📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Winter 2025 ❄🐇

1月13日

? Title Type Progress
:cherry_blossom: 日本へようこそエルフさん。 1 Light Novel :arrow_forward: 14% → 17%
:guitar: ボッチ1 Manga :arrow_forward: 102/119 (78% → 85%)
:beer: 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 1 Manga :pause_button: 74%
  • A bit more エルフさん1, steady progress.
  • The second chapter of the week’s reading for ボッチ, nearly done again!
  • Will probably read another chapter of 付き合って tonight, maybe two to finish it, we’ll see. Busy day ahead.
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:space_invader: Home Post | My Natively :space_invader:

1月12日

:space_invader: Book Type Progress Time
:shamrock: よつばと! 2| L16 Manga 87% → 100% 28m
:magic_wand: 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 Light Novel 2.52% → 2.52% 10m

I finished volume 2 of Yotsubato.

Reading progress tracker
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:star2: Club 01月12日 Type Progress
:wolf: Natively 人狼サバイバル children’s novel 98 → 115/224 pgs
:lollipop: ふしぎ駄菓子屋 vol. 3 children’s novel 34 → 39/154 pgs

Think I tired myself out with my reading binge yesterday and didn’t feel like doing extra today.

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13/01 - Second Day of Challenge

Reflections/Room for Improvement

I read a whole chapter of BabySteps in one day, which I don’t think I’ve ever done for a manga before, which I guess reflecting on it now is quite the achievement. I didn’t have time for a second reading of the chapter to reinforce vocab/grammar/sentence meanings as juggling the speaking and listening challenge as well is quite difficult.

I had been looking up almost every word I was unsure of, which I have come to realize is not a very efficient or fun way to read. I’m thinking of restricting myself to only 2 or 3 words max on each page.

Also, I am quite fearful on running out of content to read, as sadly I’m not too willing to spend money on buying amazon kindle books, so I was wondering if there are any good book websites that have free books/mangas to read. There are some free indie mangas on amazon which I’ve tried and have enjoyed, but was curious to what else was out there. The only one I currently know of is Satori reader, which you have to pay a subscription to get the full experience.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and I’ll update again in a few days. And thanks very much to anyone who’s reading this, I’m still a complete beginner so I apologize for inconsistencies or similar, including the bad quality of this update post, quite rushed right now. THANKS AND GL

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13th jan :snowflake:

two short chapters of 3月のライオン, which didn’t take long but i saw there’s a shogi column at the end of the next one and thought better to save that for tomorrow :sweat_smile: made some good progress on psycho-pass with the spare time though. lots of exposition and one extremely jarring nsfw dialogue exchange that didn’t make it into the show.

today’s nhk article was this one (bookshops) plus the entries on といったところだ and といって in aDoAJG

bookwalker! they do free volumes of stuff all the time (either temporary or to keep) and there’s a wide selection. i also use cmoa, which has its own free reading section, but it’s a lot easier to stumble into nsfw content on cmoa (there’s plenty of crossover of works between the two sites, but cmoa is definitely a lot more lenient on that second point).

worth checking out the bookwalker freebies thread too, everyone in there is very nice and discounts get shared often along with free works!

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Home Post :snowflake: | Week 2

1月12日 (日)

  • :cn: (2000-w) 冰雪美人 (1-10/41)
  • 蟲師 2 (62-100%)
  • Christmas Tina :video_game: :cn:

Home Post :snowflake: | Week 3

1月13日 (月)

  • :cn: (2000-w) 冰雪美人 (10-20/41)
  • ひとりぼっちの○○生活 1 (29-42%)
  • 夜警 (7-14%)
  • Christmas Tina :video_game: :cn:

I also picked up 薫る花は凛と咲く, which is time-limited free for Vol.1. I should have expected that the volume ends in a cliffhanger.

蟲師 has trial up to Vol.3, but no actual cliffhanger in-between.

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January 11

January 12

:cat: Book Pages
:horse_racing: STEEL BALL RUN 8 71 - 73

Busy days

I hate discourse

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:yellow_heart: Home Post | Study Log | My Natively :yellow_heart:


January 13

:dango: Name Progress
:four_leaf_clover: よつばと!4 86% → 100% :white_check_mark:
:house: 約束のネバーランド2 0% → 14%
:polar_bear: しろくまカフェ4 39% → 55%
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January 13

Stuck at home today, waiting for the plumber, so…

Title Progress
One Piece Vol 11 78 → 93 pages
風立ちぬ 54 → 74 % (the edition I’m reading has the novella itself start at 54%)
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:house: home post :house:

1月12日

:books: book pages read
:cherry_blossom: わたしの幸せな結婚 1 234 - 234.5

1月13日

No energy for books, but I’ve read some of the Steins;Gate VN. The forum threads were a bit of a pain. Also, funnily enough, there were literally 0 voiced lines today, so it was really just reading text.

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:books: Title Read Progress
:cat2: スーと鯛ちゃん 3 ch 39 26%

Token effort.

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January 13th - Home post

ふらいんぐうぃっち today too, one chapter as always, plus a little of Aokana VN. I want to read more and more and more of this VN!

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January 12
Today I played a bit Final Fantasy VII Remake Yuffie dlc.

I did the kanji, grammar and reading part of a N1 mock test. Also read some manga magazines.

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I think I have it in my backlog. I should probably read it one day.

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:snowman: HOME POST :snowflake:

Slow day, started reading Flying Witch again since it’s such a cozy feelgood Manga. The chapter was pretty easy too, almost no lookups, which is nice for a change.

:snowflake: Book Pages
:black_cat: ふらいんぐうぃっち(4) start - 31
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:bookmark: Home post // January 13 :snowflake::rabbit:

・ Silent Witch 8 (31% → 34%)

I think I spend too much time on listening practice and forum-ing. Maybe I should go Vanilla-style banning myself from all distractions.

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Your table, it broken :face_holding_back_tears:

If you take away the empty line it should fix itself.

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1月14日(火)

漫画: よつばと Vol 5 第29話 てつだい

:newspaper: NHK NEWS WEB EASY (1 article)
:dolls: SR Human Japanese (1 episode)
:open_book: ことわざ絵本

帯に短したすきに長し


文法: 完全マスター文法問題対策3級
02. 〜やすい・〜にくい

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:snowflake: Home Post :snowflake: – 1月13日

薬屋のひとりごと 4: 0.0% → 2,84%, 0h37m

Barely started, but here it is! The new volume.

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一得一失
I just knew there’d have to be a 四字熟語 or ことわざ for that!

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