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

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:sun: :beetle: :ocean: meagstudies’ home post 夏２５ :ocean: :beetle: :sun:

Starting a bit late, but I’m rejoining this challenge! Technically joined last time too but didn’t really read.

My main goal is to read 50% of the days. Of course my real goal is to read every day but also I know myself :sweat_smile:

Some other goals:

I want to to catch up to the actual day for 小学生なら知っておきたい教養366. So by September 30 I need to be on Day 273 (I am on 85 rn).

I’d also like to read some fantasy manga to prepare for Final Fantasy I in September. I might reread the A Link to the Past manga or read a new Zelda manga. Or maybe Witch Hat Atelier, which I’ve been putting off b/c I want to read it in English, but I do have the first volume in Japanese.

七月

月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 :globe_showing_asia_australia: :globe_showing_asia_australia: :globe_showing_asia_australia: 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 :game_die:
:money_with_wings: :money_with_wings: 23 24 :money_with_wings: 26 27
28 29 30 31

八月

月 火 水 木 金 土 日
:globe_showing_asia_australia: 02 03
:globe_showing_asia_australia: :globe_showing_asia_australia: :money_with_wings: 07 08 09 10
11 12 13 :money_with_wings: :globe_showing_asia_australia: 15 16 17
18 19 :globe_showing_asia_australia: :money_with_wings: 22 :gem_stone: 24
25 26 27 :globe_showing_asia_australia: 29 30 31

九月

月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 :money_with_wings: :black_cat: 04 05 :gem_stone: 07
08 09 10 11 12 :gem_stone: 14
15 16 17 :black_cat: 19 :gem_stone: 21
:globe_showing_asia_australia: :globe_showing_asia_australia: :globe_showing_asia_australia: 25 26 27 :gem_stone:
29 :globe_showing_asia_australia:
Reading Type Status
:globe_showing_asia_australia: 小学生なら知っておきたい教養366 本 Reading
:gem_stone: ファイナルファンタジー ゲーム Reading
:black_cat: 魔女の宅急便１ 本 Reading
:money_with_wings: レンタルおにいちゃん１ 漫画 Finished
:game_die: misc 記事など
Previous Challenges

:dragon: :united_states: winter 2021
:castle: :coffee: spring 2022
:polar_bear: :bust_in_silhouette: summer 2022
:dragon: :mantelpiece_clock: autumn 2022
:cityscape: :boxing_glove: spring 2023
:raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:t2: :motor_scooter: summer 2023
:bug: :dragon: winter 2024
:pencil: :spoon: spring 2025

BOOKS FINISHED: 1
DAYS READ: 27/92 (29%)

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:books::books: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2025 :moon_viewing_ceremony::full_moon:
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Home | 7月7日

:star: Title Type Progress
:thought_balloon: また、同じ夢を見ていた - L25 Novel p. 16 → p. 21

Home | 7月8日

:star: Title Type Progress
:thought_balloon: また、同じ夢を見ていた - L25 Novel p. 22 → p. 31

Home | 7月9日

:star: Title Type Progress
:thought_balloon: また、同じ夢を見ていた - L25 Novel p. 32 → p. 41
:mountain: 大穢 -完全版- Visual Novel 1h 06m

Ooe is still kicking my ass. So many words I’ve never seen before… @,@

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:butterfly: Home Post :butterfly: - 7月9日

サイレント・ウィッチ - Vol 4 -after-: 77.71% → 88.40%, 1h36m (the rest is another LN)

I finished the book! It was fun and didn’t feel out of place, even though, as I understood, it wasn’t included in the web novel.

お探し物は図書室まで: 24.00% → 29.58%, 55m

Finished the current week.

香君 1: 77.81% → 80.14%, 18m

Just started reading this week’s portion a bit.

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One chapter of 花子と寓話のテラー before bed :slight_smile:

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:bookmark: Home post // July 9 :milky_way: :tanabata_tree:

・ NO. 6 #2 (20% → 47%) // Time today: 1h 25m. Total time: 2h 41m

Turns out there’s a prebuilt deck on jpdb! Lucky~~ The books in this series are super short, around 65k characters per volume. I’m used to Honzuki 200k long books. The Kusuriya book (vol 14) I was reading during the readathon has 134k characters. So if I put in the effort I could do a readathon but for a week (read-a-week-athon?). Sounds extreme. I’m not sure I’ve come to love this series that much yet to be able to do that :laughing: …But I also like a challenge :eyes: :fire: Well, I haven’t bought all the books yet because I’m not sure I’ll even read them all. I take one volume at a time :3

Besides, the newest vol (10) of Silent Witch was released today :star_struck: Must commence reading soon!

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Oho, sounds like eventual certain romance (And then the question becomes ‘how far does it go?’ :eyes:). Nice pun, haha.

