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

[Redglare]

Home post // January 31

・ ソフィア、君は死んでいないのか？(75% → 100%)

I finished book! Second one of the year for me. I don’t think I was the target audience. Tho I saw several reviews on bookmeter mentioning what I was thinking, that the book didn’t really make sense. Even so, it seems like they’re looking forward to the/a sequel. I’ll pass xD 2/5 stars. I did learn some new words tho, it didn’t hold back on the kanji.

I start new book:

・ 世界から猫が消えたなら || (0% → 24%) || page 54/221 ||

This book from 2012 got the Honya Taishou in 2013. Just 221 pages is not super long when it’s Natively level 27 so I hope I can finish it during the weekend. I still haven’t started Saikawa & Moe book club assignment yet, so hopefully I’ll get that done during the weekend too.

[Pflaumentee]

HOME POST

Last day of January, it’s crazy how time flies!

Had a really lazy day with lots of reading and WaniKani. Right now I am at a point where I start to question my ability to learn Japanese since there have been a lot of Kanji which I apparently forgot over the time I took a break.
I guess it’s natural, yet it’s frustrating.

But! Being able to (kinda) smoothly read Manga and Novels in Japanese has been so cool, I could have only dreamed of doing that two years ago. I don’t want to forget how far I have come, even if it’s easy to feel down by seeing how some people just seem to breeze through Japanese. We never know what went into that after all.

Let’s keep on keeping on ^{and sorry for the rambling}

On another note, I learned the word 文ぶん 庫こ 本ぼん , which sounds extremely cute in my opinion. And it’s a pocket sized book, so it fits perfectly.

	Book	Pages
	世界から猫が消えたなら	50 - 55
	グッドナイト、アイラブユー 1	57 - 107

[Pflaumentee]

So I guess you will finish 世界から猫が消えたなら before I do! Would love to hear your opinion on it, maybe I should start putting more effort in xD

[Redglare]

@araigoshi

I have a 3 day weekend this weekend.

@Pflaumentee

So I guess you will finish 世界から猫が消えたなら before I do! Would love to hear your opinion on it, maybe I should start putting more effort in xD

oh!

Will probably write something in my daily updates!

[lifev]

Home Post – 1月31日

薬屋のひとりごと 5: 16.86% → 18.78%, 28m

Finished the chapter. I plan to read more tomorrow.

[Natsuha]

January 30
Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 2
Running around in the newly available areas doing quests and trying not to miss too much things.

One page of Konosuba Vol.1. I don’t know but I think the book is rather boring.

[araigoshi]

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I read… 5-ish pages of 本好きの下剋上. My brain wasn’t with it today at all, only noting it since it keeps the streak.

Date	Name	Type	Progress	Time
2025-01-31	本好きの下剋上第一部５	Jr Novel	<1 Chapter 5 pages	0h20m

[lucylavelle]

January 28th!
2 chapters of シャドーハウス

January 29th!
1 Chapter of シャドーハウス (Caught up the the club!)

January 30th!
1 Chapter of 鋼の錬金術師

January 31st!
Lots of reading today! 4 chapters of ひとりぼっちの○○生活 to finish off the first volume. I really wanted to like this one, but I never quite got into it. I keep trying to make myself enjoy 4-koma manga, but its just not the right format for me I guess…
I also read 2 chapters of からかい上手の 元 高木さん

(Home Post)

[ThiagoIanuch]

Home Post | My Natively

１月３１日

	Book	Type	Progress	Time
	よつばと! 4 | L16	Manga	10% → 14%	10m
	無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31	Light Novel	6.12% → 6.12%	5m

Reading progress tracker

** Only light novels **

[Izabelle]

I read one News Web Easy article, one Watanoc article, and one level 2 story.

[coraldragonstar]

Home Post

I read 1 chapter of 名探偵コナン V19 yesterday, and 1 chapter of Major V6 today, and that closes out the first month of the challenge for me.

Totals for January:
Completed - 2 volumes of コナン, 1 volume of Major
In Progress - コナン V19 67% complete, Major V6 68% complete

[mint-frog]

home post

１月３０日

	book	pages read
	恋せぬふたり	19

And about 1-1.5 hours of 私のリアルは充実しすぎている .

１月３１日

	book	pages read
	わたしの幸せな結婚 1	244 - 256

Had a burst of motivation yesterday evening, because I wanted to try finishing watakon in January, but that was unrealistic . Made some good progress though!

