Ok マリア様がみてる 1 | L29 is our official first pick. There’s now a Home Thread
Idk whether “nominal start date of Jan 12th” (based on poll results) or “just consider it started, now that there’s a home thread” makes more sense. Anyone have any input?
Consider it started at this point!
It just occurred to me that (fictive kinship)[Fictive kinship - Wikipedia] is probably a major theme in class s. I know お姉 gets used for non blood related people. But calling all your upper classmates お姉様 is a little unusual, I think. And the sour/sister/scheester system seems to be another more profound form of fictive kinship (maybe a little like blood brothers?).
And then 行進子犬に恋文を | L23?? suddenly makes a lot of sense given that the military is often given as an example for fictive kinship.
Not following, where is anyone doing this?
I think it’s a rectangle/square thing. Some sister relationships may be like that, but others may not.
マリア様がみてる. I’ve only read the first section. But it has the phrase あこがれお姉さま.
I was also thinking of 青い花. Though there I think it was with a larger age gap, making it more expected.
あこがれお姉さま is singular tho? And the only places I’m seeing it, it’s あこがれのお姉さま (i.e. the person char A wants to have as their お姉様). Any chance you could post the sentence(s) you have in mind?
Edit: there’s also 上級生のお姉さま方 - but even there I don’t think it’s referring to all upper classmates
It’s been too long since I’ve read 青い花 so idrc about that
あこがれのお姉さまと、初めて言葉をかわしたというのに。
I thought あこがれ meant she is looking up to this お姉さま. I guess it might have meant she wanted her as a sister?
Since it’s the first time they were taking, I assumed she used お姉さま simply because she is older than her.
Right, あこがれ is tricky… can be used for admiration or desire
Mm all I’ll say for now is she’s referring specifically to Sachiko, and not anyone else, in this scene.
I think regardless of the specific of the discussion above, you’re right about the core iddea here. After all one of the things S stands for is “sister”
I hadn’t been on this site in a while and totally missed this. I’ll probably skip the current pick since it’s already started (I do want to read the LN at some point but its a huge time commitment with how long it is. I have watched the anime & read the manga though).
I’ll keep an eye on this thread since a lot of the nominations are stuff I want to read.
We’re all done w/ マリみて１, so voting time once again!! Refer to the nominations post for notes, or feel free to ask about anything, if you need more info. Poll auto-closes Jan 19 0:00 UTC, so vote before then. Up to 5 votes per person.
@Makochou pinging in case this is of interest
I just realized our poll closed already, with a 4 way tie 
Poll auto-closes Jan 26 0:00 UTC, so vote before then. 2 votes per person
Ok - so 乙女の港 (実業之日本社文庫 - 少女の友コレクション) | L30?? is our winner!!
I’m assuming folks will need tIme to acquire the book, but I went ahead and made a thread for it anyway: Discussion thread for 乙女の港 (informal, Class-S Club) - Now Reading - so feel free to start, whenever you have the book. I’ll probly start sometime this week.
Quite curious to see how the language here (1938) compares to vs 花物語 (1916-24)
I’m curious also about the difficulty level. On the one hand it’s by 川端 康成, whose style in my experience can be quite elliptical and tricky to read; on the other hand apparently it was first serialised in 少女の友, so maybe he adjusted his style to suit the audience.
I haven’t read his other works, but archaic kanji & language conventions aside, the reading level is not very high. Apparently is was drafted/ghost-written by 中里 恒子 Nakazato, Tsuneko. In terms of comprehension, it feels similar to (and maybe slightly easier than) マリア様がみてる L29. At least for me the difficulty is 80% orthography older vocab. Edit: so I guess level-wise I’d put it around 30-32?
It’s certainly worlds easier than 花物語
Thinking of holding a vote for next read, starting next week. So if anyone has any works they wanna add b4 then, feel free (I might add one or two)
I’ll add these to OP eventually, but some English books that are pretty excellent on the history here:
乙女の港 is wrapping up soon, so voting time once again!! Refer to the nominations post for notes, or feel free to ask about anything, if you need more info. Poll auto-closes Mar 9 0:00 UTC, so vote before then. Up to 5 votes per person.
行進子犬に恋文を 1 | L23?? is our winner!! Here’s the home thread
行進子犬に恋文を 1 | L27 finished up. So time for next round!
(Class-S (and Related) Reading Club - VOTING until Apr 20 - #2 by 暁のルナ) for notes, or feel free to ask about anything, if you need more info. (I added a few new items here, which I’ll put in the list, later today). Poll auto-closes Apr 20 0:00 UTC, so vote before then. Up to 5 votes per person.
Edit: the poll title should of course say 4th
I messed up the link for 街の子だち (吉屋信子少女小説集 4) | L30??
@暁のルナ this manga seems relevant to your interests as well as the club
https://www.amazon.co.jp/拝啓、在りし日に咲く花たちへ-1-MFC-五十嵐-純/dp/4046845503
