Week 1 | 事情を知らない転校生がグイグイくる | 癒系 Book Club

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Summary - Japanese

からかわれてる女の子。クスクス笑うクラスメイト。転校生の高田くんは、そんなクラスの事情は知らない。だからまっすぐ、彼女に届く。小学生のころを思い出す、心洗われるストーリー。

Summary - English

A girl being teased. A classmate giggling. Takada, a transfer student, doesn’t know what’s going on in his class. That’s why it reaches her straight away. A heartwarming story that reminds you of your elementary school days.
<For upper elementary students, with furigana provided for all kanji>

Reading Schedule

Week Chapters Pages Percent
1 1 - 4 3 - 32
2 5 - 7 33 - 68
3 8 - 12 69 - 106
4 13 - end 107 - 143

Discussion Guidelines

  • Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
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  • Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
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Will you be reading along when the club starts?
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  • No :no_entry_sign:
  • Maybe :thinking:
  • I’ll be reading, but at my own pace :open_book: :spiral_calendar:
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What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
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The chapter lengths for this volume are as low as 4 pages and as many as 18. 3, 4, and 5 weeks break up into mostly equal reading weeks, but 6 weeks is a bit rougher with where some of the 18 page chapters fall.

If it helps to decide, the manga looks like it only has furigana on names, and has a decent amount of text per page. I looked through a few pages and the first page seems fairly representative of the amount of text on an average page.

First page text density

How quickly would you be comfortable reading?
  • 3 weeks | ~48 pg/week
  • 4 weeks | ~35 pg/week
  • 5 weeks | ~28 pg/week
  • Other (comment below)
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Aaaaaaaah! I don’t follow the 癒系 book club at all, but that’s one of my favorite manga series! The titular 転校生 is just adorable.

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Life™ keep getting in the way, but our poll closed a few days ago with a tie between 3 and 4 weeks, and since most of the votes were duplicated across the two choices, I made the decision to have us read the book in 4 weeks (schedule above). See you all in a few weeks when we start on Feb 24!

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:tada: Looking forward to it!

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And we’re off with week 1, in which our 転校生 encounters a 死神?!

Week Chapters Pages Percent
1 1 - 4 3 - 32

If anyone is reading the ebook and wants to share end percentages for the weeks that would be great! I uh… liberated my copy and don’t have ebook percentages in my reader.

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Booklive doesn’t have percentages for manga either :thinking: I guess it’s more common to have page numbers for manga,

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Amazon does (I’m pretty sure?), and I can load it up into my Kindle if need be. But also if no one else is reading on Kindle it probably doesn’t matter :sweat_smile:

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I’ll be reading on Kindle, but I’m going to be in a weird situation for the next few days where I’ll have little/no Internet access, so if no one has gotten back to you by the end of the week I can. :slight_smile:

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I checked with a random free manga on the kindle app, and you are correct! It shows both pages and percentage (feels redundant to me, but why not).

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