Ooh, I’ve heard of that. Been very tempted by the guy’s design. 
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Yeah 参謀さん is a looker
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Goal
魔法少女ダンデライオン(1) | L23
D.Gray-man 16 | L24
Manga #3
Bonus
Manga #4
Manga #5
Manga #2 finished! This time volume 16 from my beloved D.Gary-man series. This is a rather serious part of the story, so I completely forgot that one of my favorite mini-arcs (the zombie one) shows up here! Things are going to get pretty heavy again afterwards, but I’m coming up on territory I’m only partially familiar with- I’ve re-read these first 16 volumes or so many times in English, and volumes 17-20 a few times, and the volumes after either once or not at all, so I’m looking forward to refreshing my memory and finally moving on to new parts of the story.
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Oh I forgot we can make checklists here, I want to join in on that
My higurashi tbr… First, the core arcs:
ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼隠し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼隠し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に 綿流し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 綿流し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に 祟殺し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 祟殺し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に 暇潰し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 暇潰し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 罪滅し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 罪滅し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 罪滅し編 3
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 罪滅し編 4
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 目明し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 目明し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 目明し編 3
ひぐらしのなく頃に解 目明し編 4
I do not have the two last (and longest) arcs 祭囃し編 (8 vols) and 皆殺し編 (6 vols). I miiiight buy these later.
I do have some extra arcs which I also intend to read
ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼曝し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼曝し編 2
ひぐらしのなく頃に怪 現壊し編
ひぐらしのなく頃に 宵越し編 1
ひぐらしのなく頃に 宵越し編 2
I also have another extra arc 心癒し編 however, I think it’s meant to be read after the core arcs, so I might save that for later if I get the last 2 arcs (then again, I know what happens in them so I might also just read it, I just don’t consider it part of the tbr currently)
Last item in the tbr is a random manga my friend got me before that I tried before and couldn’t get into. I think I want to give it another try. I don’t remember it’s name right now I’ll just add it here when I get my hands on it.
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I just checked my book shelf and these are the books on my radar. I have loosely tackled reading down my TBR in the last years, but this year I was buying more than I could read 
Novel series
- マリア様がみてる | L30 from book 31 on
- 京都寺町三条のホームズ | L32 book 2 - 9
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- コーヒーが冷めないうちに | L27 book 3 + 4
- 異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 | L33 book 2 + 3
- イエスかノーか半分か | L32 book 2 + 3
- 京都府警あやかし課の事件簿 | L34?? not started yet
- お釈迦様もみてる | L29 not started yet
- キノの旅 | L29 not started yet
- プロローグ not started yet. I will probably love this, but it is too difficult for me at the moment
Novel singles
- ラブカは静かに弓を持つ | L35
- 叫ぶ私 (seems like a diary-style book)
Nonfiction
- やりたいことを全部やる!言葉術 | L28??
- 日本地図を南北逆さにするだけで、こんなことがわかる
- 頭が悪くみえる日本語
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The third volume came out just yesterday! So there’s yet more to enjoy 
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Oooh, I have willed volume 3 into existence, I guess. 
Thanks for the heads up!
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Great thread! I may have already gotten interested in one of the books here though, uh-oh
I want to read any 3 of these by the end of the year:
X 小説 とんがり帽子のアトリエ スペシャルストーリーズ KCデラックス | L30
X The doujin novel my mutual wrote.
Couldn’t figure out those fancy checkboxes so I have mouths instead 
And here’s the thread I made with the full list (not including manga) not knowing this one existed.
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I love the ingenuity
To get an empty box you use two braces [ and ] but without the “and” there
To check it off, you put an x inside:
You can also quote part or all of someone’s message to see the markup that they used to format it.
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Reading my TBR and not buying books went better this year than it did most of the past few years!
I purchased only 10 of the 50 books I’ve read so far in Japanese this year. The rest were from the library, my bookshelf, kindle unlimited and audiobook.jp’s 聴き放題 (I know those last two cost money but it just feels different).
Books I own that I finally read:
- 自滅 | L27 (1 year on my TBR)
- 海がきこえる | L27 (1 year on my TBR)
- ぼくは勉強ができない | L27 (1 year on my TBR - everything above was bought together)
- 幽霊結婚 by 赤川次郎 (3 months on my TBR
) - その扉をたたく音 | L30?? (5 years (!!!) on my TBR - this is the spinoff of あと少し、もう少し | L29, which I loved - but I absolutely no longer in the mood to read this anymore after 5 years passed and I forgot all about the character in it it was easy enough though)
- ラオスにいったい何があるというんですか？ by 村上春樹 (8 years (!!!) on my TBR. I finally finished it!
