It’s not an x, but a ×. It’s a multiplication symbol.
It’s essentially just a stylistic choice, by my understanding, put there so that people wouldn’t think it’s Hunters hunting other hunters, but just the word Hunter repeated twice (seems that didn’t work out, eh? ). It’s not even intended to be said when you say the name aloud.
But that’s not necessarily a hard and fast rule. Some manga/anime have the same symbol and intend for you to pronounce it, such as ロミオ×ジュリエット、where it’s pronounced as と (meaning “and”, obviously).
So, the tl;dr: it doesn’t mean much here besides to show that it’s not a “Hunter” hunter, but just the same word twice; and it’s not intended to be pronounced.
I halfway feel like I’m cheating a bit by voting in this difficulty poll; being so familiar with Yamamoto-sensei’s writing style at this point, that “minimal effort” vote might even be a bit of a stretch… Maybe I’ll take my vote out when it’s time to do the averages.
And now I can’t help but wonder if you are about to nominate くノ一, and that’s the typing I’m seeing…
There is a small forest on the outskirts of a village. That place has been feared by people since a time long past. Within that forest is a strong(?) and scary(???) wolf.
This series follows the daily life of the kind and hardworking オオカミちゃん and the animals she lives among.
Just wait until you see the difficulty of my second nomination there as a comparison.
Nah, if I waited so long to start reading it due to outfit designs, I wouldn’t nominate it, due to outfit designs. But if someone else nominated it and it was picked, I’d follow the club. (And I’m still going to continue reading the series.)
Yeah, definitely fair. Fwiw, that keeps me from nominating it as well (I also haven’t read any of it to confirm that the content itself is fine, though I’m sure there’s nothing beyond the questionable outfit designs).
From what I’ve seen so far, the content is fine. Aside from the aforementioned outfit designs, there isn’t really anything much worse than comes up in the author’s other series.
Disclaimer: Wait until we get to the next volume of Ayumu before making anything of that. The next volume thread will include a content disclaimer.
Well, that seems surprising for that series. Now I’m curious…
Maybe the internet is wrong, but it seems as though the series has finished its run? Or is that simply referring to the run in magazines, and they are still publishing the volume collections?
(Also, I translated the title for the second pick, but not the first, because I’m torn on whether that ふだつき is just the family name, or a pun on the word that means “notorious; infamous” )
At least, I’m assuming they’re chapters. I haven’t signed up and paid to check. I’m fine waiting to pay 600円 per volume every other year, versus 300円 to 500円 per month to see the posts.
Of course, for all I know, the series ended after two volumes, and the mangaka’s Pixiv fan page is for viewing monthly artworks =P
Additionally, 札 refers to Kyouko’s ribbon (as it’s a talisman). Now if only the つき part were written as 付 rather than 月…
If it helps sate your curiosity any, you’ll find out in a month
Hunter x Hunter is 8 chapters long, all of the chapters around 20-25 pages long, so whole book is 187, 140 pages of actual dialogue. Issue with the 8 chapters is that because they all have around 18 pages of dialogue (and this number never goes below 16), they are just not short enough to do in 1 week (imo, tell me if you think otherwise), but splitting each into 2 weeks results in 16 weeks, which is a bit long.
What a 16 week schedule would look like
Week
Start Date
Pages
No. of pages
Dialogue Pages
Chapter
Week 1
Aug 27
5-25
21
10
Chapter 1
Week 2
Sep 3
26-38
13
11
Chapter 1
Week 3
Sep 10
39-48
10
8
Chapter 2
Week 4
Sep 17
49-62
14
9
Chapter 2
Week 5
Sep 24
62-72
11
9
Chapter 3
Week 6
Oct 1
72-82
11
9
Chapter 3
Week 7
Oct 8
83-94
12
8
Chapter 4
Week 8
Oct 15
95-104
10
8
Chapter 4
Week 9
Oct 22
105-112
8
7
Chapter 5
Week 10
Oct 22
113-124
12
9
Chapter 5
Week 11
Oct 29
125-135
11
9
Chapter 6
Week 12
Nov 5
136-144
9
8
Chapter 6
Week 13
Nov 12
145-154
10
9
Chapter 7
Week 14
Nov 19
155-164
10
9
Chapter 7
Week 15
Nov 26
165-175
11
8
Chapter 8
Week 16
Dec 3
176-183
8
8
Chapter 8
Any ideas? I didn’t think to have weeks where we read the end of one chapter and the start of the next, though maybe that’s an option? Ideally I would have either 10 or 11 dialogue pages per week, that would make the club take either 14 or 13 weeks
I had a look at the Bookwalker preview - it looks like many of the pages of dialogue only have a small amount, with about 7-8 with a larger amount. But I’m not sure I viewed a whole chapter in the preview.
It may be worth starting off with 2 weeks for the first chapter or two, and then increasing the speed to one chapter per week.
Easing in with the first two chapters each taking two weeks, then upping the pace to a chapter a week (depending on how everyone in the club is doing), would be my suggestion as well.
While there are some heavier dialogue pages based on the preview, they aren’t too bad, so I think once folks get used to the writing style, it should hopefully go fairly smoothly.
Good catch! I hadn’t clicked the Amazon links for that one (this is one I am skipping over. Though I will join for Cells At Work), just the Bookwalker for the preview!
Well, I don’t know if you would consider it a mistake, but it says ネトバレ instead of ネタバレ because the person who wrote the original made a typo and now everyone is copying that.