fast travel to updates

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mycatslikerock’s home post

Goals
Keep on reading different kinds of material: novels, manga, anything.
Start doing more grammar focused study with books.
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Samraku’s Home Post

TODO

Procrastinate this Checklist until the Readathon has Already Started
Set Goals
Link Previous Readathon Home Post
Add Calendar
Link Home Post in Participants Table
???
Profit!
Add Days Read to the Participants Table

Materials

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Previous Read Every Day Home Posts

2025 Spring

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home post for me, too :3c
last month

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:ram: :orange_book: :bookmark_tabs: :date:
:cherry_blossom: カードキャプターさくら 8 137 - 181 7 月 1 日
:cherry_blossom: カードキャプターさくら 9 7 - 47 7 月 2 日
:cherry_blossom: " 48 - 92 7 月 3 日
:cherry_blossom: " 93 - 136 7 月 4 日
:cherry_blossom: " 137 - 180 7 月 5 日
:cherry_blossom: カードキャプターさくら 10 7 - 50 7 月 6 日
:cherry_blossom: " 51 - 92 7 月 7 日
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Summer Challenge time!

What I'm reading
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Progress Report
July
  • July 1st
    • Witch Hat Atelier - Chapter 62 - p.115-142
    • Yoru no Namae wo Yonde - Prologue - p.1-12
    • A Sign of Affection - Chapter 1 - p.1-58
  • July 2nd
    • Detective Dog Chris - Part of Chapter 3 - p.63-68
  • July 3rd
    • Detective Dog Chris - End of Chapter 3 - p.69-72
  • July 4th
    • The Promised Neverland - Chapter 34 - p.171-192 Volume 8 Complete! :tada:
  • July 5th
    • Karakai Jouzu no (Moto) Takagi-san - Chapter 90-93 - p.73-114
  • July 6th
    • Witch Hat Atelier - Chapter 63 - p.143-160 Volume 11 Complete! :tada:
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First time doing a “Reading Japanese everyday Challenge”

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Reserving for summary post

Still tossing up my personal challenge for this season between LN of Apoth Diaries 2 and 999 Zero Escape vidyagame

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I’m in of course! More than a year now of doing this challenge. Can’t stop now!

Not going to use a calendar this time though. I post every day and I forget to update the calendar :slight_smile:

My Natively

Reading

VNs:
Seabed
Aokana
The Fruit of Grisaia

Books
霧島くんは普通じゃない
太平洋を泳ぎぬけ
銭天堂 ふしぎ駄菓子屋 2
時間割男子1
本好きの下剋上第一部兵士の娘1
木曜日にはココアを

Manga
ふらいんぐうぃっち 9
作りたい女と食べたい女 2
銀の匙 Silver Spoon 1

Finished
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I’ve stopped using the calendar here & just update on my study log for the same reasons

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Oh cool! Before you posted I was wondering if I could do the same, so I think I’ll do that!! My reading/listening everyday habit is solidified I think, but I do like keeping track of what I have read or watched, so I can look back on it :grin:

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🌞 nyx's home post 🌞

this year is flying by, what do you mean we’re almost in july… thanks again to DIO-Berry for hosting and hello to new and old faces!

my slow plod through my physical novels on my shelf continues, i’m not sure what to go for after run with the wind (which i may or may not finish before the challenge actually starts) but i might give the first deer king book a go. other than that, who knows! i might even finish infinite wealth sometime in the next century

goals

  • novels! i aimed for three last time which was a bit ambitious, i’ll stick with two

  • i’m still playing infinite wealth, i’m very close to the end of the plot but there’s so much Stuff that there’s still a lot of game to go. plus the DLC…

  • my english reading habit is mostly cemented now but i do find myself skipping it in favour of other things (which i don’t actually want to do) so i’ll keep this here

  • an nhk article every weekday and a few entries in the n1 vocab book

currently reading

龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く８
n1 vocab book
tearmoon kingdom LN 1
heavenly delusion vol 2
absolution by jeff vandermeer (eng book)

finished

heavenly delusion vol 1
orbital (eng book)

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previous challenges

spring 2025
winter 2025
autumn 2024
summer 2024
spring 2024
winter 2024
autumn 2023
summer 2023
spring 2023
winter 2022

bookmeter

natively

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OK being captured on a plane helped a lot :rofl: Here is what I read yesterday:

Name Pages Time
有限と微小のパン THE PERFECT OUTSIDER | L32 54p 4:40h
ミーナの行進 | L33 15p 1:17h
香君1 西から来た少女 香君・文庫版 | L36 6p 0:32h
Sum 75p 6:29h

I still had a little bit of time left, but I just couldn’t take in anything any more… :sweat_smile:

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