📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀

Good luck! I’d say the reading portion of the JLPT counts double.

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Goals :dart:

  • Read from manga, books or games
  • Read One Piece
  • Read Flying Witch vol 1-2
  • Read Nagatoro vol 1-3
  • Read Kindaichi vol 1-4
  • Read Zenitendo vol 2-3
  • Read Yoru Cafe vol 2-3
  • Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special vol 4
  • Read Hero Avan vol 5

Progress :paw_prints:

July :sunny:

26
27
28
29
30

Days Completed (31/31)

August :lady_beetle:

31
32
33
34
35

Days completed (31/31)

September :butterfly:

35
36
37
38
39

Days completed (30/30)

Reading Material :books:

ふるいんぐうぃっち

ふるいんぐうぃっち 1
ふるいんぐうぃっち 2

ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂

ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 2
ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 3

イジらないで、長瀞さん

イジらないで、長瀞さん 1
イジらないで、長瀞さん 2
イジらないで、長瀞さん 3

夜カフェ

夜カフェ 2
夜カフェ 3

金田一少年の事件簿

金田一少年の事件簿 FILE 1
金田一少年の事件簿 FILE 2
金田一少年の事件簿 FILE 3
金田一少年の事件簿 FILE 4

しろくまカフェ

しろくまカフェ Today’s Special 4

ドラゴンクエスト ダイの大冒険 勇者アバンと獄炎の魔王

ドラゴンクエスト ダイの大冒険 勇者アバンと獄炎の魔王 5

ONE PIECE

ONE PIECE 1
ONE PIECE 2
ONE PIECE 3
ONE PIECE 4
ONE PIECE 5

Updates :speech_balloon:

September

Sep 30 - Read One Piece ch43-44
Sep 29 - Read One Piece ch42
Sep 28 - Read One Piece ch36-41
Sep 27 - Read One Piece ch31-35
Sep 26 - Read One Piece ch27-30
Sep 25 - Read One Piece ch23-26
Sep 24 - Read One Piece ch22
Sep 23 - Read One Piece ch18-21
Sep 22 - Read One Piece ch16-17
Sep 21 - Read One Piece ch14-15
Sep 20 - Read One Piece ch11-13
Sep 19 - Read One Piece ch9-10
Sep 18 - Read One Piece ch8
Sep 17 - Read One Piece ch3-7
Sep 16 - Read Hero Avan ch20
Sep 15 - Read Hero Avan ch19
Sep 14 - Read Hero Avan ch18
Sep 13 - Read Hero Avan ch17
Sep 12 - Read Hero Avan ch17
Sep 11 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch67-69
Sep 10 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch64-66
Sep 9 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch63
Sep 8 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch62
Sep 7 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch61
Sep 6 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch60
Sep 5 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch59
Sep 4 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch56-58
Sep 3 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch55
Sep 2 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch53-54
Sep 1 - Read Polar Bear Cafe Today’s Special ch52

August

Aug 31 - Read One Piece ch2
Aug 30 - Read Zenitendo 3 epilogue
Aug 29 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch6
Aug 28 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch5
Aug 27 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch5
Aug 26 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch4
Aug 25 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch3
Aug 24 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch2
Aug 23 - Read Zenitendo 3 ch1
Aug 22 - Read Zenitendo 3 prologue
Aug 21 - Read Kindaichi File 4 ch7-10
Aug 20 - Read Kindaichi File 4 ch3-6
Aug 19 - Read Kindaichi File 4 ch1-2
Aug 18 - Read Kindaichi File 3 ch6-10
Aug 17 - Read Kindacihi File 3 ch4-5
Aug 16 - Read Kindaichi File 3 ch3
Aug 15 - Read Kindaichi File 3 ch1-2
Aug 14 - Read Kindaichi File 2 ch8-11
Aug 13 - Read Kindaichi File 2 ch6-7
Aug 12 - Read Kindaichi File 2 ch3-5
Aug 11 - Read Kindaichi File 2 ch2
Aug 10 - Read Kindaichi File 2 ch1
Aug 9 - Read Kindachi File 1 ch3-6
Aug 8 - Read Kindaichi File 1 ch2
Aug 7 - Read Kindaichi File 1 ch1
Aug 6 - Read Yoru Cafe 3 ch9-10
Aug 5 - Read おいしいコーヒーのいれ方 (manga) ch1
Aug 4 - Read Yoru cafe 3 ch8
Aug 3 - Read Hokkaido Gals ch1
Aug 2 - Read Yoru Cafe 3 ch7
Aug 1 - Read Yoru Cafe 3 ch6

