Week 2 - 雨でも晴れでも - Yuri/GL/wlw book club

Welcome to Week 2 of 雨でも晴れでも :slight_smile:

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Week 2 July 14, 2024
Chapter 2
Pages 45 - 86
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chapter 2

Mikoto is a Disney princess. Animals follow her wherever she goes. A cat :smiley_cat:, a bear :bear:, a penguin :penguin:, a rabbit :rabbit2: and a lion :lion:. I think the penguin is the only one that kinda looks like one, though.

My theory is that a large reason Nekozaki is always so irritated is Mikoto. Having that crush puts her under a lot of stress.

I remembered 花粉症! I think I had it in my vocabs at some point. And I read this manga before. It’s so easy to recognize. It just makes sense.

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It feels like there were more words that I didn’t know in this chapter compared to last chapter. This is definitely feeling more difficult than other level 22 manga that I’ve read. I wonder how the level will shift after the book club is finished. :thinking:

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美古都’s little faces through-out this chapter were really cute.

I’m a little surprised that 猫崎 making a rule-exception for 美古都 actually came back in this chapter. I honestly thought it was just a throw-away thing for some light conflict in the first chapter.

I was expecting 猫崎 to find some way to stay involved with the club, but I was not expecting her to become the advisor. Will definitely cause chaos in the group.

After 猫崎’s multiple failed attempts to confess last chapter, this page near the end of this chapter felt like 美古都’s payback.

Also, I just about melted at 美古都 with glasses. So cute!
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And the way the title was brought into context at the end of the chapter was quite nice. I felt like the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme when I read that, lol.

To be completely honest, I wasn’t aware that was what hay fever was until I had to look up 花粉症. I just knew it was a sickness related to spring. No idea it was just allergies. :sweat_smile:

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It’s kind of annoying that there’s no ToC. I had to check here to see how long the chapter was.

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I entirely concur - especially cuz I had to thumb through the entire volume to make the table in the home thread (good thing I read it already)

It’s almost as annoying as when manga chapters in magazines don’t put the chapter number :upside_down_face:

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Opposite for me, and the lookups I did have were largely semi-familiar words. I’d say this feels comparable to other L22 manga I’ve read. Easier than some, harder than others. But I’m also further away from that level than I used to be

Out of curiosity, what’s making it feel difficult? Vocab, grammar, handwriting, dialect? I’m frustrated to discover I never wrote a review, so I can’t check what I found easy/hard about it the first time around :frowning:

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素直じゃない子ね… Esp considering she’s literally lying and breaking rules, while being a student council rep… that will definitely stress you out. I hope she can chill a bit more soon.

And theドキドキ moments continue… That one was great!! :heart_eyes_cat:

It’s one of my fav things about this chapter!!

My other fav is Tsubaki being absolutely hilarious (tho I feel bad for her having to put up with Nekozaki being so inconsiderate and constantly ignoring her). Also I love her just being like “ok, yeah whatever, Nekozaki’s your advisor now” without blinking an eye

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It’s the vocab that’s an issue for me. I was looking up several words a page, which I was not expecting going into this manga. The grammar is perfectly fine; I haven’t ran into a single point so far where the grammar was an issue for me.

I think it’s just that this mangaka’s writing style is different from others I have read, because the words that I looked up seemed to be normal, everyday words that I just hadn’t ran into before.

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I definitely think this is more like level ~24 than 22 based on the first two chapters.

Not sure how I feel about it so far. I’m finding the art style + low resolution scans makes it hard to keep track of who is who, and the story hasn’t really pulled me in yet.

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Interesting… Looking at my L23-24s, I find a good number of those to be harder than the first two chapters, for various reasons.

It’s possible my having read it (a year and a half ago) is influencing my perception. There’s a lot I don’t remember, but it probably makes it easier to track the characters at least. I’ll be curious to see how the level looks post-book club

Sry to hear. Hope next week’s chapter will do better there

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