🐱 Week 8 and following | 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険 ✨

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Since we’re now 30% into the book and the threads have become quite short, week 8 and following will be in this thread from now on.

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Home Thread: 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険

We’re reading this book as part of the Beginner’s Light Novel Book Club.

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Week 8 July 12
Chapter 第三話 成長を求めて (part 1/3)
End Percentage 39.21%
End Page 128
Read until 味は文句無しだったが、完食するまでには、だいぶ時間が掛かってしまった。 ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆
Home Thread 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険

Participation Poll

  • I’m reading along :cat2:
  • I have fallen behind and I’m planning to catch up later :dog2:
  • I’m reading this at my own pace :paw_prints:
  • I’m reading this book after the club has finished :spiral_calendar:
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Week 8 thoughts

ゴブリンが走り寄ってくるコース上に、空属性魔法で作った刃渡り十五センチほどのダガーナイフを固定しておいたのだ。

Oh, smart!

胸や腹から滴る血の量を見れば、このまま見守っているだけでもゴブリンを倒せそうだが、それでは冒険した意味が無いと思った。

That’s a dangerous way of thinking.

…aaaand not much to say about the other parts. I guess we’re mostly back to powering up, which I guess is necessary, but not very exciting to read about.

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Week 9 July 19
Chapter 第三話 成長を求めて (part 2/3)
End Percentage 43.69%
End Page 143
Read until この後、ゼオルさんと一緒に周囲の話に聞き耳を立てながら、いろんな冒険者の話を教えてもらった。◆◆◆◆
Home Thread 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険

Participation Poll

  • I’m reading along :cat2:
  • I have fallen behind and I’m planning to catch up later :dog2:
  • I’m reading this at my own pace :paw_prints:
  • I’m reading this book after the club has finished :spiral_calendar:
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Week 9 thoughts

「爺ちゃん、なんでニャンゴなんかを連れて行くんだよ」

I have the same question, but about someone else.

「こんな奴、何の役にも立ちやしないよ」

I cannot insert GIFs into detail sections, but… just imagine this GIF here.

こいつは、俺に命を助けられた事も叩きのめされた事も忘れているのだろうか。

My only explanation is that Nyango hit him so hard that he suffers from memory loss now.

村長にしてみれば、理由はどうあれ親元を離れての生活で、ミゲルのわがままな性格が矯正できるのであればと考えているのかもしれない。

Yes please!

「こ、こんなの雨の日以外は役に立たないよ」

Nyango can shield a big area from rain, but can he also open a hole directly above Miguel?

壊れやすく設定した空気の塊で、尖った棘のようなものを作り、犬人の冒険者の周りに幾つも展開してやった。
チクっとするが、すぐに壊れる。痛みに驚いて体を反応させると、別の棘が刺さる。

Damn, Nyango can be absolutely ruthless.

Well, that got much better after that pretty weak start about… *checks notes* the job market in the city and its implications for a background character we’ll probably never see again.

A new environment? Potentially a new character who ? Nyango actually doing adventurer-type work? Yes please.

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Week 8

これなら冒険者としてやっていけるかもしれない

But will it be in this volume…? :joy:

More training and committing goblin atrocities but I think I’ve gotten a handle on this book’s vocab/writing style and reading is feeling a lot smoother.

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Week 9

I did it, I caught up! :triumph: :muscle:

:joy:

I was wondering about the brother character too. Has he even been named? Are we supposed to care? I thought the same thing in the last part when Nyango was randomly like ‘and my brother has been lazing around the house,’ I was like, your what now? Because we haven’t had any development around the family characters at all.

Overall I thought this was a pretty good section, kind of something I was expecting from the beginning of the book :joy: Going to a new place, going to the tavern with all the hardened adventurers, meeting new characters, crossing my fingers that the adventure is starting! Although the female bartender character was a bit stereotypical and I rolled my eyes at that a bit, but we’ll let it slide.

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Week 9 Reply

Nice!! Welcome to the forefront of Nyango’s Soon To Be Had Adventure!

I don’t think he has. And yeah, I was wondering about it too when he came up before. And now we follow up on him… hum hum. Maybe they’ll meet again in the city and the brother will play a role then? At least I don’t think the book had other completely irrelevant parts so far. Boring parts, yes; but this feels like the first time that it has talked about something that feels completely unrelated to the story.

Either way, it’s weird that the book suddenly goes “I guess halfway in is the best time to meet Nyango’s family, so…”

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I fell behind as I was sick the whole week last week :frowning: hope to catch up to at least mid week 9 this week. I’m about halfway through week 8 right now.

Thoughts so far

The powering up by eating the goblin’s heart was certainly a… thing. The first thing on my mind was if he couldn’t just eat a part of it every day or something to slow down the process, lol. But I guess that wouldn’t be feasible anyway (no storage of food/place that he could actually store it in at home)?

I just started the part on winter and regarding the habits of cat people, which I find a bit more interesting to read. Funny how he basically mentions that his family stinks though :sweat_smile:

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week 8

:grimacing: I feel like we’re going to see this again, maybe with a stronger magical creature like a kobold and then an orc.

I wonder if eating a person’s heart gives the same benefit (they have magical powers after all), then the story would truly progress to horror where Nyango is the bad guy. (I don’t think this is going to happen, just taking this idea to its logical conclusion)

I think all the talk about cat people being dirty is cat slander. Cats are very clean animals!

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Now that you mention it, it does seem like the author has some kind of bias against cats. Cat people are small, weak, smell bad… it’s a bit strange, right? Especially considering cats are generally very smart and clean (I am constantly surprised when I see how much my cat interacts with me and understands what I say!)

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Right, you would think there might be something about how they’re clever, or more athletic and can jump high… but I guess being clever is reserved only for Nyango since he’s the protagonist.

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Week 10 July 26
Chapter 第三話 成長を求めて (part 3/3)
End Percentage 49.14%
End Page 159
Read until End of Chapter
Home Thread 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険

Participation Poll

  • I’m reading along :cat2:
  • I have fallen behind and I’m planning to catch up later :dog2:
  • I’m reading this at my own pace :paw_prints:
  • I’m reading this book after the club has finished :spiral_calendar:
0 voters
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Week 10

紙のようにペラペラではなく、厚さ三センチぐらいに空気を固めて魔法陣を作ると、ボンっという音とともに炎が噴き上がった。

And with this, the cover image is complete!

  • Airwalking: Check.
  • Stylish eye patch: Check.
  • Wielding fire magic: Check.

And I’m honestly surprised we didn’t get 10 pages of him trying to properly copy the magic circles :sweat_smile:

火と風の魔法陣を重ねると、ボォーっと音を立てて炎が大きく噴き上げられた。

Show this to Miguel! Please! :laughing:

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