Welcome to the book club for the ガンバレ! 中村くん! ! series!
As of this club, there are two books in the series with the possibility of more releasing. We will only be reading the two books shown below.
Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.
Will you be reading along when the club starts on November 11?
Yes
No
Maybe
I’ll be reading, but at my own pace
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What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
Eh. This one isn’t available on book walker outside of Japan, either. Do the Japanese think BL is too precious to share with oversees people? (I had the same problem with 僕らの食卓).
Originally I didn’t come here complain, but to appreciate the delightfully retro feeling water color cover art.
Might be worth checking the other version, if you haven’t already. This series was published under one publisher initially, then republished under another. Amazon has the first one at least under a separate listing iirc, so maybe Bookwalker will as well?
It looks really silly right
I think I might also join even though I wanted to slow down on buying more books but this could be an opportunity to be one of the manga first crowd
I suspect it has to do with some kind of copyright play on how much which one is paying since buying outside of Japan on bookwalker will give you the book price without the tax. That and the whole “exclusivity” profit that Japan loves so much.
I can recommend cmoa in case you want a site that doesn’t do it as much (it does it, but just not to so many things as bookwalker since you pay for the tax when you pay for points and not per purchase), also buying under a vpn will preserve your purchase even if you’re not on vpn anymore (talking from experience lol)
Okay; so schedule-wise, I was thinking we’ll probably want to stick to reading whole chapters and not stop partway through; that’ll get really awkward otherwise. And because the chapter lengths are so uneven, here are two proposed schedules, one slower and one faster.
(I removed the おまけ from your page reckonings for volume 1 @javerend, as on review there’s no “content” there, just an あとがき and some doodles.)
Vol 1 page counts
Chapter
Start
Length
1
3
8
2
11
8
3
19
12
4
31
8
5
39
10
6
49
36
7
85
32
8
117
8
9
125
8
10
133
16
11
149
41
Vol 2 page counts
Chapter
Start page
Length
12
003
16
13
019
38
14
037
20
15
057
18
16
075
18
17
103
14
18
117
22
19
139
20
This schedule is a bit slower than what we did for 僕らの食卓, which was closer to 90 pages/week.
Week
Chapters
Page Count
Week 1
(Vol 1) 1-5
46
Week 2
(Vol 1) 6-7
68
Week 3
(Vol 1) 8-10
32
Week 4
(Vol 1) 11-end
41
Week 5
(Vol 2) 12-13
54
Week 6
(Vol 2) 14-16
56
Week 7
(Vol 2) 17-end
56
This schedule is faster than A and closer to 僕らの食卓’s pace. Note: it seems 中村くん is more text-dense than 僕らの食卓 with furigana only for names, so keep that in mind.
Week
Chapters
Page Count
Week 1
(Vol 1) 1-6
82
Week 2
(Vol 1) 7-end
105
Week 3
(Vol 2) 12-15
92
Week 4
(Vol 2) 16-end
74
Which schedule are you comfortable reading along with?
Natively page:
Note: it seems 中村くん is more text-dense than 僕らの食卓 with furigana only for names, so keep that in mind.