# 🐇 Week 4 | 幻獣調査員 🦇

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**Category:** Book Clubs\
**Tags:** bookclub, 幻獣調査員\
**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931 "2025-02-24T13:04:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931/1 "2025-02-24T13:04:32Z")

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Welcome to the reading club for **幻獣調査員**!

 ![genjuu_chousain](https://do4ryrayvtpwi.cloudfront.net/original/2X/7/7a073e0414abba0cee2b7d4d11706c19dbc40ac9.jpeg)

[Home Thread](http://forums.learnnatively.com/t/home-thread-for-week-1/14110) | [week 3](http://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-3/14807) | [week 5](http://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-5/15074)

# Reading Schedule

| Week | Chapters (inclusive) | # of Pages | Ending sentence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Week 4 | Chapter 3 | 31 | (end of ch. 3) |

> **[Genjuu Chousain – Prebuilt decks – jpdb](https://jpdb.io/novel/15677/genjuu-chousain)**
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> 6001 unique words, 1722 kanji, 6/10 difficulty

# Discussion Guidelines

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_Poll ([view on site](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931/1))_

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**Author:** ![mic](https://deyr2qldo994j.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.learnnatively.com/mic/32/1566_2.png) [@mic](https://forums.learnnatively.com/u/mic)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931/2 "2025-02-25T22:18:35Z")

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This time it was a sad love story without happy end between several generations of men in a family and a mermaid, which may go on for ever. The mermaid would even continue it if in some generation a girl instead of a guy would be borne, as it seems.

But the guys in typical Japanese manner, see 甘え chapter in 日本人の心がわかる日本語, could not cope with the mermaid being overly nice to them without appropriate compensation from their side. Weird business like thinking, which means it wasn‘t love in the first place, I would say.

Nonetheless all in all I liked the story.

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**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931/3 "2025-03-17T19:53:28Z")

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I felt this story - or all the stories so far - was kinda shallow.  
For a story about a mythical beast investigator it would be nice if the beast weren’t just run of the mill stuff. And some actual investigations were happening.

The bunny guy is the most interesting overall.

We learned that the stories are actually chronological, except for the interludes. The setup seems to point at MC girl learning how the world works, but she doesn’t do any pondering or reflection in the scenes we see.

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**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/week-4/14931/4 "2025-03-17T20:31:05Z")

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I think I remember that she well ponders, but about the human genjuu relationships, which is what she is interested in. But I may confuse books here, so I am not really sure anymore.