# 📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2026 ⛰ 🌊 **URL:** \ **Category:** Reading\ **Created:** [June 15, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711 "2026-06-15T13:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![YandrosTheSane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yandrosthesane/32/728374_2.png) [@YandrosTheSane](https://community.wanikani.com/u/YandrosTheSane)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/401 "2026-07-16T18:05:16Z")
[Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/33) | 🦋 | Book | Read | Edge | Pages | Reread | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 🔪 | [ひぐらしのなく頃に 第一話 鬼隠し編 (上)](https://learnnatively.com/book/e3d6301dc9/) | 4 - 18 | 101 | 328 | Yes | Found out the hard way that there’s no internet at all during my low cost plane trip so read without any parsing help… and it was okay(ish). Not being able to check the readings is definitely a gripe for me even if the meanings were all clear. Nobody cares if you got a kanji reading correct right ? Still I was upset not knowing… guess I’m really rigid about it as they mock me. Anyways… catching up on the thread… there’s a lot of love incoming… ---
**Author:** ![Kami\_Neko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kami_neko/32/812544_2.png) [@Kami\_Neko](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kami_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/402 "2026-07-16T20:09:32Z")
> [@Zakarius](#): > > Why must it always be this way with artbooks 😭 cause they are good ! And thank you for starting this again…I missed the artbooks 🥹 > [@YandrosTheSane](#): > > there’s a lot of love incoming… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/7/1/f/71fcacfbe11346cad9b2b37e13e148fe81fbf1cb.jpeg) 16th july update ! 😼 Read 5 pages of はなにあらし１ and realized I didn’t need to re-read it as it mostly goes like episode to episode about different things… Read 2 bunpro reading practice passages (1 N4 and 1 N5) and I listened to some songs and re-learned a vocab ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/f/0/7/f07c11e554eceb14a196809d760e18c2fd1671ae.png) I only knew about coaxing and soft voice…what the meow is wheedling ?! 🫪 ---
**Author:** ![lattepatatte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/lattepatatte/32/828686_2.png) [@lattepatatte](https://community.wanikani.com/u/lattepatatte)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/403 "2026-07-16T20:17:43Z")
**July 16** | Image | Book | Progress | | --- | --- | --- | | ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/7/a/b/7ab4cc012623b4a5dc054405cda972ca941c4547.jpeg) | [薬屋のひとりごと 2](https://learnnatively.com/book/04738a9ced/) | Chapter 2 (15 pages) | Gotta get back in the flow with Kusuriya 🙂‍↕️ Besides that, I have also played some Zelda Wind Waker and Xenoblade in Japanese today Zelda Wind Waker was one of the first games I have ever played as a child and throughout my life, I have replayed it _many_ times. So I gotta be honest, I’m oftentimes just skipping through dialogue as I know the rough content anyway, but it _is_ kinda cool to sometimes see it in its original language now ---
**Author:** ![MarnieDEB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/marniedeb/32/488656_2.png) [@MarnieDEB](https://community.wanikani.com/u/MarnieDEB)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/404 "2026-07-16T20:44:27Z")
Today: finished Chapter 45 of よつばと！ This is one of my favourite chapters, mostly because it’s full of spontaneous interpretive dance about cakes. ---
**Author:** ![Redglare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/redglare/32/717152_2.png) [@Redglare](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Redglare)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/405 "2026-07-16T21:44:32Z")
🔖 July 14-16 Book: 本好きの下剋上 ハンネローレの貴族院五年生3 [L32](https://learnnatively.com/book/b67acbad74/) (367 pages) Progress: 52% → 55% I haven’t kept track on when I read how much, but I’ve done a few pages here and there it seems :3 ---