) - 銭湯空間 by 今井健太郎 (1 year on my TBR)
- 夏子の冒険 (角川文庫 み 2-4) | L41 (3 years on my TBR)
- 太陽の季節 | L30?? (1 year on my TBR - by the way this book was hot garbage)
- 仮面の告白 | L46 (3 years on my TBR)
I have also been reading これで古典がよくわかる (ちくま文庫 は 6-8) | L28?? (10 years on my TBR!) since June, but it is very dry and slow going. I’m not sure if I’m ever going to be able to finish this one. 
I am very hopeful about reading even more from my TBR in 2026. Time to start thinking of a goal. 
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Can also do 
:white_medium_small_square: and 
:white_check_mark: emojis
Btw I mistakenly thought this was the “what should I read next?” thread, and kept trying to tap the boxes, wondering why it wouldn’t work
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Wow! Thanks for the tips. Now I can create a list here too haha. I previously used emoticons 
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Goal
魔法少女ダンデライオン(1) | L23
D.Gray-man 16 | L24
キラキラとギラギラ 5 | L22
Bonus
D.Gray-man 17 | L24
Manga #5
Phew, two more down last week! I meant to update several days ago, but I got sick while visiting family and just didn’t have the energy. 
So my final total was four physical manga read, not bad, self. I was all ready to read #5 if I hadn’t come down with said illness but eh, what can you do.
Anyway, キラキラとギラギラ 5 was wonderful, as always. Where is #6, I’m ready. ;_; DGM 17 was a bit too intense for sick eefara, but I powered through. 
I’d forgotten just how serious the story gets…
Anyway, that’s a wrap on my manga reading challenge last week! I think it went really well; I read my initial goal plus one, and I definitely had to power through once or twice when I wasn’t really feeling like manga specifically, which has probably been my biggest blocker towards actually reading stuff.
Now that December is finally here, I’m at 36 volumes of manga read out of my goal of 50, so I still have some work to do. I’m 14 volumes away from meeting my goal, and with 4.5 weeks in the month, I’ll need to read approximately 4 volumes per week to finish it all up. Not insurmountable by any means, but I’m definitely going to need to set aside some manga-only time to make sure I stay on track.
I guess my only hesitation at the moment is that there are a few series (like アスタリスク | L25) where I’ve read part of the series years ago, and I’d like to re-read the earlier books to refresh myself, but I don’t really consider them part of my unread TBR, and thus wouldn’t be able to count them as part of my goal. And when I need to read four volumes per week anyways (+ reading regular book club picks and whatnot), the pages pile up. There’s nothing stopping me from counting them, I suppose, and it would be easier in the long run…
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I say you count the rereads if it’s in service to getting to later volumes in your tbr.
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Well, if shitsurei says it’s okay… I’m thinking I’m going to use that logic. It’s not like I’d finish reading through my physical manga quicker if I weren’t counting them, and as I move more towards working on series rather than singletons, this issue is going to keep popping up.
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Ah, what did you think of this one?
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It was cute, but I don’t feel a huge need to read more.. I did quite like the anime, so maybe start there if you haven’t seen it.. I impulse bought a bunch of them during a golden week sale at some point, so I’ll probably read through what I have.. but yeah, I think I don’t click with 4 koma, and I wish I had known that before I got them all..
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The preview is so misleading… I would have had no clue it’s 4-koma, if you didn’t say anything. It looks like I could enjoy it, so added to my wishlist… Idk why I never ended up watching the anime when it was out
Btw, general thanks to ppl for posting here. My reading time has been more limited than usual lately, but this helped remind me to make some light progress on https://learnnatively.com/book/4c32f014a2/ (not super interesting) and 大阪豆ゴハン(1) | L24?? (slow going, since it’s all handwriting, and not the easiest content). Now I’ve just got a catch up with 明日もまた勇者のとなり 1 | L26 for the book club
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Yeah, there are like regular manga spreads that connect the chapters, but most of the chapter is written as 4 koma. Like I said before, it’s not hard 4 koma at all, so that’s really nice. But I get into a “Welp, I read a page” mindset and then just don’t go any farther, unlike if the exact same story was paneled like a regular manga. 
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