No love for Princess Jellyfish?? 
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Oh no! Maruko-chan is down to 14%! Join the campaign to save Maruko-chan by changing just one vote!
Maruko-chan thanks you.
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うれしい！ありがとうございます！
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Same for NANA 
but I’m almost looking forward to it being kicked out of the nomination list, then I can go ahead and binge all the volumes without waiting for a club 
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Ohh, and the first three volumes are free to read for the next 30 days on bookwalker … Time for an unofficial binge club??? (Not that I need to join more book clubs right now, but you got me curious about it …)
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Nice! 
I have already bought them all digitally but I have a friend who owns them in paper (and in Japanese of course) so I might try the paper version for once! Kan-kan will be my friend 
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Oh thanks for the tip! Than anybody curious can try it now! 
For me it this manga is very special, I loved it as a teen and I’ve been comparing everything to it since then. I can’t wait to revisit it as an adult and in Japanese! And I have yet to see any drawing style that I prefer (Witch Hat Atelier included :o )
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I absolutely loved the Nana anime, but I just can’t bring myself to read a 21 volume series that won’t have a proper conclusion. I really hope the mangaka is doing alright.
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I don’t know where you live (yet) but I randomly found this one in Junku in Paris. I remembered voting for it last time so I impulse-bough it.
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I’m in Denmark, nowhere near shops selling books in Japanese unfortunately
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Arg, I live in Portugal so I now the pain. Fortunately there’s the internet…
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I love Junku so much. It’s worth visiting Paris just to go to that shop! I don’t think we have anything like it in UK.
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Oh I would have expected Japanese libraries in London as well.
I would have expected a Kinokuniya, but somehow it’s failed to make it into Europe at all…
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(Pain) neighbors!
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I remember at some point there was a discussion about maybe changing the rule about eliminating nominations that don’t get 15% or higher in 3 consecutive polls due to the fact that there were so many interesting options for people and 5 votes limited how many you could show interest in. It also doesn’t seem like people really have any new nominations in mind at the moment, since nobody ended up taking the 20th spot, so I’m not sure freeing up nomination spots is that necessary at this point. We could maybe bring back the rule later on, or change the percentage necessary to stay in the polls. What does everyone else think? (Poll is anonymous.)
What should we do about the elimination rule?
- Get rid of the <15% elimination rule (at least for now)
- Decrease the percentage necessary to remain a nomination (suggest what percentage in a comment)
- Keep the rule as it is (elimination after 3 instances of receiving less than 15% in the polls)
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The IMC is kind of different from the other clubs with its faster pace so I don’t think it would be too out there for its rules to be somewhat different than the other clubs.
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I went and checked the other clubs, the rules are:
- ABBC: can’t find a rule?
- BBC: less than 15% for three rounds of voting in a row
- IBC: less than 20% for three rounds of voting in a row
- ABC: less than 10% for three rounds of voting in a row
I agree. It seems that there will be a new free spot every 5/6 weeks, while other book clubs have to wait for 10-15 weeks, so the current rule definitely sounds a bit too harsh. Especially as the Club has just started, we haven’t even read 5 books read, so if you voted for your 5 favorite books at every round of voting so far, that would mean 0 vote for 15 other books, which would risk to be removed.
Maybe we should look at more than just the 3 last rounds?
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