📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Winter 2026 🌅🔔

Japanese Language Reading
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Week of January 1st

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I decided to use the same format from last challenge. I think it works well for me and I like how visual it is. I forget when, but sometime in 2025, I picked up 教養366 and I decided to read it daily from today. :slight_smile:

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cheerfulbread’s homepost :sun::bread:

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I skipped the fall 2025 challenge and my record on the summer one was quite spotty. Aiming to read more regularly this time around. I’d also like to tackle more various media so I’ll be including manga, jdoramas, novels, games and anime. I’m gonna be ambitious and set goals I likely will not be able to meet, it’s all about the journey, am I right? :joy:

Goals

Manga - 14/20
Jdorama - 0/3
VN game - 0/1
Novel - 0/1
Anime - 0/1

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あけましておめでとうございます！ :snake:

So I read chapter 32 from スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり Volume 4. Slowly starting to finish up the leftover Mangas for now.

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eggyolk’s home post :hatching_chick:

new year, new momentum. excited to read and join a challenge again after a year of being away!

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明けましておめでとう、皆さん！ :tada:
今年もいっぱい読みましょう！

My plan is to read

  • manga: チェンソーマン vol 12-22
  • book: Nier Replicant file 01 (game novel)
  • game: haven’t decided yet but maybe go through Replicant as well → suddenly started Monster Hunter Stories ^^
  • continue with Steins;gate/ 都市伝説解体センター (reading it with a friend once a week)
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:snowman: shitsurei’s manga reading challenge :snow_capped_mountain:

I have just over a 2 year streak of reading every day, so I’ve not popped into this challenge before, but I have been falling off on my manga reading lately. I’d like to read a chapter a day (as long as they’re the types of manga with 10-30 page chapters; I’ll count 20+ pages in any manga with longer chapters).

= read manga
:cross_mark_button: = read a chapter* of manga
:glowing_star: = read a chapter* of physical manga

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First day of the reading challenge! Also happy new year everyone :blue_heart:

Today’s reading: 安達としまむら 第２巻 - 10 pages.

Today was a fairly slow day since my brain hasn’t been focusing too well this past week. I think that’ll improve as I continue the challenge though.

Edit: I also watched the first episode of はたらく細胞 this evening which I’m counting here since I was reading subtitles the whole time, plus there were quite a few pop-ups on screen I had to pause to read. It was very difficult but really interesting!

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1月1日(木)

薬屋のひとりごと5 LN
0.00% → 1.20%

started with the short prologue

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I am enjoying the reading but also enjoying seeing how everyone posts their progress and trying to figure out how this conversation works. Realised that day count is redundant so :hash: will mean how many graded readers I’ve finished and :check_mark: means I finished that reader in this session. I read to myself out loud in the car after the gym; that felt good, I think while I’m at this level I’ll keep doing that. So, we just keep replying and replying until… until we reach nirvana or something, presumably?

:white_check_mark: 2/1/26 :open_book: しあわせ :check_mark: 母の日 :hash: 1 :high_voltage: 2

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1月02日 | :white_check_mark:: N/A | Prev | Next

毎日優しい朝日新聞

? Title Type Progress
:steaming_bowl: こういうのがいい 10 Lvl 25 Manga :play_button: 0% → 27%
  • One more vol of こういうがいい to get up to date. Lots of easy pages then running into a brick wall of lookups because a character starts ranting to themselves in their head.
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:bookmark: Home post // Januar 1 :sunrise: :bell:

・ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 5 (0% → 7%)

Starting the new year with a new book.

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I am starting off on the manga from the version of the ABBC club that I wanted to read and fell way behind on quickly: ゆびさきと恋々 ・ A Sign of Affection :two_hearts: (Absolute Beginner Book Club) - Reading Now! - Japanese Language / Book Clubs - WaniKani Community.

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Day 1:
I was able to put an hour in this afternoon and got from the beginning through the end of the week 4 mark from the ABBC club (pg 41, 43 in Bookwalker). Which is probably 5-10 pages further than I got in all the time I spent on this previously. This one might not take me as long as I initially thought and I am here for that!

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Alright, time to step up with my reading. My main goal is to go through the tadoku lvl 0 and 1 graded readers, continue with the ABBC, continue with the other manga I’m reading, and Satori.
I’m going to aim for January and February, and If I feel confident continue into March.

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I read two level 2 stories.

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Jan 1st.

I’m gonna look for a better formatting, but for now:

Lvl 0 Graded book: 野菜の花
ABBC Week 2: ギャルと恐竜 Episode 1, Pages 13 to 16

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Home Post

First day of reading in 2026 done!
1/1 - As planned, I read the first page of ホビットの冒険, which took me a full 25 minutes… No furigana is a beast! I also did the first of my hiragana crosswords, which was a bit too easy…

Finally, I finished 図書室の怪談, though I’m counting it as a book read in 2025, since I was around 60% through it already (Book #80 for last year, with that including English, Spanish, and Japanese books). I won’t spoil it, since the Children’s Book Club (📚 😈 Home Thread for Ghost Story in the Library / 図書室の怪談 || Children's Novel Club) is still reading, but I really enjoyed this book! I’ll definitely be getting the next one in the series at some point!

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:snowflake: My Home Post

:star2: Club ０１月０１日 Type Progress
:pirate_flag: Natively FLESH&BLOOD 1 light novel 0 ->10/297 pgs
:flashlight: 夜警 novel 142 ->154/308 pgs

Getting started with the year of the novel! :person_running: Flesh & Blood is going to be my challenge read for a while. At L35 on Natively (:face_with_spiral_eyes:) It’s pretty slow to get through (I only read 6 pages with text, got a few freebies at the beginning of the book), so it was nice to combine it with the speedier 夜警 where I was able to read a whole chapter in no time :joy: Now I’m going to get in bed and read a different book, but that’s going to have to go in tomorrow’s update so as not to disturb my routine :person_in_bed:

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January 1

  • からかい上手の高木さん 1
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:house_with_garden: Home post

January 1

  • Read the 5 sentence paragraph at the bottom of day 1 of my new Hobonichi planner. It’s not much, but it’s a start! I suppose reading back my journaling for the day counts too (:
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January 1st

First day complete! Read a little on my lunch break, then more once I got home. I don’t think reading body horror while eating is the best idea, though…

name type pages read time link
:melting_face: ハピネス１ manga 50 → 88 49min natively

I’ll probably delve into the book club discussion because there’s some stuff I’m unclear on, but I’m happy with this as a start! Now, to catch up on my reviews…

:snowflake: (my home post) :snowflake:

(sorry for random double post—I’m still getting used to this interface.)