July

Jul 31 - Read Yoru Cafe 3 ch4-5
Jul 30 - Read Nagatoro ch22-23
Jul 29 - Read Nagatoro ch21 | Yoru Cafe 3 ch3
Jul 28 - Read Nagatoro ch20 | Yoru Cafe 3 ch2
Jul 27 - Read Nagatoro ch19 | Yoru Cafe 3 ch1
Jul 26 - Read Nagatoro ch17-18
Jul 25 - Read Nagatoro ch15-16
Jul 24 - Read Nagatoro extra ch3 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch12
Jul 23 - Read Nagatoro extra ch2 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch11
Jul 22 - Read Nagatoro ch14 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch10
Jul 21 - Read Nagatoro ch13
Jul 20 - Read Nagatoro extra ch1 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch9
Jul 19 - Read Nagatoro ch11-12 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch8
Jul 18 - Read Nagatoro ch9-10 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch7
Jul 17 - Read Nagatoro ch8 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch6
Jul 16 - Read Nagatoro ch7 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch5
Jul 15 - Read Nagatoro ch6 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch4
Jul 14 - Read Nagatoro ch5 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch3
Jul 13 - Read Nagatoro ch4 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch2
Jul 12 - Read Nagatoro ch3 | Yoru Cafe 2 ch1
Jul 11 - Read One Piece ch1 | Nagatoro ch1-2
Jul 10 - Read Zenitendo 2 ch2
Jul 9 - Read Flying Witch ch12
Jul 8 - Read Flying Witch ch11 | Read Zenitendo 2 ch5
Jul 7 - Read Flying Witch ch10 | Read Zenitendo 2 ch4
Jul 6 - Read Flying Witch ch9 | Read Zenitendo 2 ch3
Jul 5 - Read Flying Witch ch8 | Read Zenitendo 2 ch2
Jul 4 - Read Flying Witch ch7 | Read Zenitendo 2 ch1
Jul 3 - Read Flying Witch ch6
Jul 2 - Read Flying Witch ch5
Jul 1 - Read Flying Witch ch4

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REDC
Week 1

July 2
Final Fantasy 7: 1h 15m.

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I second this! :100: Good luck to anyone taking the exam :sparkles:

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@MarnieDEB is totally right, haha. The exhaustion I felt after taking that N2 practice test was very real; it more than counts.

Best of luck to you! Since you’ve been hanging in here reading a bunch, I think you’ve got this. :muscle:

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Home post :bookmark: July 2nd :beach_umbrella:

・詩的私的ジャック - JACK THE POETICAL PRIVATE (36% → 40%)

New book club week, new reading assignment. Woke up way too early due to tropical heat - too hot for a yukidaruma like me :snowman_with_snow: So I was a bit tired today. Got stuck on a confusing paragraph, but taking a break helped. I realized I mixed up the characters’ names, there’s a few to keep track of. (Kinda wanted to read SAO, but did listening instead.)

Good luck to those of you who are taking the JLPT tomorrow! :crabigator: You got this! :sparkles:

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1st & 2nd July (Days 1 & 2) :sunny: :cat2:

Home post :books:

As I joined the challenge at very ungodly hour yesterday, I read a short NHK easy article for the sake of it.

Today I had more time to dedicate to reading, so I picked up Kafka on the Shore again. Before I got ill, I was somewhere midways through chapter 5, but I have forgotten everything since. So I re-read the first half of the chapter again. Although it takes me a long while to get through those few pages, I am still surprised at just how many of the words and kanji I already know!

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3rd of June

Read from page 69 to page 73 (18 – 20%) of かがみの孤城. I read more than I initially intended today! Some parts were easy, and other parts had a lot of onomatopoeia that I constantly kept looking up.

Yesterday I made a list of future books I intend to read, and put it on my study log. Here it is:

Summary

Perhaps I’m being a little too ambitious :sweat_smile:. Too many books I want to read though!

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You know, I had intended to chill out a bit recently with my reading. But here I am, doing the opposite of that. Things got very climactic, very emotional, and very good in Summer Pockets, so with the end somewhat in sight, I persevered for a while. Up to 13,500 characters, which is definitely one of my most read in a day. I’ve been at this VN since 2 challenges ago, but let’s appreciate that when I started, I was reading like 3 or 4 thousand characters in a day. The challenge pays off, folks.

So I read, and I read, and I read. And then I hit the end credits!

Then the pocket dimension opened! Get that ALKA out of here, and especially get those naïve thoughts about being done out of here. I read the very beginning, but I’ll save it for tomorrow, and if it doesn’t end quickly, no doubt continue pressing on and on haha.

Anyway, word I learned: バカップル . “Sickeningly sweet and soppy couple.” It’s バカ + カップル .

A little question about Flowers

@AzusaChan Still considering what I’m reading next, the day is very close. I’m thinking about Flowers but I imagine if I did, the plan going in at least would be to read one, then take a break to read something else. I guess I’m just curious how connected the games all are? I don’t really know how the structure works or much about it. I know they were released individually (believe a new one just came our IIRC), and I imagine a little break in between isn’t going to harm anything, but in some series I’d really want to be able to do it all through at once, you know? I just think I’m going to really want to break things up a little more quickly coming off SP.

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The games are very much connected. If you buy the ps4/switch version there is actually an option to play it as one experience as a single game (it also has an option to play the games individually like they were released). I think at most there is a like a 2-4 week time skip in between each game. If your memory is good there shouldn’t be any issue taking a break in between games but if your experience reading it is anything like mine, you will not want to stop at all once you get to the end of any of the games haha

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Finished reading volume 15 of One Piece today (chapters 132-136) :smiley:
Also read a few pages of Re:Zero (volume 1), but didn’t make any significant progress.
(Home Post)

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Hey everyone! Today I read pages 47-59 of かくりよの宿飯 1.

Pretty cover!

download

It’s my fourth novel in Japanese, so I switched to using the built-in Kindle Japanese-Japanese dictionary (instead of the J-E one)… which is slowing me down more than I’d like :smiling_face_with_tear:. My first three novels were in the ティアムーン帝国物語 series, and I was at 20 pages an hour by the third one. Now it’s more like 10, thanks to the J-J dictionary and a new author/series, which is frustrating. Any tips for dealing with being annoyed :sweat_smile:?

Happy reading this summer!

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Day 2

Once more, a very full day (lots of touristing and walking & going to see a play) so only read maybe 8 or so pages of コンビニ人間 on various forms of transport. What with all of the walking, I once again did a ridiculous amount of listening - about an hour and a half of the コンビニ人間 audiobook and probably upwards of 3 hours podcasts. I actually visited a bunch of locations/historical stuff today that was of relation to the silly pirate LN I’m reading, (flesh & blood) but it’s probably the hardest thing I’m reading at the moment and needs more time & attention then 5/10 minutes on the subway etc.

So tired now (my phone says I walked 16km today and it certainly feels like it) and JLPT tomorrow so should sleep! Good luck to all the other folks taking it. May the reading challenge spirits guide us through the reading section :muscle::muscle::muscle::muscle:

would 100% agree with this - from what I’ve read so far it seems like one of the easiest novels I’ve tried- pretty straightforward grammar and everyday vocab.

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home?

day to of the challenge, and it’s going well ^^

i’m reading the LN tie-in to the やがて君になる manga, which was the very first manga i read in japanese, about a year ago. this is now my very first LN, so that’s fitting :smiley:

it’s going swimmingly, i’m on page 43 of volume 2, so that’s about 120 pages since i wrote the home post. at this rate, i’ll finish the whole thing in a couple of weeks :sweat_smile:

i’m not doing any deep reading. i look up (the many) words i don’t know with the dictionary built into the kindle, without making any particular effort to learn them (i’ve learnt a lot of them anyway). when i don’t get the grammar, i go for best approximation, and leave it at that. i love reading, have read literally thousands of novels (mostly sci-fi), but i always hated reading for school. that’s not going to change just because i’m self-studying now :smiley:

despite not doing any “studying” while reading, it feels like i’m making huge leaps forward in my understanding of japanese. seeing grammar applied in context, seeing vocab used in context, it’s really bringing everything together. now i think i will very soon need to start working on production, speaking and writing.

my reading speed has also increased massively, as i’ve noticed with subtitles or song lyrics.

i probably won’t be doing daily checkins, but i’m looking forwards to seeing how much progress another 2 months of reading every day will bring me!


i was using that before i realised that i can switch dictionary. i was getting maybe 1 out of 5 definitions, and most of them only vaguely. but i look forward to the day i can return to it!

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July 2 :blossom: Home Post

I read chapter 12 of 海辺(うみべ)のカフカ today! I wasn’t sure how well it would go at first; I have a general awareness of keigo and humble speech and such and it’s usually fine, like ナカタ levels are no problem, but this was a more extreme case than I’ve really seen before :sweat_smile: Once I got into it it was alright, but it was a bit intimidating :joy: At this rate, 海辺(うみべ)のカフカ will be the first novel I actually finish in Japanese which is kind of ridiculous actually lmao, that’s what I get for playing VNs all the time :laughing:

Aside from that, I read a few side stories in バディミッションBOND, most of which involved チェズレイ so they were inherently wild lmao. Doing that so soon after watching ハイキュー!! eps with Oikawa in them was interesting; very different situations :joy: but yeah, it was a good time as always! I still have a number of side stories to read before going back to the main plot so it’s kinda chill, though the side stories can certainly have their own brand of drama :eyes:

Oooh that’s one I’ve been looking at for sure, my friend keeps telling me I’ll like it (talking about the anime that I can’t find anywhere but whatever) and she’s probably right lmao; I hope it goes smoother once you get into it!

Also best of luck to all the JLPT people!! :muscle: (and everyone who’s been feeling under the weather for one reason or another, I hope you feel better soon :sparkling_heart:)

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Thank you! You should check it out; it’s definitely fun so far. I’ve seen the anime, but it’s been a few years so I remember next to nothing aside from the premise except that I enjoyed it enough to want to see what happened next :sweat_smile:. So far the novel version is good - the main character’s reactions and internal dialogue are amusing, the ayakashi/yokai are interesting, and the story and world building look promising! I hope to finish the book by the end of July, so I’ll let you know what I think of the whole thing then, if you’d like. :slight_smile:

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Busy, busy day which had a lot of Japanese (writing, talking, listening) but no time for reading, gah! I technically read a lot of あらすじ while browsing books, but that doesn’t really count towards my personal reading goals :sweat_smile: I did however study my daily grammar point and filled in a cell on the spreadsheet.

It’s such a silly thing, but filling in spreadsheets is oddly motivating to me, in a way that apps and such are not.

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July 2nd

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険18

start - 27

I started too late at night lol. I think I can probably finish this fight (66) by tonight. The next one is short, but we’ll see if I start early enough to read it too.

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july 2 :sunflower: home post

Read the rest of this week’s reading for the Orange book club. Tomorrow I should have more time to read so I can catch up on last week’s chapters for 極主夫道 and get through more of 夜カフェ.

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I didn’t read anything on my list today and instead went for something totally different.

Bookwalker has the first volumes of the manga 海月姫 (Princess Jellyfish) and 東京タラレバ娘 (Tokyo Tarareba Girls) available to read free until 7/10 so I threw them into my cart to try. Since they’re only free to read for a limited time I pushed harder than I otherwise would have, and finished the first volume of 東京タラレバ娘. This story is totally new to me so I’m more interested in it… I watched 海月姫 and really liked it but am not that excited about going through it in Japanese, and don’t know if I’ll actually read those volumes within the eligible time period.

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