I would also be interested in a かがみの狐城 book club. Though, I have this version https://learnnatively.com/book/4a34fb3df2/ and I have no idea how similar/different the two are.
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From a quick glance at the first few pages, it appears to be the same, just with full furigana. Can’t promise there’s not some differences later on though.
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Just wanted to mention that I’ve been running into more manga sets on cdjapan lately. So if you’re looking for longer series, it may be a good idea to check if they have one for w/e you’re looking at.
That’s how I got 私を喰べたい、ひとでなし | L21 and アネモネは熱を帯びる | L22
The sets seem to be for LNs and manga. Possibly other formats as well, but I didn’t check
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Unfortunately there’s no discount for buying the set, as far as I’ve seen.
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Indeed, but it does make things easier than tracking down individual volumes. (Also if you’re looking at their proxy listings, 1 set will save you lots of 300円 fees).
To my chagrin bemusement, they just came out with a 君と綴るうたかた | L21 set, now that they’ve released the regular edition of vol 6 (limited edition came with the follow up story 「君に贈る永遠」 君と綴るうたかた6巻 小冊子電子版 | L21)
Games count as physical media, right 
Did our christmas gift exchange with my friend who’s really into くそゲー. I got him a famicom so he could finally play たけしの挑戦状 (you do need an actual microphone for one part, so can’t just use an adapter on an NES), and he got me an assortment of bargain bin SFC games
Two potentially notable ones for reading purposes are 夜光虫, an early horror-y visual novel, and アメリカ横断ウルトラクイズ, which I guess is supposed to be a game based on a quiz show with like horribly incorrect and funny misrepresentations of american life (also peep that old 弐 on the 花札 game)
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Dang, I love it! 
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かがみの狐城
yay, you’re on the ping list @Mara and @IntrepidFox
Zenitendo:
amazing!! will you ping the offshoot thread after you get started, I’m so curious if you recommend them 
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Will do. Plan to start them as of next week so will put in updates as I watch them. Might also use it as motivation to re read them starting from book one as well.
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Edit: A kind forum user has volunteered to take my extra books. 
I’ll leave my cry for help here for posterity, haha; thank you!
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So ComiComi Studio is running a promotion celebrating the re-release of a Flesh&Blood 外伝 where if you buy two of the previous F&B books (can’t be the same book if I read the rules right), they’ll include a short story pamphlet as a bonus. I’m betting/hoping this a new short story, so of course I’m interested, but I already own all the published F&B books. @.@
So I’ve come here to ask: if one or two people are interested, it would be perfect if I could order the two books, nab my pamphlet prize, then mail the book(s) to the interested party(s) free of charge (unless you live in Antarctica I guess and shipping is really expensive for one book, in which case maybe they could pay half or something; I would be shipping from the US). Would anyone be interested in doing something like that?
The promotion goes until the end of February or until stock for the pamphlet runs out, but I’d prefer to get an order in sooner rather than later to make sure I get the pamphlet. I would expect I would send out interested parties’ books early- to mid-January, depending on shipping.
I totally understand privacy concerns for those who may not want to give out their address; just wanted to check and see if there was any interest. 
I’m also probably going to end up with another copy of the 外伝 since I want two store bonuses. :S
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The first few volumes of ひとりぼっちの○○生活 are ¥188 at both Bookwalker and Amazon and it looked like later volumes had some discounts as well.
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Highly recommend! It’s a top 5 series for me and WaniKani beginner book club just started reading it.
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her friend Yawara Kai
I picked up a few volumes and I’m already glad I did.
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Latest Suruga-ya order. It’s small this month, but have a final Cdjapan order for the year, coming this week
- 百合姫 2025年2月号 | L26??
- カヌレ スール百合アンソロジー | L24?? - a nomination for Class-S (and Related) book club (I’ll probably end up reading before tho)
- Paper quality is nicer than usual for YH books. Bottom one is a postcard
- カヌレ seems to be a French pastry
- 明日の世界で星は煌めく | L27 - next beginner LN club read - starts Jan 19
Wow this is one of the most beautiful color pages:
ところで、 does anyone know why JP manga and anime magazine dates are two months ahead?? This has been perplexing me for the longest time
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Yahoo has an article on this topic, but in Europe we cannot open it due to geo-blocking. Btw: about 10 years ago it was only one month.
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I found an article by the 全国出版協会 that says it’s basically for marketing reasons. If you walk into a shop in the middle of January and look at the magazine stand, you’re more likely to buy a 二月号 than an 一月号, let alone a 十二月号, because the latter will seem like it’s a bit “stale”. So the magazines are dated in a way that makes the cover date closer to a “this is when stores will stop shelving it” date than a “publishing date”. The industry has some standards about how far in the future you’re allowed to put the cover date, which vary by how frequently the magazine is published.
The US and UK magzine market has the same practice.
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You can work around that by feeding the article URL into the Wayback Machine, incidentally, because its web crawler is US based and avoids the geoblock. But it’s a faff and takes a minute or two, so I often can’t be bothered.
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Makes sense
I probly wouldn’t have questioned that
Anyway it all makes sense now. Thx for the replies
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I got volumes 14 and 15 of 乙嫁語り | L24 for Christmas.
Unfortunately my volumes 1 to 13 are still in German. (I started the collection before I learned Japanese and continued in the language. But I got fed up with the translations taking years.)
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From the previews I’ve looked at before, the art seems very pretty. Probably a good series to own physically instead of digitally.
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