**Author:** ![VioletMoon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/violetmoon/32/814145_2.png) [@VioletMoon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/VioletMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/406 "2026-07-16T21:57:05Z")
**7月16日** あしたは土曜日 春・夏 - 7 pages (16%) ---
**Author:** ![froggywhiskers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/froggywhiskers/32/810148_2.png) [@froggywhiskers](https://community.wanikani.com/u/froggywhiskers)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/407 "2026-07-16T22:56:34Z")
**Day 16: 7月16日** [Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/28) Another chapter of まいにち鳥びより today, this time all about ducks! 🦆 🦆 ✨ I’m really enjoying the challenge of reading this, and I think the lovely artwork and the infectious enthusiasm that comes across in the writing really help me to stick with it. I definitely need to stop leaving it until late in the evening to start reading though because where I’m at right now I need a bit more energy for it! I reckon this will be one that I’ll return to in a year or two to measure how far my reading has improved (hopefully it will have done at least a little bit by then!) so I feel like I’m laying down a nice benchmark for myself right now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jintor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jintor/32/627217_2.png) [@Jintor](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jintor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/408 "2026-07-17T01:11:49Z")
**July 14-15-16-17** **✅ 1 novel, 2 manga vol** | **?** | **Title** | **Type** | **Progress** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 🪨 | [よつばと！15](https://learnnatively.com/book/13ffd98dbe/) | Lvl 17 manga | ✅ **COMPLETED** | | 🎭 | [清水さん4](https://learnnatively.com/book/4738d23a91/) | Lvl 25 LN | ▶ 0% → 19% | | 🛍 | [お兄ちゃんおしまい！２](https://learnnatively.com/book/8211b4fbc9/) | Lvl 20 manga | ▶ 0% → 7% | - After pausing 安達としまむら、I went for a palette cleanser with よつばと. - Started 清水さん4 as an ‘easy novel read’, but finding my attention span is still wandering… - Started Onimai 2 as another easy manga… ---
**Author:** ![gigazol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/gigazol/32/825119_2.png) [@gigazol](https://community.wanikani.com/u/gigazol)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/409 "2026-07-17T02:40:30Z")
７月１６日 夏子の酒 1 pgs 166 – 190 / 451 > [@Zakarius](#): > > Happy birthday Gigazol dog!! 🐕 🦴 > [@DIO-Berry](#): > > Happy birthday to the baby!! > > He looks remarkably like my childhood dog He says thank you 🙂 ![IMG_2333](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/9/a/d/9adc36c38cf9f704b5cc523c16db36a21515f769.jpeg) I feel like a lot of black and white dogs have a similar color pattern. I’ve definitely seen a few of his doppelgangers out and about…the funny thing is, he has like 12 siblings (rescue) and they all look totally different! ---
**Author:** ![Roags](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/roags/32/767253_2.png) [@Roags](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Roags)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/410 "2026-07-17T03:56:04Z")
July 16th | **Title** | **Type of Reading** | **Amount** | | --- | --- | --- | | **あの娘にキスと白百合を** | Manga | Chapter 1, Pages 13 to 22 | Took me a while, this manga has way more new words and grammar. I feel the jump from L1\* to L2\*, and it’s only the first chapter 😅 ---
**Author:** ![enbyboiwonder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/enbyboiwonder/32/651773_2.png) [@enbyboiwonder](https://community.wanikani.com/u/enbyboiwonder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 4:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/411 "2026-07-17T04:49:12Z")
♢７月１６日♢ Read: ・ドラクエ幻の大地 Quest 19~20 ・unused text for a sunken ghost ship in DQB2 on TCRF Reading the VI manga while the VI event is going on in Smash/Grow is kind of confusing, especially as I’m in more or less the same place in the manga as the event is, and it’s already kind of confusing in the first place with the whole real-world/dream-world thing. They got off in the chapter numbering. The 目次 correctly has the chapters as 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, but the chapters themselves say 18, 19, 20, 20, 21. Made me think _I_ had gotten off for a second there, but no. Played: ・ドラクエⅨ「星空の守り人」 (180:51 ⇒ 188:57) Did a lot of spelunking and got rid of quite a few of the new maps I got these past two days, including several without opening because I could tell by the name that they’d be low rank. But though I completed every single map I opened, I don’t think I got a single drop from any of them. Equinox was dropping dragontail whips like _candy_ yesterday. In any case, I found two new environ words! 