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

Japanese Language Reading
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元旦

漫画: よつばと Vol.3 第17話 フラワー

:newspaper: NHK NEWS WEB EASY (1 article)
:peanuts: SR Nutshell Grammar (1 episode)
:open_book: ことわざ絵本

骨おり損のくたびれもうけ

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みんな、あけおめ！ :bamboo:

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I want to actually read books again! I’ll have to keep a book at work until after the move so I don’t have to worry about losing it :sweat_smile:

Hanty’s Home Post

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:cloud_with_snow: Twelve’s Home Post :ice_cube:

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20 21 :european_castle: 22 :european_castle: 23 :european_castle: 24 25 26 :european_castle: :black_medium_square: 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
27 :hibiscus: 28 :hibiscus: 29 :hibiscus: 30 31 :black_medium_square: 24 25 26 27 28

I always say that my ultimate goal of learning Japanese is to be able to read lots of books, and then I don’t do much reading. :sweat_smile: So I want to work on changing that.

My goal this year is to read 12 books. Maybe I’ll make it, fingers crossed. Also, I won’t limit myself to just Japanese, because my sidetable stack is getting quite tall… At least they’re books about Japan.

:open_book: Media Status
:broom: 魔女の宅急便 1 Reading
:performing_arts: The Noh Mask Murder Reading
:mag_right: Inspector Imanishi Investigates Reading
:european_castle: 二ノ国 Playing
:hibiscus: Manga / graded readers Read: 7
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I’ll participate as usual! I’ve been tracking well at reading every day, even if it’s sometimes a very small read. I’m less good at referencing my home post though, and hopeless at filling in what I’m reading here.

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Day 1 / Calendar

  • One Piece Vol 9 - 30 pages
  • かがみの孤城 （上）Progressed from 65 to 76%
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home post

1st jan :snowflake:

あけおめ！day one let’s go! keep plodding along with march comes in like a lion, and my other read is the psycho-pass novelisation. being familiar with the material is helpful, but it’s not as technical as i was expecting (thankfully). i’m gonna put gaiden in there for now, but i genuinely have no idea when i’m getting back to it. next week? i’ll edit my next eng book in later

emoji book pages read
:lion: 3月のライオン vol 14 59-91
:mag: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く7外伝(がいでん) x
:rose: psycho-pass novelisation 上 160-172
:crossed_swords: eng book? ?

today’s nhk article was this one (kind of cheating, it’s mostly pictures) plus the entries on 単位(たんい)で and 単(たん)に in aDoAJG

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January 1st - home post

Starting the year with a little manga! 2 chapters of ひとりぼっちの○○生活 and one chapter of ふらいんぐうぃっち volume 1. I’m thinking of maybe trying to read the whole ふらいんぐうぃっち series this year. We’ll see! January 1st is always a day when everything seems possible…

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Main post
Progressing a bit through 新一星’s collection of short stories.
Progress: 12,33% —> 15,15%

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:arrow_backward: Prev (Autumn 2024) | :house: Home | Next :arrow_forward:

First update of 2025! Also somehow @ChristopherFritz spotted me editing my home post to include my tables, that’s some fast reaction time.

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2025-01-01 :guitar: ぼっち・ざ・ろっく :green_book: Manga
:durtle: (IMC)		 :arrow_forward: Chapter 5 - 8
:page_facing_up: 26 Pages		 :hourglass_flowing_sand: 0h52m
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Home Post

:books: Title Read Progress
:guitar: ぼっち・ざ・ろっく 1 p 30%
:rat: 十二支のはじまり all 100%:sparkles:
:scarf: ふくよも 3 ch 48%

I’m not particularly happy I didn’t get through more ぼっち, but rather than trying to convince myself to read more I read some easier stuff instead.

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:bookmark: Home post // January 1 :snowflake::rabbit:

・ 数奇にして模型 NUMERICAL MODELS || 0% → 5% ||

Now that I’ve finished my goals from last year, I can finally start reading with the Saikawa & Moe book club. The penultimate book in the series (9 of 10). Since I’m using bookwalker to read this book I don’t know how many characters there are in the whole book, but apparently the book is 700 pages long. Finished 2 of 3 parts of the first week.

Also read a ton of my favorite scenes from the Honzuki series. Might continue tomorrow because I’m not done yet.

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Uh, I guess I forgot to actually start this yesterday, which is a good start, but anyway. I’ve read two more segments of Case 4 of 逆転裁判 over the last two days

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1月2日(木)

漫画: よつばと Vol.3 第18話 お盆

:newspaper: NHK NEWS WEB EASY (1 article)
:peanuts: SR Nutshell Grammar (1 episode)
:open_book: ことわざ絵本

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January 1st!

Chapter 2 of Bloom Into You today.
I’m enjoying it so far, and pleased that I’m finding it pretty smooth to read straight away sine I usually struggle a bit with the first few chapters of a new series while I get used to the writing style!

(Home Post)

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:stars: Home post :snowflake:

January 1

Done with my first Japanese reading session of 2025! Still trying to figure out my preferred setup for the grammar lookups for these reading sessions but I think it should be a bit more streamlined by the end of this month.

Just want to point out that due to me reading a physical version of this VN, I can’t provide accurate progress numbers except for the number of text boxes. The characters listed are a roughly estimated average per text box and I will use them to loosely track my progress.

Title Chapter Time Progress
:leaves: 薄桜鬼 真改 風華伝 :cherry_blossom: Prologue 15 min 17 text boxes / ~425 characters
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January 1

:dango: Name Progress
:four_leaf_clover: よつばと！４ 27 → 35%
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:snowflake: Home Post :snowflake: – 1月1日

薬屋のひとりごと 3: 12.04% → 25.01%, 3h54m

It was a nice day with plenty of reading time. It is a shame that holidays are no more, and tomorrow is back to work.

During last year’s winter challenge, which was the first and only one I participated in, I finished reading my first novel. It was a great milestone for me. Later in the year, I finished one another and 4 light novel volumes, alongside some manga. This year I want to read many more books, and since this challenge gives me an inspirational boost, I plan to participate throughout the whole year.

One of my wishes is to read all volumes of 薬屋. However, I might get tired of it at some point, and I also want to participate in WK book clubs, so I don’t state it as my goal. My goal this year is to read at least 300 hours (compared to 273 hours last year). 頑張ります！

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It -is- midnight here already, but gonna cram some challenges before going to sleep!
I will put myself a bit out of my comfort zone by reading something challenging, but also slowly, just one page a day!

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Log

January 1st:

:cat: Book Pages
:japanese_goblin: 日本の歴史366 頭のいい子を育てるジュニア 0-1

Januart 2nd:

:cat: Book Pages
:japanese_goblin: 日本の歴史366 頭のいい子を育てるジュニア 1-2
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１月１日 戻る
I didn’t get to read what I wanted, but at least I could find most of my online books on Bookwalker, which I haven’t logged into for over a year. XD

The sad realization that I couldn’t read コンビニ人間 as smoothly (read: at all) dawned on me and that hurt given all the progress I made 2 years ago. But that was a good eye-opener that I need to go back to doing my reviews, even if it means resetting to a lower level.

What I did manage to read was はらぺこあおむし to my kids which I usually just read in English. I also got a set of books geared to 0-3 year olds (~歳の絵本) which basically covers the same things they learn in 保育園 like how to brush your teeth, animals (introducing animal body parts from 3), age-appropriate stories and songs, etc. I read a story from the 3 year old book and the 1 year old book before bedtime.

I meant to read the last volume of Fruits Basket after they went to bed, but I fell asleep too. :laughing: