There was a candy shop. The shop seems to be hidden from the shopping street, as if it is clinging to the wall of an alleyway. However, a colourful array of sweets can be seen in front of the shop. Mayumi tilted her head. Was there ever a candy shop there? Iโve been down this road hundreds of times, but Iโve never seen a shop like thatโฆ That candy shop was the dividing line between happiness and unhappiness. (DeepL.)
page numbers from physical book; digital percentages are approximate (BW=Bookwalker) page numbers from Google Play ebook
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The poll results show that most people want to start at the end of January and read 10 pages a week, so Iโve updated the reading schedule accordingly.
Iโve matched the Japanese and Korean finishing lines, so weโll finish at the same point in the story; Japanese readers will finish the page every week, while Korean readers will stop mid-page.
If anyone has access to other editions - particularly the Japanese ebook - feel free to leave the page/percentage details so I can add it to the table.
Thanks so much for organising! It looks like I joined just in time
Did anyone see this guide book to the series? (Edit for people from the future: I bought this, loved it, and hereโs the natively entry where I put a detailed review.)
It has a map of the shop and an overview of the sweets in each chapter (so potential spoilers, if you want to avoid that donโt open the sample!). Iโm kind of torn between โthis could be a fun support to make the reading easierโ and โwill I be disappointed if there are massive spoilers?โ
yes! Thatโs whatโs getting me, too. I think Iโll just get it and find out after Chapter one whether the overview is really much of a spoiler and then decide based on that whether to read those before or after each chapter. .
Oh let us know.
Based on some reviews Iโve seen of the series (and my language goals for the next year) Iโm mostly reading this for listening practice and donโt plan to read the rest of them, so this might be a really great thing to have but it might be totally silly to get it
Does anyone know if you can get the anime in Europe? I couldnโt find it on Crunchyroll or any youtube links, they all turned out to be invalid here. Where else do you get anime? Iโm a total noob at anime, itโs not really something Iโve gotten into, but thought it might be fun to watch after each chapter. Thanks!
It appears yo be short episodes in Japanese with English subs but not sure if you can watch them all. Iโve never used the site before but it let me start watching without logging in. The tune is kinda catchy
Iโll have a look, thanks! I saw some people on here are listening to the audiobooks and that was also recommended to me on another thread, so I got that!
It would be useful for the โread up toโ sections to have an approximate percentage for e-book readers I think. I believe section one ends at the 4.24% mark in Japanese. (I think percentage based should be roughly equivalent for all digital versions in whatever format?)
@Jintor The digital info wasnโt included because I didnโt have access to it; if you (or anyone else) want to look up the weekly %s, I can update the reading schedule to include them.
