Like I mentioned before, I have way to many books 
Also I don’t have a shelve so…
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I am enjoying so much more of my knitting books I bought over the past 20 years LOL ! Currently making this one from the 2002 winter edition.
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This is my little “collection”. Since I am still stuck on Genki I (too mutch other stuff going on in my life) I am still not able to read any of the manga.
But I hope that will change in the coming year! (Goal is to finish Genki until october and visit japan by then to buy a lot of books)
Wish me luck. 
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Here’s my « Japan » shelf. I hope to soon read the originals of the books present on it.
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Taniguchi is great!
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Oh i’m right now reading 夜カフェ.
Actually i have been reading it for quite some time, but i mostly start other books and this one always ends up on the end of the line again.
How did you like it of you have finished it already?
I saw there are quite a lot of volumes
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I wonder if reading how to use Git in anime form will make it easier or harder to understand
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such a small collection i didn’t even bother standing them up
i’ve almost finished 伝記 so i’m looking forward to moving on to the others!
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I wonder about things like that since I changed my OS’s language to Japanese and it’s sometimes not easy to read the tiny kanji.
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Changing your OS language from English to a language you’re learning is a good way to immerse into that language. Unless you’re actually doing any development work, then suddenly you get error messages in a non-English language, and when you try to StackOverflow it, you get far fewer results than from the English error messages 
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Nice! You could even use that photo as a double hitter for books and the orange cat trading post!
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Indeed, my collection has grown a bit since January 2021, so here’s an updated picture 
It might seem a little weird that volumes 8 to 22 of Demon Slayer are missing, but that’s because after volume 7, I wanted to continue reading, but at that time, the Mugen Train hype was still real and it was really hard to get most of the volumes with the events of Mugen Train or the arc that followed after it! So I got volumes 8 to 23 digitally, read them all within a week and then later ordered the physical version of the final volume just because I really enjoyed the series 
In the top row on the very right is the special edition blu ray of the Mugen Train movie btw
It might be hard to tell but the one piece volumes are in a box - it’s the first Japanese box set that contains the East Blue saga. It only arrived today and I’m very excited to get reading!
Also posted some pictures of that box earlier today in the POLL thread if anyone wants to see
Lastly, I just wanted to say that I still enjoy looking at everyone’s collections here! 
Whether they’re large or small collections, I like all of them ^^
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A bit offtopic, but I recognize 2 textbooks on your shelf: げんき I and then とびら. Did you have any textbook study in-between or did you start とびら right after げんき I?
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My history with Japanese textbooks is that, in my case, they’ve been pretty much wasted money since I can’t keep up with them for too long - though that is a lesson that took me a while to learn and just accept. I actually got Genki 1 in early 2019 when I did my second attempt at learning Japanese which failed after maybe two weeks. In 2020, I decided to give learning Japanese another shot, but this time I would try out different methods. That’s when I ultimately stuck with WaniKani and Bunpro. I basically used Bunpro + their many linked resources to study grammar
Since I did hear many good things about Tobira here on WaniKani and I was still interested in reading the main texts and their grammar explanations, I eventually decided to purchase this textbook as well. At that point I had maybe finished N5 and N4 grammar on Bunpro, I’m not entirely sure. But yeah, I didn’t jump from Genki 1 to Tobira. I think there were even quite a few people who struggle at first with the jump from Genki 2 to Tobira since the level in Tobira is a bit higher (but I can’t judge it myself since I never used Genki 2)
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Tobira is roughly designed to follow directly on from Genki (and Nakama) 2 - even to the extent that the Tobira website specifically gives a list of the ten or so kanji which are assumed knowedge for Tobira but which aren’t taught in Genki (or Nakama). Since Tobira is entirely in Japanese outside of the explanations of grammar points, it does feel like a significant jump in difficulty, though it’s also the case that if you were paying attention in Genki (or Nakama), you ought to be able to follow along reasonably well.
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((Hello I’m necro’ing this because it was requested in the other thread I made))
Ooh! Is that 新完全マスター N1 文法? The color’s a bit off but
Do you like kinda old/traditional Japanese things? I get that impression from which books you have (although むらさきのスカートの女 is more recent from a Google search)
That really is a lot!
I spy a lot of like books with lgbtq+ themes?
At least one thing on pro wrestling, possibly many
Really a variety of books in general
Do you have any particular favorites?
I feel like I would have to play a guessing game here? The titles are hard to read. I can definitely spot よつばと and Orange. Maybe Assassination Classroom? And Noragami and Attack on Titan. Definitely a couple volumes of Not Lives (has a very recognizable color scheme). Skull Eater and Usagi Drop?
Lol it’s not of Beethoven, but I still have the biography of Mary Cassatt that I wrote in 3rd grade
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Also for anyone interested, this is what my bookshelf looks like:
https://community.wanikani.com/t/let-me-yell-at-your-bookshelves/56822?u=gearaid
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My Japan shelf. If I was buying things now, there would be a lot less CDs and paper dictionaries, but when I first took an interest in the language, those how it was done. The blade on top is a WWII bayonet, made by Toyota.
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It is a lot, huh! I think at some point I just accepted 積ん読 into my heart indefinitely - I heard about bookwalker and got into ebooks after that post though so the rate of increase probably slowed volume-wise at least…
Did you mention lgbtq+ themes and pro wrestling out of particular interest for those things?
If so, probably my favorite things I’ve read so far in Japanese related to lgbtq+ themes are:
- 不可解なぼくのすべてを, a warm and pretty easy to read manga about a maid cafe that’s a haven for trans/non-binary/questioning people.（there was a book club for this）
- しまなみ誰そ彼, a very airy and pretty manga set in Onomichi about a boy questioning his sexuality finding potential solace in a sort of like, safe house run by a mysterious stranger.
- ストップ!! ひばりくん! and らんま1/2 I guess? but both are definitely much much more like, lgbtq+ adjacent in a chaotic maybe accidental 80s comedy sort of way not actually by way of directly being about that or handling gender or sexuality at all well necessarily. (but I do like them a lot)
- (うちの息子はたぶんゲイ and 弟の夫 aren’t necessarily my favorites but they’re beginner friendly so I though I’d mention them just in case they strike a chord with somebody! They’re fun!)
(there’s stuff on the shelves in the picture that I still haven’t read – like Banana Fish – so not mentioning something shouldn’t be interpreted as a slight against it by the way…)
Somewhat embarrassingly the only one (almost) of the wrestling books I’ve actually read so far is Mayu Iwatani’s 引きこもりでポンコツだった私が女子プロレスのアイコンになるまで, which I did enjoy! I’ve kept decent pace with the weekly magazines since then though and still post long-windedly about them in the wrestling thread.
If you were asking about general favorites, I suppose my favorite novel (so far) has been the atmospheric and highly detailed mystery novel 獄門島 by Seishi Yokomizo (which there was a book club for too), and my favorite manga has been ドンジョン飯, an RPG-tinged (but non-isekai) fantasy series about eating monsters that develops seamlessly in a cool way from goofy comedy to full-on adventure (that still has cooking and goofy comedy), which compelled me to start following the magazine it’s published in, ハルタ, which has itself truly been a highlight for me and I post about it frequently in the extensive reading thread.
Really in the grand scheme of things I still haven’t read very much though! Lots to look forward to!
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