Teasing Master Takagi-san 😝 ・ Volume 5 Discussion Thread [Volume Complete!]

Japanese Language Book Clubs
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Yep! Looks like you’re settling right back in! Congratulations!

My Reading Adventures

Oh, that was one that I read the first volume along with the club and then shelved for the time being because all of my questions with it were dialect-related, and it didn’t feel like I was learning much standard Japanese from it (as fun as it was)!

I honestly probably could return to it by now, though, tbh. My progress in standard Japanese has reached a point that dialects are super fun instead of “Oh great, now I have to remember this and the standard way of saying it
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I definitely will wait until I have fewer things on my plate to return to it though. :sweat_smile:

I’m currently reading (or will be picking up again in the next week or so, when work slows down again):

VN: (Club)

  • Loopers

Manga: (all book club ones at the moment)

  • Takagi-san
  • Ayumu
  • Mitsuboshi Colors
  • Shadows House
  • Whispers of the Heart

Light Novels/Novels:

  • Spice and Wolf (Book Club)
  • Rascal does not dream Series (Currently on the 3rd volume: Rascal does not dream of a Logical Witch)
  • Kitchen (though this one has been on a decent hiatus because the story was a little heavy and sad, so I’m working back to finishing it because I’m close and it would be good to get off the list)

Spice and Wolf is really good so far, but it is definitely the toughest thing I’ve read to date. The Rascal series has some tough moments, but overall, it’s easy to follow, and I’m not looking up too much as I progress in the series. Spice and Wolf’s difficulty comes with unfamiliar topics to me in Japanese: economics and religion. So there is a lot of vocabulary I’m learning from it on those two. :laughing: Holo also speaks with a heavy dialect, but so far, it’s not too hard to puzzle that out!

I loved the Netflix series of Househusband. So much fun! I definitely want to revisit the series and continue with the manga sometime! :grin: