I so admire all of you who have persevered through the challenge this summer. I was not so disciplined; in early August I realized that every day’s to-do list was too long, and unfortunately Japanese reading was one of the things that had to go. I look forward to having a quieter summer next year (fingers crossed!) and time for a real reading vacation. Congrats to everyone on their reading achievements!
２０２５年８月３１日(日)
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Book | Pages |
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ハピネス4 | 153 - 192 |
饿殍：明末千里行 
Home post // August 31 
・ 有限と微小のパン THE PERFECT OUTSIDER (88% → 100%) // Time: 2h 30m. Total: 24h 45m
Finally! Finished book and, at last, the series as well. What to say… We’ve been reading this series at the pace of two books per year since 2021. The first book was chosen to be read in Advanced book club (4th book of the club), the rest as an offshoot club. The club is coming to an end after 5 years, huh… Feels weird.
31st august
some misc jp and more pink line again. and that’s the end of the challenge?? man, that flew by. summary post coming tomorrow, fingers crossed.
| emoji | book | pages read |
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n1 vocab book | 256-x |
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nihongo so-matome n1 grammar | 99-x |
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鹿の王 | 249-x |
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the pink line | 362-386 |
today’s nhk article was x
1 hour of Nekopara After 
Planned to do more, but some unexpected things happened today 
I didn’t read every single day, but I still stayed mostly consistent so I’m happy with how this challenge went.
Total time for this game: 1 hour
Total time for this series: 74,4 hours
August 31st!
Started シャドーハウス 20, and read the first 2 chapters to catch up with the offshoot club 
End of Challenge summary: 100% 
Books Completed
- 約束のネバーランド - Volume 4
- とんがり帽子のアトリエ - Volume 11 - 12
- からかい上手の 元 高木さん - Volume 7- 8
- 鋼の錬金術師 - Volume 9-10
- ゆびさきと恋々 - Volume 1
- 葬送のフリーレン - Volume 6
- 夜の名前を呼んで - Volume 1
- カードキャプターさくら - Volume 5
It’s been a super busy period at work, I had an important assignment to hand in for my uni course, and I also spent 10 days travelling, so I’m really surprised by how much I read during this challenge!
Thanks as always to @DIO-Berry for hosting, and to everyone who read and posted in the thread! It’s so much easier to stay motivated when you feel like you are part of something.
As always, I’ll be carrying on with the challenge for the bonus month - but big congrats to everyone who crossed this finish line!
Snake Update
Its hard to capture how long he’s gotten in a photo now - but for a sense of scale, he’s now longer than I am tall!
８月３１日
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Book | Type | Progress | Time |
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ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ | L31 | Light Novel | 5.69% → 6.14% | 18m |
July/Aug recap
20 manga
- You and I are Polar Opposites 6-7
- Bocchi 4-5
- The Girl That I Like Forgot her Glasses 5-6
- What is my Neighbour Cooking ~Horoyoi~ 13
- Nagatoro-san 1-2
- My Self-Proclaimed Villainess Fiance 5-6
- Yotsuba& 10
- Frieren 9
- Cardcaptor Sakura 1
- Eat the Grill of our Love 12
- Delusional Teacher 2
- Rainbows after Storms 2
- Dress-up Darling 6
- Boyish Girlfriend 1
- Girl Meets Rock 4
Gonna keep reading everyday in Sept probably, but won’t log it here. (You can follow all the exciting action on my Natively if you like though)
29/8 12 pages Mina’s Matchbox (finished week 16), 8 pages 日本の歴史 (finished week 5, started next), 29 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ (read chapter 69), aDoAJG ただ and さも
30/8 18 pages Mina’s Matchbox (read week 17, started next), 16 pages 日本の歴史 (finished week 6), 29 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ (read chapter 70), aDoAJG そのもの and さぞ(かし)
31/8 33 pages 明日の世界で星は煌めく (finished week 1, read next), 26 pages ふたつのスピカ (finished volume), 12 pages 付き合ってあげてもいいかな, aDoAJG 済む and 単に
Days off have been good for more catching up! I’ve nearly caught up with Mina’s Matchbox, and yesterday made good progress on 明日の世界で星は煌めく, which I’ll keep reading for the next few days.
