Week 10: フルーツバスケット ・ Fruits Basket 🍏 🍇 🍑 🍒 🍐 🍊 🧺

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Week 10

Fruits Basket 1

Start Date: August 22nd
Previous Part: Week 9
Next Part: Week 11

Reading:

Week Start Date Chapter Pages (old) Pages (Collector’s) Page Count
Week 10 August 22nd Chapter 9 67 - 96 (v2) 273 - 302 30

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I-I’m not 6 weeks behind, if that’s W-what you think!
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There’s a bunch of 略字 this week.
If you see a kanji that doesn’t look like a kanji, you know what it is :wink:
So far, I have spotted the 間 in 3年間 and the 前 in お名前. Also the 問 in 問題.

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I was a few weeks behind as well but I finished to catch up yesterday. It’s a great feeling to pick “I’m reading along” :laughing:

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I haven’t finished reading yet but…

...my favorite part of this chapter yet

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Also if anyone was wondering about page 73: I guess メートヒェン = Mädchen (German word for girl).

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I loved that part as well :rofl:

I had a hard time understanding that, and I think I only got it thanks to the furigana (おんなのこ) …

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German written in katakana looks and sounds so wrong… :joy:

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I think it is especially poorly katakana-ized :frowning: They should at least have used ド instead of ト (although I know that in some German regions it’s more like the latter, but still…)

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I read it here before I got to the page in the manga and it still took me a minute to grasp :sweat_smile:

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Thanks for proving my point :rofl:

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