learning soooo much …
that I can try to remember later 
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I see what you did there.
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Ooh, that’s exciting! I didn’t know one was out yet. 
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Thank you for the wonderful write-ups, @CatDQ and @Naphthalene! 
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- 美少女戦士セーラームーン | L25 Complete Edition 5, 7, 8-10 (rest coming from Suruga-ya)
- きみの色 | L21 - sooo excited to rewatch this
While I usually prefer to get the original volumes, they’re really hard to find for Sailor Moon, and these are so beautiful that they make up for being expensive 2-in-1 volumes. The paper quality is great, and so is the print quality. The color photos from the magazine run are a nice touch as well. Vol 5 seems to correspond with where I am in the anime, so I might just start from there, rather than reading from vol 2, where I left off… And then go back and read from 2 when it gets here 
I still kinda wanna track down the original 18 volume version tho
きみの色 - I loved this so much, and can’t wait to rewatch it (probably twice). Came with a nice leaflet and a pretty book with director, cast, and staff interviews, plus some pretty photos and gengas; and a pretty little leaflet. I wonder if there’s similar for リズと青い鳥 | L22 (tho that’s KyoAni, not Saru)
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I’ve never read or watched Sailor Moon, but those covers are really nice.
(Also, those girls need longer skirts. Aren’t they in middle school?)
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Yeah the covers are beautiful - tho it’s the inner color images that really grab me
To be fair(?) their non-sailor outfits are more conservative (knee-length, jeans, or sometimes hakama for the Miko character). Despite the short skirts, it’s never ecchi afaict
Edit: as an aside, the handwriting portions in this also have furigana… Which is somewhere between cool and confusing
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Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that. Any chance of a photo of an example?
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Sure I’ll grab some later, when I’m more awake
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Examples, all in the lower left of the image
If you care about spoilers, don’t click this unless You’ve already gone through Season 2 (either anime) or volume 4:
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I exercised great restraint at Book-Off today. Thankfully various other things I wanted were too high price, not in excellent condition, or novels (which I’m trying not to buy physicals until my vocab is much better… exception for SAO tho)
Also this was my first time browsing Book-Off and not feeling overwhelmed by navigating publishers & sections & stuff
- ソードアート・オンライン1 アインクラッド | L33 10-12, 14-15, plus random collectibles
- 兄の嫁と暮らしています。 1巻 | L19?? - been on my list for a while. Seems like it should be plenty interesting. Had no idea it’s 10 volumes and still going!!
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Today’s baby haul. Did anyone else know ルリドラゴン 3 | L21 was out? I didn’t until I saw it at Book Off today so I snatched it up. I also grabbed a copy of 新訳 思い出のマーニー | L33?? since it was ¥100.
There’re two more Book Offs in easy walking distance of my hotel and I have a day and a half to kill before the rest of my group gets here, so I imagine I’ll have a lot more to share 
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Interesting level, though. I read the older version 思い出のマーニー | L23 two years ago, and thought it was easier. But so far I am the only one who graded it, as it seems. Based on the look-ups/page back then (3.6 and 2.6) it is probably slightly undergraded, L26 would probably be better.
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Yeah I was curious about that. It is a new translation and I think there are some other books on here that have different translations graded a few levels apart (Le Petit Prince might be one of them?), but it’ll be interesting to see how this one shakes out.
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Got curious seeing this - I’ve only read the original in English, but there’s no way it would be L23 - it’s one of those old-style British children’s books with plenty of uncommon word choices, description, and relatively dense paragraphs. Not a difficult book at all, but much more complex than a chapter book, which is where most L23 land.
Checked out the Amazon preview and urgh. Feels like the translator sucked all the charm out of the prose and straight up skips lines even in the first couple of pages.
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I cannot judge that, as I only read the Japanese version, and I liked the books nonetheless. Otoh both books together still have more pages (463) than the new version (347).
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Thx for the reminder. I really need to start writing new releases down. It looks great
I’d be in so much trouble
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Wow, blast from the past. I read this myself many many years ago when my Japanese was much worse and was able to get through it pretty well back then, so I’d have to agree the level is somewhere in the lower 20ish. I’m not going to grade it on natively, though since this was a decade ago.
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The Eat Your Vegetables haul.
I managed to find all but one of the textbooks I wanted to pick up at the first store I went to. Now am I, a self professed textbook hater, going to actually read any of these books? Probably not, but with an incredibly favorable exchange rate and in-store tax free shopping I couldn’t really say no.
I also spent some time in the learn Korean section of the store, but almost all of the books were 90% Japanese. Which is great for my Japanese, but not a particularly good way to learn Korean 
If anyone has any Learn Korean Japanese textbook recommendations lmk, bc I’m vaguely in the market for one.
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