It’s a shame that seems that they won’t be continuing them in Junior form (Last volume seems to be published in 2024).
I’ve seen this happen before sadly, I was surprised to find the audiobook had been completed, since those usually also get dropped unless they are popular.
The recaps are less awful if you don’t have to spend a lot of time/brain power on them. Hamefura is at the perfect level for me where I can just breeze through it. I wish this was true for all books.
For what it’s worth, I’ve found Silent Witch to be a lot easier than Tearmoon Empire but that might just be because I’ve had 2 years of japanese gainz since I read tearmoon vol1. May be interesting to try again this time without the audiobook carrying me
Inspired by @Mara I ended up getting the 1-5 set for 1700JPY for the Junior version from Mercari.
I’ll most likely will try to jump to the adult version afterwards and try not to despair while at it. Hopefully is doable reading along the audiobook and having been introduced via the first volumes with the Junior version.
After some investigation:
The first chapter of the third tsubasabunko version(the furigana one) is the same chapter as the first chapter of the regular second volume. Or simply put, it appears that the first two of the tsubasabunko volumes correspond to the first regular one.