2025 Bingo Reading Challenge ✅

Yes I really enjoyed her short story! I’m trying to hunt down one of her collections.

I think you’ll like the 투명인간 book! It starts off with the action which is nice. Idk if I like the MC but that may be part of the point haha.

I agree, it’s fun to read everyone’s cards. I’ll need to start adding to my TBR soon…

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Well, thanks to your list, I discovered (and then read) BIBLIOMANIA | L26
I’m not going to add it to my card because I do a “no manga” challenge, but it was a fun (and somewhat disturbing) read.

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I just made a list for the Korean books so far. Do tell me if I forgot anyone’s card. I didn’t bother to add the Japanese books that had a translation available in Korean, but if someone wants to do that I can add collaborators.

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2nd volume of a series: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 | L24

New square! Still doing squares that are easy to fill, but some of these I’m going to have to think about later :thinking:

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Apologies if anyone posted about it already, but Bookwalker is currently running a campaign on books with Cats if anyone needs a cat book for their Japanese bingo still! Apparently February 22nd is 猫の日🐈

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This is very cool!
I was thinking to use a random generator and pick a random comment in the thread, and then pick a new random number to pick one book from the list of books that are in the comment, but then what if the comment is not a comment that has a list of books read :thinking:
Might have a look at your list instead!

Thank you Bookwalker for supporting Natively Bingo 2025 :joy: now please make a campaign for Main character is retirement age or older :joy: (saw someone here using Frieren for that one, pretty smart!)

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Use the list of bingo cards in post 2, filtering for those that have at least one spot filled.

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Thanks to that, booklive is doing the same thing. I haven’t cross referenced to see if they are the same books. Edit: I have now checked and there’s like no overlap :joy:

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I like that idea too!
Keeping it as my last square probably, then there will be more things to choose in between :grin:

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Finished one bingo square:

  • Natively w/o ratings - おまわりさんと招き猫 あやかしの町のふしぎな日常 - 6.8 look-ups/page, 1.9 % zero-look-up pages, currently L28. Look-ups would have been less if the author didn’t like to use out-of-list or jinmeiyou kanji that much, or at least provide more furigana. But otoh this is the way to get used to them, as a kanji with furigana, I‘d probably just ignore with a mind set like: no need to worry about it now, next time it‘ll have furigana again.
    Speaking about cats: I plan to read volume #2 for the cat square sometime in the second half of the year.

Started one new bingo square:

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I have my eye on メタモルフォーゼの縁側 1 | L21

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haven’t read this manga, but the live action movie was soooooo cute and good!!!
need to add this to my list to buy later

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Oh I didn’t know there was a movie!? I’ll have to find it!

I should also read the rest of the manga… it’s one of the few series they have at my (Canadian) local library

Edit: メタモルフォーゼの縁側 | L26 if anyone else is interested in the movie. :blush:

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it was part of the film festival thingy a while back that was posted over on wk, that’s how I ran across it…

movie info here:
https://mydramalist.com/715495-the-edge-of-metamorphosis

not sure where to watch it now but it was a really touching story

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sorry about that - you can tell I don’t bother tracking any movies/anime watched :laughing:

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lol, I think we were writing that at the same time :joy:

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I just finished 理由, which I’ll write my thoughts on in the club thread tomorrow (it’s bedtime soon) but it fit the one word title prompt so I put it in there :partying_face:

To be honest most of the prompts this year don’t seem to align with what I’m reading/want to read next so I might not even get a bingo :joy:

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yeah… this! My card just magically got filled in with alternate options that aligned with stuff I wanted to read anyway :wink:

@taiyousea said I could change stuff though so… chaos! :laughing:

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Ah, the title didn’t ring a bell but thanks to the other’s comments, I have indeed watched the movie already during the festival. It didn’t do so much for me though.
I am considering reading おらおらでひとりいぐも, Akutagawa Winner, 2017, but apparently there is Tohoku-dialect in it, not sure if I am ready for that :grimacing:

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That will probably be simplified dialect or there will be explanations in the text, like in e.g. ふらいんぐうぃっち.

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I was considering that one and hesitating for the same reason too! :laughing: If you do go with that one we could make an informal bookclub to decipher the dialect together

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