Quartet is a great continuation to Genki. I highly recommend it if that’s where you’re coming from. If you’re coming through MNN, I’m currently working through the beginner books and then gonna see how the intermediate books are.
3 Likes
Great choices! The Final Fantasy piano music is gorgeous. One of my friends in middle school was obsessed with FF’s music, and we’d play those albums over and over.
4 Likes
So nice to be able to share that with someone! Do you have a favorite?
3 Likes
I have a soft spot for all the FF7 music (we used to sing One Winged Angel a lot 
), and also My Home, Sweet Home from FF5. How about you?
5 Likes
Aah, FF7 has definitely a lot of my favorites 
But my favorite of all times is To Zanarkand (FFX). It’s the first one I learned to play. And also, my now-husband and I basically got together because he got interested in me when he heard me playing it at the party where we met second favorite is Wind Crest from FFX-2
5 Likes
Those are both gorgeous! (And that’s an adorable story, too! 
) I don’t think I’d actually heard Wind Crest before; most of my friend’s albums were the early games. Time to dive down YouTube and find more!
3 Likes
You can start with this 9h video
5 Likes
Awesome, thanks!
My bookshelves currently, I hope to be able to add more books from series I enjoy to the both of them (digitally + physically). Although I will say that E-books are so convenient because I can zoom in to the kanji and words that I’m unfamiliar with.
29 Likes
How far have you read through Spy Family? We’re on volume 4 with the offshoot club.
2 Likes
It’s cool that there’s an offshoot bookclub. I haven’t began Spy x Family in Japanese yet since I currently have my hands full with reading D.N.Angel, Hana Kimi, and Katekyo Hitman Reborn at the moment. But I am curious, what’s your opinion on the reading difficulty so far?
1 Like
Volume 1 was read as part of the Intermediate Book Club - I struggled initially with the some of the dialogue but not as much as I would expect at that level. Since speech patterns tend to repeat, I’ve found it easier as I go on. I’m easily reading a chapter per week with the club, and I’m not a very fast reader (for comparison, I’m struggling with the current ABBC book, but I think that’s a harder book than everyone was expecting!). I don’t know any of the manga you mentioned so I’m afraid I can’t compare, but I’m finding it a fun read.
5 Likes
The series I mentioned are pretty old but if you ever get curious, I’d recommend checking them out. Also, thank you for sharing your experience with reading SxF. I’m not that fast at reading either but I’m hoping by the time I do get to SxF my speed will have increased somewhat. I am not sure what ABBC is but hopefully you can read it with little to no difficulty in the near future if that’s your goal.
5 Likes
The ABBC is the Absolute Beginner Book Club here on the forums. Shameless plug, but we will be selecting our next pick to read in a poll next week, and are currently seeking nominations! Swing on in if you think you would be interested in reading along with a group!
The current pick is definitely a little bit above the punching weight of the ABBC in normal situations (somewhat intentionally, to see if we could make more difficult picks accessible to earlier readers by introducing more tools to help them out), but all of the nominations coming up (so far) are more along the lines of what we have done in the past!
9 Likes
This is good to know, thank you for this helpful explanation!
1 Like
森見登’s work is so fucking hard for me T-T I love 夜は短く’s movie adaptation but the book is something else. I kept buying his books but they kept pushing me away from reading books. You got some other really difficult material there. I envy you if you can read this stuff just for kicks. T-T
1 Like
Ahhh, another Mushi-shi fan! I read those in English and adored them. How’s the difficulty level?
6 Likes
Fabulous Username 
Great collection.
2 Likes
Natively says early N2 and I would probably agree. They use furigana very sparingly.
Also love seeing fellow Mushishi fans 
I started watching the series in 2014 and it’s still a favorite to this day. The soundtrack is just out of this world!
5 Likes