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7月10日 | :white_check_mark:: 3 manga

? Title Type Progress
:popcorn: クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった1 Lvl 27 LN :pause_button: 23%
:dumpling: トナリはなにを食う人ぞ ほろよい 13 Lvl 27 Manga :play_button: 64% → 79%
  • A very short amount of トナリ as I had a 6am shift necessitating a 5am wakeup and I’m still at work lol
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:space_invader: Home Post | My Natively :space_invader:

７月９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 72.13% → 72.70% 16m
Reading progress tracker
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:roller_coaster: home post

:star2: Club Title Type Progress
:red_circle: 心霊探偵八雲２ novel 71 → 79/373 pgs
:yen_banknote: 絶体絶命ゲーム children’s novel 35 → 50/240 pgs
:cityscape: WK ウスズミの果て vol 3 manga 41% → 49%
:headstone: MAGAZINE HOUSE 01 manga 20% → 49%

:yawning_face: Bedtime

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＊７月９日＊

・16 pages of 疾風に恋をする, leaving off on pg 193

Too tired to read the rest (11 pages) tonight

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I reread section 6 of the Final Fantasy script and took a whole lot of grammar notes.

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July 9’
A little more Planetarian VN today. I’m reading it on Switch, where I can push a button to go between English and Japanese. Perfect when I’m really too tired to read!

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Finished up the next chapter of 呪われた少年 last night. It’s nice to see them giving a little bit more backstory to the main character now. The book itself is still very much episodic but there’s starting to be some indication of a wider-arching plot.

Might try and jump back into 仄見える少年 today since I’m not too far off finishing the first volume.

9th July Type Progress
:ghost: 呪われた少年 Vol 2 Children’s Book 50 → 67 / 180
:ghost: 仄見える少年 Vol 1 Manga 151 / 200
:soccer: ブルーロック Vol 13 Manga 14 / 192
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10th july

alright, change of plan. abandoning tearmoon, starting 鹿(しか)の王(おう), and trying a new manga. manga is very much nsfw (randomiser, throw me a non-nudity bone, please) but i’ll give it a bit longer before i drop it or not.

emoji book pages read
:memo: n1 vocab book 176-178
:memo: nihongo so-matome n1 grammar 15-17
:palm_tree: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く８ x
:princess: tearmoon empire LN 1 151-stopped
:deer: 鹿(しか)の王(おう) 0-18
:dizzy: セブン☆スター 0-51
:herb: absolution 24-81

today’s nhk article was x (i forgot oops)

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２０２５年７月１０日(木)

:alien: Book Pages
:bat: ハピネス１ 43 - 58
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July 9th update! I read three sections of DrDru’s Main Experiment, 4.5-4.7. I started 4.8, but quickly got confused with a couple of kanji I didn’t remember, so I’ll have to go it at it again but potentially look up the hiragana for those two. July 10th goal is to read three more sections of DrDru’s project, but we’ll see how that ends up because the day looks busy.

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Today: p. 143-153 of よつばと！ Vol. 5.

Lookups

てるてる坊主 てるてるぼうず paper fine-weather dolls
その手 そのて that kind of…; that way
その手があった that’s the way to do it
宗教 しゅうきょう religion, religious activity
足掻き あがき struggle
どうなっている what is happening?
かわりに instead of, in place of
お絵描き おえかき drawing, painting
連れて来る つれてくる to bring along
騒がせる さわがせる to disturb, to alarm

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7月10日(木)

:deciduous_tree: SR 幸せの木 (第76話〜第78話)

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ARIA❽
Special Navigation 女心
Navigation 37 記憶喪失 (再読)

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:bookmark: Home post // July 10 :milky_way: :tanabata_tree:

・ NO. 6 #2 (47% → 100%) // Time today: 2h 48m. Total time: 5h 29m

I take back what I said about this series is easier than lvl 32. There are more old/literary words than I first thought. The author keeps citing Shakespeare/Hamlet and other old works. So I doubt it’s because the series was written 20 years ago. The Saikawa & Moe series was written even further back and has plenty of modern katakana tech/fashion words instead.

Just to name a few lookups: 希求、金蔓、暗唱、嗜好品、憂さ晴らし、緞帳、願い下げ、贋物、箴言、 独房。

Edit: Wait, the grade has changed to lvl 31? What’s going on :laughing: My gradings can’t have had that big of an effect on the difficulty.
Edit2: Should I change my gradings? :thinking:

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July 10

Still tired but wanted to progress a bit more today. I did small sessions throughout the day and accumulated almost 1 hour of reading time.

Title Chapter Time Pages Progress
葬送のフリーレン 2 :hourglass_not_done: Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15 53 min 156/195 pages (Ch.12) 40% → 100% / (Ch.13 & 14 & 15) 0 → 100%
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:blossom: Home Post

10th July

:sunflower: Book Page
:flamingo: 君たちはどう生きるか 10-12

I would love to read more, but since it’s very formal speech most of the time it’s so different to read than the other books I have read so far. Honestly don’t know if this will work out on my current level. Gonna still keep trying for now though :snail:

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