I bought everything at once as soon as the sale started. Plus more. 13 full series, plus what I was missing of 2 others.
I’ve banned myself from buying any more manga for quite a while.
Including what I bought this past week, I have over 500 unread manga. 5-6 longer series make up about half of that because I like to buy entire series at a time (Naruto and Dragon Ball make up nearly a quarter on their own). I am going to try to not buy any more manga until to get that down to a reasonable number or reach N2 level with my reading. Most of the manga I have is varying levels of N3 on Natively, so once I need N2 reading material I will end up needing to buy more books.
Also, I hit 1 year on Natively over the weekend! I wasn’t using it consistently until October/November, but still it’s wild how far I’ve come in such a short time.
Reading update
I didn’t read much this last week. I can blame it on several things but either way time just got away from me and I didn’t do as much reading as I wanted to.
Reading the second chapter of 雨でも晴れでも 1 | L22 for the Yuri/GL/wlw book club and part of 好きな子がめがねを忘れた 3 | L19 made up about half of my reading this week. Definitely want to power through some volumes that I bought before the listening challenge next month.
Watching update
I didn’t watch much this week until the weekend. I started watching ハリー・ポッター シリーズ | L29-31 and ブルックリン・ナイン-ナイン | L33?? on Friday and that really accelerated my watch time for the week. Both of these series are definitely too advanced for me, but I am familiar enough with them that I can follow along even when I lose track of what they’re saying.
I can half understand Harry Potter, but any time anything cop-adjacent is mentioned in Brooklyn 99 I completely lose the Japanese. It will be nice to revisit these both in a year or so and see how much I’ve progressed in that time.