[Lisaveeta]

2月1日(土)

漫画: よつばと Vol 9 第59話 焼肉 + 第60話 らいきゃく

NHK NEWS WEB EASY (1 article)
SR NEWS (マウスの受精らんを宇宙ステーション(ISS)へ 打ち上げ決定
ことわざ絵本 (岡目八目)

文法: 完全マスター・文法問題対策3級
23.〜なくてもかまわない

[Jintor]

2月1日 | Completed: 1 children’s book, 7 vols of manga

?	Title	Type	Progress
	日本へようこそエルフさん。 1	Light Novel	80% → 89%
	僕の奥さんはちょっと怖い 1	Manga	60% → 100% COMPLETE
	甘々と稲妻 9	Manga	0% → 72%

• Weekend, weekend!
• Got drawn into a long-ish action sequence in Elf-san and by the time I emerged I had gotten surprisingly far in.
• Finished 奥さん, it’s okay. I’ll keep reading the ones I have and watch out for a sale.
• Started Sweetness and Lightning 9 and just blitzing through it. It’s a wonderful series

Finished in Jan:
1 book

• Yotsuko 2

7 manga

• How Do We Relationship 1
• Sweetness and Lightning 8
• The Two of Us are Polar Opposites 1
• Eat the Grill of our Love 8
• Bloom Into You 1
• My Dress-Up Darling 5
• My Wife is a Little Bit Scary 1

And most of the GBA version of Ace Attorney. 1 case to go and I can claim to have finished the DS version.

Links in my Natively

[Midnightblue]

Home post

February 1

I’m in the middle of adjusting my sleep schedule which resulted in me being rather tired today. I did several short sessions as I couldn’t focus for too long and managed to read an hour in total – I’m satisfied with today’s progress.

Title	Chapter	Time	Progress
薄桜鬼 真改 風華伝	Chapter 2	60 min	169 text boxes / ~4225 characters

[Malinkal]

February 1st:

Malinkal - Home post

	Book	Pages
	コーヒーが冷めないうちに - L26 Novel	pg.214 - pg.316
	一瞬を生きる君を、僕は永遠に忘れない。- L31 Novel	pg.16
	お探し物は図書室まで - L29 Novel	19% - 24%
	ノルウェイの森 (1) - L32 Novel	pg.42 - 56

Lots of reading today! Mostly from コーヒーが冷めないうちに. I wasn’t planning to finish it today to start with, but as it went on after a while I thought I might have been able to get it done before tomorrow. However, I’m tired. I can’t be bothered to finish the last 30ish pages tonight, so I’ll do it tomorrow. 100 pages is great though!

As an aside, while reading some ノルウェイの森, I realised each page was taking me probably at least twice as long as from コーヒーが, so I decided to take a picture of a page from each. See for yourself!
(Page 1 is a fairly typical page from ノルウェイの森, given the density of prose and the lack of spacing for dialogue. Page 2 is lighter than most for コーヒーが, and a lot lighter than for some descriptive sections, but there’s still lots of pages with not much more text than this. Crazy difference! No wonder the former takes me like 2.5-3 minutes a page and the latter 1 minute! Even though ノルウェイの森 is 文庫本 and コーヒーが is 単行本!

[Neon_Kitsune]

Home

And so, January is gone. This was the first time I had ever dedicated myself to actually reading something every day and I feel like I’ve improved a bit! While I did miss two days, I still feel like I did pretty well.

1/22:NHK Easy News articles, Bunpro reading practice, Tadoku stories (2)
1/23: NHK Easy News article, Short Stories for Japanese Learners - vol 2, ふくよも 1
1/24: ふくよも1
1/25: headache + busy + tired = no reading
1/26: NHK Easy News article, Short Stories for Japanese Learners - vol 2
1/27: NHK Easy News article, Tadoku story
1/28: NHK Easy News articles
1/29: SR Four Seasons: Summer
1/30: NHK Easy News articles
1/31: SR Human Japanese

[feralfuton]

2025年2月1日(土)

今日はベトナムのビールのレポートを読みました。今夜はチーズスイートホームの第３２章を読みます。

ベトナムのビール…(n5)Vietnamese beer

[DIO-Berry]

January 31

	Book	Pages
	STEEL BALL RUN 10	50 - 55

Had a busy day that was tainted by other stressors and ended up staying up until like 5:30am attempting to relax by playing bg3… Going to go to bed before then tonight for sure at least. Hopefully I’ll be asleep before 4am

[Lisaveeta]

@Neon_Kitsune

While I did miss two days, I still feel like I did pretty well.

You did really well!