February 20th to March 27th
A very belated update or rather summary of my daily reading during February and March until the end of the Winter Challenge. Sorry for reviving this thread but I wanted to add my stats to conclude this challenge and make my results accessible.
薄桜鬼 真改 風華伝 
Story progress: Chapter 3 (95%) → Chapter 9 & Epilogue 100%
Time read: + 27 h and 34 minutes
Amount read: + 6639 text boxes; 167’715 characters
I added the detailed daily stats below:
20.02.2025 – 123 text boxes, 3075 characters / 40 minutes
→Finished chapter 3
21.02.2025 – 99 text boxes, 2475 characters / 20 minutes
22.02.2025 – 260 text boxes, 6500 characters / 45 minutes
23.02.2025 – 198 text boxes, 4950 characters / 50 minutes
24.02.2025 – 175 text boxes, 4375 characters / 30 minutes
25.02.2025 – 152 text boxes, 3800 characters / 25 minutes
26.02.2025 – 122 text boxes, 3050 characters / 30 minutes
27.02.2025 – 145 text boxes, 5365 characters / 37 minutes
28.02.2025 – 140 text boxes, 3500 characters / 35 minutes
01.03.2025 – 214 text boxes, 5350 characters / 50 minutes
02.03.2025 – 162 text boxes, 4050 characters / 35 minutes
03.03.2025 – 55 text boxes, 1375 characters / 10 minutes
04.03.2025 – 243 text boxes, 6075 characters / 50 minutes
→Finished chapter 4
05.03.2025 – 88 text boxes, 2200 characters / 20 minutes
06.03.2025 – 87 text boxes, 2175 characters / 25 minutes
07.03.2025 – 48 text boxes, 1200 characters / 20 minutes
08.03.2025 – 164 text boxes, 4100 characters / 40 minutes
09.03.2025 – 113 text boxes, 2825 characters / 40 minutes
10.03.2025 – 103 text boxes, 2575 characters / 30 minutes
11.03.2025 – 131 text boxes, 3275 characters / 35 minutes
12.03.2025 – 165 text boxes, 4125 characters / 40 minutes
13.03.2025 – 106 text boxes, 2650 characters / 32 minutes
14.03.2025 – 128 text boxes, 3200 characters / 35 minutes
15.03.2025 – 200 text boxes, 5000 characters / 60 minutes
→Finished chapter 5
16.03.2025 – 182 text boxes, 4550 characters / 45 minutes
17.03.2025 – 142 text boxes, 3550 characters / 35 minutes
18.03.2025 – 94 text boxes, 2350 characters / 35 minutes
→Finished chapter 6
19.03.2025 – 200 text boxes, 5000 characters / 65 minutes
20.03.2025 – 276 text boxes, 6900 characters / 70 minutes
21.03.2025 – 222 text boxes, 5550 characters / 55 minutes
→Finished chapter 7, started chapter 8
22.03.2025, Readathon: 1418 text boxes, 35450 characters / 330 minutes
→Finished chapter 8, reached 65% of chapter 9
23.03.2025 – 99 text boxes, 2475 characters / 30 minutes
24.03.2025 – 166 text boxes, 4150 characters / 50 minutes
25.03.2025 – 172 text boxes, 4300 characters / 45 minutes
26.03.2025 – 114 text boxes, 2850 characters / 30 minutes
27.03.2025 – 133 text boxes, 3325 characters / 30 minutes
→Finished chapter 9, finished the epilogue
2nd route of 薄桜鬼 finished!
I didn’t expect to finish more than what I set out to do, which was reaching chapter 4, but thanks to the Readathon I managed to surpass my goal by a wide margin.
While 40% of the route I read was familiar as I read through it the last time as well, the other 60% were unfamiliar territory (in Japanese). It took me 5 months of daily reading in 2024 to get through the 1st route which is even a bit shorter than the one I read this time. In contrast, I was able to finish this route in 3 months.
Despite the familiar 40%, I did more lookups on grammar this time around which halted my speed but my stamina was better because I was capable of reading more than 15 minutes each session which helped progressing relatively quickly still.
By finishing my 2nd route of 薄桜鬼 I read roughly 260’590 characters and for a total of 51 hours and 49 minutes during the Winter Challenge. (According to my calculations and tracking app.) I’m quite satisfied with my result. 
After March 27, I decided to take a break from reading before the next Read Every Day Challenge that would start on April 1st. However, I didn’t end up participating in the Spring Challenge at all because I was sick throughout most of April, had trouble resuming my Japanese reading habit in May and decided against joining late.