明日の世界で星は煌めく Volume 3 - Week 4

Now reading volume 3 of 明日の世界で星は煌めく, which we’re reading as an offshoot club from the beginner LN club.

I’ve posted a tentative schedule but need to revisit it later. I’ll either do section breaks for chapters 2+3 or find suitable ending points. I’ll also probably remove week 10.

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Schedule

Week Start Date Chapter Percent (end of week)
Week 1 26th July prologue + Chapter 1.1 to 1.3 14
Week 2 2nd August Chapter 1.4 + 1.5 24
Week 3 9th August Chapter 2.1 + 2.2 31
Week 4 16th August Chapter 2.3 + 2.4 46
Week 5 23rd August will edit! 60?
Week 6 30th August Chapter 3 part 1 70?
Week 7 6th September Chapter 3 part 2 80
Week 8 13th September Chapter 3 part 3 85
Week 9 20th September Chapter 3 part 4 95
Week 10 28th June to end 100

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Nice to see we’re starting off with some yuri thoughts. I didn’t need all the summary of last book, but understandable to have it. Not much to comment yet

Week 1 thoughts

再会したのは二週間ほど前のこと。

It’s been two weeks?!?!

印刷ではなく筆による手書き。古文とまではいかないが、かなり昔の文体だ。漢字も今とは少し違うものや、難しくて読めないものもある。

Hehe, I’m familiar with that

国語の教科書に載っていた明治・大正時代ぐらいの小説が近いけど、それより文章が硬くて読みづらい。

Tricky

Btw, on my Kindle, the end is p36 12% (13% on natively). Audio timestamp is about 39:54

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Reading week 2.

I’ll catch up soonish.

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Week 2 thoughts

Love that there’s a gardening 使い魔

Sorry, what?! The theory is they launched or transferred zombies/whatever started them, from a satellite?! Not buying this. Love the illustration tho

そう思ってじまうのは、帆乃夏や羽衣には見せたくない私の弱さだった

??? Idgi what’s the weakness/things she’s ashamed of her

Bath thing - glad うい is helping them make some progress

Interesting about her barely seeing nudity, in part from not having a smartphone

Love that they actually had a proper information exchange in the bath, and it wasn’t just some fan service scene

Great that they have a concrete destination and goal, and that Yuki will get to level up.

I wonder if we’ll ever get to meet the dad, and like what happened to him exactly? Why isn’t he out here saving the world, since they’re supposed to be all OP?

Reading week 3!

I’ll catch up soonish. I hope!

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Week 3

This was a very week weak. 95% was logistics and action that doesn’t contribute anything. And I love the voice actors (especially Honoka is great, I think, she is really good with expressing humor in what she says). But they are so slow.

I actually sped up large parts.

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I’m a bit behind rn, but will probably catch up with Weeks 3-4 this coming week.

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Reading week 4!

I’ve at least started reading, nearly finished week 1.

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