地下道, which is Tunnel, and 雪道, which I’m pretty sure is Snowhall. Also, I’ve still got 37 unattempted maps… Though I did defeat Trauminator with nothing equipped for that one quest and gained Mortamor’s map, and also attained the accolade for 5,000 battle victories! I left off trying to get the gem jamborees’ special drop for another story quest. They really weren’t kidding about it being ときどき. They’re already a rare spawn, and they already love fleeing, and now ya gotta make the _drop_ rare, too? Augh. ---
**Author:** ![feralfuton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/feralfuton/32/726830_2.png) [@feralfuton](https://community.wanikani.com/u/feralfuton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 11:16am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/412 "2026-07-17T11:16:16Z")
２０２６年７月１７日(金) | 👽 | Book | Natively lvl | Pages | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 🍲 | [ケサランなにがしとスープ屋さん ２](https://learnnatively.com/book/4d37734d6e/) | 17 | 21 - 28 | | 🐱 | [おじさまと猫１０](https://learnnatively.com/book/034746c9c3/) | 17 | 137 - 162 | | 🤘 | [ゆびさきと恋々７](https://learnnatively.com/book/3846b422d0/) | 20 | 31 - 44 | ---
**Author:** ![Lisaveeta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/lisaveeta/32/697163_2.png) [@Lisaveeta](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Lisaveeta)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 11:16am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/413 "2026-07-17T11:16:20Z")
**7月17日(金)** ![IMG_0474](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/9/f/4/9f4ea93e4b2fe0fdf9c21b981347fb6b778cc2b7.jpeg) **猫とメガネ 蔦屋敷の不可解な遺言** 104/232 _Not much time to read today as my sitting down time today was spent in the dentist’s chair_ ---
**Author:** ![Zakarius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/zakarius/32/834987_2.png) [@Zakarius](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Zakarius)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/414 "2026-07-17T13:20:47Z")
🌊 ☀ **July 17th** ☀ 🌊 **笠松紫浪 全木版画集** Read the next page - up to page 10. Getting closer to the art section now, this book pulls no punches on the obscure words or kanji usages. I’m learning quite a few new words! But not sure how long I will remember them for 😅 Also noticed that the book uses 渡邊 for Watanabe rather than 渡辺 and searching for the difference I found the Watanabe ukiyo-e store!! Here’s [the website](https://hangasw.com/), it looks like they specialise in doing reprints of classic ukiyo-e prints now. It’s not in the original location - as the 1923 Kanto earthquake destroyed the original building (along with so many artworks, lost forever 😭) - but so making note of this location if I ever get to Japan. > **More Watanabe** > > ![watanabeandfriends](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/9/f/c/9fcfcc3d65c7a49445999621a3220fe80da3bda0.jpeg) > > This photo has appeared in both the Hasui and Kasamatsu artbooks, the only artist on there I’m not familiar with is Ito. It seems he focused more on 美人画 and I’ve never been all that interested in artworks of people - but having a look it does seem he did some landscapes too, will have to research more! > > Anyway I added a little name tag for each person (hopefully it is legible). This photo is of them all outside, what I think, is the original workshop. * * * > [@gigazol](#): > > He says thank you 🙂 Give him lots of fuss from me! ---
**Author:** ![Ditto20](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ditto20/32/517934_2.png) [@Ditto20](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Ditto20)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/415 "2026-07-17T13:23:11Z")
2026/07/16 Pages 124-153 of 幼馴染は、にゃあと鳴いてスカートのなか ---
