Iāve decided for now, as discussed below, to use the original book cub vocab sheet and keep adding to this. Not sure if this will work or not but will try to post the link here!
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The Haikyuu club is my only other point of reference, but weāve been going for nine volumes on one spreadsheet. At a certain point, it made sense to swap the order of the sheets so that the newest chapter was at the front and the older chapters fell off the side. That way people didnāt have to scroll forever to update the vocab list for the current chapter.
Edit: Oh, we also color-code the tabs based on the volume. So when youāre scrolling through them you can see a distinction of which chapters were in each volume.
Iām hoping Iāll have a bit more time to clean up the posts/ actually post something/ add vocab this week. Though tomorrow and Wednesday are starting to look busy.
About the vocabularies, I copied from my vocabulary collection, but edited a little; so page number might not be there. Also, I might not complete the meaning column (fitting simple meanings is hard, and anyone is free look up by themselves). Yomichan is able to check vocabulariesā meaning on editing.
Names are another interesting aspect. Fictional names are based on European things, so it might worth looking up and writing chapter-wise? Also, names are already a spoiler, so name sheets arenāt always appropriate, but rather, in-chapter sheets.
Anyway, my another purpose of posting names are sometimes to invoke questions, and being questionable. Vocabularies are different ā something like personal knowledge and lacking thereof.
MISSION 7 comments
Briefing foreshadows what will happen just sometimes soon , huh?
Not sure what é· refers to.
Some other not-sure would be ā ććć¼ć½ć¼ć¹, ćć«ćć¼ć
I am reading the digital colour version. I think the coloring is quite nice, though not as great as the other two mangas Iāve read in full colour ( Shadows House and Kuro ). Hereās a sample page from Mission 7:
Colors are a bit duller than for example, Kuro, that has more vibrant colors, used to accentuate more details in the backgorunds, and a more varied pallete I feel:
Yeah, I had a look through the volume 1 colour preview when I realised. I wondered if the dullness of some of the colouring is deliberate - aiming for that 70s/80s spy era feeling? While I donāt know exactly when the manga is set, Iām guessing itās around then given the old fashioned home phones I grew up with and lack of mobile phones etc!
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By the way, I will probably be late or absent posting the link next week, Iām on a dive live aboard from Wednesday for 10 days! Possible Iāll have occasional signal.
So I have a question Iāve been waiting a few days to ask!
Apologies, I donāt think my spoiler tags are working (think the slow wifi may be the issue?!), but I donāt think itās a major plot point.
In the first lesson, the teacher looks a lot like Lloyd, but doesnāt act like he knows Anya and she doesnāt seem to recognise him. So is that just a coincidence? Since heās obviously in the school at the time.
I have to say, Iām finding some of ććć¢ć³ and his henchmen a bit difficult to understand - I get the gist but not always the exact meaning. Is it just casual kidās talk or a particular dialect?