Ideally I’d like to be up to date with all manga by the weekend as I have a busy run of shifts starting around then. We’ll see.
I planned to read Natsume last night to keep up with the club, but I accidently fell asleep while srsing. Instead, I started Ruri 3 since I realized that I can probably catch up pretty easily to the club which I only noticed yesterday is currently active. I had just assumed I was too late for it before. After I catch up, then I plan to read Natsume’s chapter. If I have time this week, I’ll also work on getting the JoJo book club caught back up. I haven’t found the next volume of 日本の歴史 and ルリドラゴン only goes up to 3, so I’ll finish those soon and then probably use スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり as my flex (non book club/non bedtime) book.
I also continued Stone Ocean as my bedtime book last night. It’s genuinely weird how much harder it is than SBR, but I think it’s all the psuedo-science explanations. I am glazing over ngl, but I’ll read them in depth in like 10 years, so I’m not that troubled anyway.
２０２５年９月１日(月)
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Book | Pages |
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ドラえもん二年生 学年別ドラえもん名作選 | 14 - 20 |
☆８月３１日☆
・6 pages of NO.6 #2, starting ch 2 and leaving off on pg 43
The beginning of the chapter had me confused for a bit. I thought the section was going to be from the POV of someone other than Shion or Nezumi again like in the first book. And what the hell is “a boy who’s smaller than a girl” supposed to mean? Is it not supposed to be a girl in general but his older sister who’s apparently also there? Though we don’t get that until a page later, and she’s referred to as “女の子,” not “少女,” besides.
Home post // September 1
・ 拝啓見知らぬ旦那様、離婚していただきますII〈上〉(0% → 9%) // Time: 51m. Total: 51m
I’m reading this ridiculous series again. It’s been a while – so long, my brain has suppressed most of the bad parts from the two prior books in the series. It romance 
It had a super silly bet between the main characters in the first books. Then the books ended at a good point as if this wasn’t meant to continue as a series at all (spoiled a lot of the future, did it too, so I promised myself I was done and wouldn’t read on). But now that I’ve forgotten the details, I find myself curious about the series again. Author keeps dishing out more books too.
On a positive note: Yay, romance~ I love me a silly romance.
９月１日
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Book | Type | Progress | Time |
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ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ | L31 | Light Novel | 6.14% → 6.60% | 15m |
♢９月１日♢
I mostly played BG or read in EN, so not much JP reading today.
・2 pages of NO.6 #2, leaving off on pg 45
・3 pages of こころ, reading ch 23 and leaving off on pg 86
I wonder if こころ will ever get easier.
9月2日(火)
(マンガ) また、同じ夢を見ていた・❷
第8話・アバズレさんの幸せ
(マンガ) また、同じ夢を見ていた・❸
第9話・人生とはプリンと一緒
第10話・人生とは私の味方
第11話・おばあちゃんの幸せ
最終話・私の幸せ
Finished the last two volumes of the trilogy today. Will start reading the LN sometime this week. If you’re looking for a quick, easy but interesting read, I can recommend this manga series!
Up until now, I have managed to get some reading done every day of this challenge. Meaning, reading at least 1 manga chapter every. In reality, most days I read a novel.
Initially, I joined because I hadn’t read much over the past half year. It feels good to make reading progress, but it still feels more like a must and less like a habit…
In July I completed all my goals, in August I didn’t. I learned that I prefer focusing on 1 novel instead of switching between a few, and only reading manga on days I am completely lacking the energy to focus on a novel (or it’s too late in the evening).
Upcoming month, I hope to finish 2 novels. Last year I could only read like 5 pages a day, now I can do 20 or more even on weekdays (when I feel like it).
Let’s all keep up our good work! Even if it’s only 1 page a day, it’s still a step towards our goals!