**Author:** ![Midnightblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/midnightblue/32/783799_2.png) [@Midnightblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Midnightblue)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/416 "2026-07-17T18:14:06Z")
🌊 [Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/45) **July 17** | Title | Type | Time | Progress | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 🛒 [コンビニ人間](https://learnnatively.com/book/2f20d58780/) | Novel | 18 min | 49/161p. → 57/161p. | | 🎸 [キャロル&チューズデイ](https://learnnatively.com/book/47f2c3dad8/) vol. 2 | Manga | 23 min | 55/170p. → 98/170p. | ---
**Author:** ![lattepatatte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/lattepatatte/32/828686_2.png) [@lattepatatte](https://community.wanikani.com/u/lattepatatte)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/417 "2026-07-17T18:36:26Z")
**July 17** | Image | Book | Progress | | --- | --- | --- | | ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/5/8/0/5801c722d4987852b3332cef3b8bd4600334c2ad.jpeg) | [ヤニねこ 1](https://learnnatively.com/book/383bb5c739/ "ヤニねこ 1 ヤンマガ") | 35 pages | | ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/c/5/2c55c750f922f7064510e54372c844f2cbf80132.jpeg) | [攻殻機動隊 1](https://learnnatively.com/book/ad1d8e9eb7/) | Prologue (12 pages) | Yani Neko (Chainsmoker Cat) is the first anime I’ve been watching in a long time. It is pretty disgusting but at the same time, you want to keep watching (and you do feel for the characters trapped in their situations!). It’s quite surprising in how much detail an anime shows drug abuse and addiction - while packaging it in cat girls to sell it all 🗿 The first three volumes can currently be read for free on bookwalker, so I checked it out. Not sure if I actually want to continue this, the spark hasn’t quite caught on as with the anime I also got a coupon on bookwalker with a 40% discount on buying a first volume of any book series. I had 攻殻機動隊 (Ghost in the Shell) on my mind for a while and now that there is a new anime adaptation of it, I saw it a bit more online again. Since the manga is usually pretty expensive, the 40% discount was actually pretty good - got it for 900 Yen instead of the usual 1500 Yen ---
**Author:** ![rurakojayn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/rurakojayn/32/717716_2.png) [@rurakojayn](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rurakojayn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/418 "2026-07-17T19:09:53Z")
| 🪵[home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/355) | | \color{#faebf9}\textbf{book} | | \color{#faebf9}\textbf{pages} | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 7月17日 | | [**天は赤い河のほとり** 1](https://learnnatively.com/series/0257ec56ce/) | | 41 - 77 | ---
**Author:** ![pocketcalamity](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/pocketcalamity/32/762440_2.png) [@pocketcalamity](https://community.wanikani.com/u/pocketcalamity)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/419 "2026-07-17T19:59:47Z")
🌻 7月16日 ✅ 読み終わった本： 漫画2巻、読み切り0作, 連載漫画1話 🏠 [home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/49) || 📚 [natively](https://learnnatively.com/user/pocketcalamity/jpn/) | status | | name | natively lvl | type | pages / characters | time | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 第8話 | 📻 | [聞き耳ラジオ](https://www.satorireader.com/series/kiki-mimi-rajio) | n/a | Satori Reader | 421 char | 15min | Late update: fell asleep on the couch reading 聞き耳ラジオ. It’s been a really long week. This weekend is relatively full, too, so it may not be a plethora of studying but I’ll do my best! ---
**Author:** ![YandrosTheSane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yandrosthesane/32/728374_2.png) [@YandrosTheSane](https://community.wanikani.com/u/YandrosTheSane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/420 "2026-07-17T21:00:09Z")
[Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711/33) | 🦋 | Book | Read | Edge | Pages | Reread | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 🔪 | [ひぐらしのなく頃に 第一話 鬼隠し編 (上)](https://learnnatively.com/book/e3d6301dc9/) | 79 | 101 | 328 | Yes | Work issues so I took a short reread for today. [Previous page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711.md?page=20) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2026/74711.md?page=22)