And I’m done with 2.3. I thought I wouldn’t have anything to say though, but then Honoka dropped this:
「そう？ まあいいじゃん。今は男女ビョードーな世の中だし。男も女も、みーんなゾンビ」
I thought she was just going for “we’re living in modern times”. I did not expect that last part 
Audio book track time stamp: 0:52:15
Also done with week 6. I’m enjoying this very much. (Which unfortunately means I will likely need to find time to read the other volumes in the series). I… obviously never been in a zombie apocalypse myself . But I find the way they feel and react to it very convincing and understandable.
And I’m caught up
I agree with @bbo, I’m really enjoying this story (which is good, I bought all 3 of the books a few months back when they were on sale 
).
Now the struggle is going to be not reading ahead of the club …
I’m glad y’all are enjoying it so much 
I started a little late (like 4 days ago) but am already on week 4 so I should hopefully catch up soon!
Welcome, glad to have you
We’re now on Week 7. Ch 2.4. End pg: 119. End percent: 47%
Well that was a gut punch of a section.
I like how we’re slowly getting backstory for both of our leads.
I feel like we’re setting up a showdown that is Yuki wanting Honoka to be safe but Honoka needing to do something dangerous to find out about her sister (but there are also 2 more books that she’s on the cover of so she can’t be in too much danger in this book at least ).
そういうところでも魔女の力は役に立つ。
In fact, it’s so practical that any zombie apocalypse team should at least have one magician. It’s not just a great weapon, but also a great replacement for things that used to use electricity!
「え……別にそんなことは……屍人の腐臭に比べたら、全然大したことないですよ」
That’s, uh… good? 
恐らく自分はもう……死んで、いるから……捜す必要はない……って……
Aww. I was wondering what was up with her dad. He obviously prepared very well for her to be defended, so why wasn’t he there? I half assumed that he was doing some kind of… anti-zombie magic mission in some other place and would then come back, but it seems like if it’s a mission like that, he doesn’t expect to come home.
Now I’m wondering why he didn’t tell her about magic earlier though. Wouldn’t that leave her prepared even more? Telling her about the whole zombie apocalypse business could have been ill-advised and might’ve been hard to believe anyway, but magic could’ve been practical.
(Of course just because he didn’t expect to survive doesn’t mean he’s actually dead.)
照れを隠すように、帆乃夏はちょっと早口で避難先の状況を語った。
Considering I’m listening along to the audiobook (or rather trying to)… yeah, definitely “ちょっと早口”
「うん──それ以外に言いようがないっていうか……とにかく普通の屍人じゃなかった。すごく体が大きくて……頭は人間っていうより動物……狼みたいな感じで……そいつにバリケードが突破されたんだ」
A zombie werewolf?!
So… I guess now we finally have a goal. Pursuing the zombie werewolf, trying to get Honoka’s sister back.
To be honest, it seems a little bit far-fetched to assume that she was kidnapped just because there wasn’t a zombiefied Honoka’s sister, and even if she was, why would she still be alive and well? What possible use could a zombie werewolf have for a kidnapped human that wouldn’t involve killing them?
But considering this will be the central goal for at least a while, I assume it’s not just a wild goose chase. Or at least, that her sister was actually kidnapped. Whether she is still alive and/or a non-zombie and can be saved is another matter I guess.
I kind of assumed that we’ll fairly quickly get to “let’s go together”, but maybe you’re right!
Timestamp: 1:24:54
haha I had the same thought!
I think they will pretty quickly go together, but somewhere along the way this will happen. Probably around 75% of the book 
Maybe they aren’t “zombies” at all, and she just compares/groups them with the normal zombies because that’s the only other kind of monster that she knows of.
It makes more sense to me that this city has some protection such that those “werewolves”, that might have existed before, can’t enter, rather than that it has a protection that the dead only become normal zombies rather than werewolf zombies.
To be honest I was pretty middling on this book until this section. I mean, it’s still setup but I resigned myself to it. It feels more interesting now finally knowing more details about the state of the world and just what her dad told Yuki
At this point I assume the book will end with them setting off together to search.
Now on Week 8: ch 2.5-end of ch 2. End pg/percent: 143 / 57%
I’m glad I was wrong and it didn’t take till the end of the book for them to set out together. But it wasn’t an interesting section for me, I was kind of bored.
Just finished week 6. Enjoying it so far. Will hopefully catch up by the end of next week (would have done so earlier, but I have multiple things on the go!).
I’m only partially through week 8:
There are two expressions I found quite interesting in that they were somewhat new to me but really good examples in this book.
First, 手あたり次代, which I had learned in some SRS, but not seem such a clear example in the wild. Yuki calling whatever numbers she can “get her hands on” is a pretty good metal picture.
The second is ダメ元. Yuki understands that nothing will come out of it, but tires the numbers anyway because it would be stupid not to check and because she had a small hope one number will connect her to someone. Calling it ダメ元 is probably her way of managing her expectations.
Also, her dad and Honoka are the only two people in the world Yuki seemingly cares about. But it made me think someone surviving the apocalypse would probably become sad all the time by remembering random people and realizing they are probably dead .
I think you mean 手当たり次第
That was one of my “learned via SRS” words, so was cool seeing in the wild
Didn’t she do some of that earlier on? Probably depends how much you dislike ppl/those people in general… But I think You’re right
I didn’t mean to say she wouldn’t do that. But I was thinking along the lines of, years into the apocalypse suddenly thinking: “My piano teacher. I wonder what happened to them. Oh , right, probably dead. Like everyone else”. Yuki remembered a death she had seen earlier that day.
It’s hard to put my finger on why exactly, but I have felt similarly - for a few weeks, actually. In the beginning it was hard for me to stop, now it’s hard for me to read for longer periods of time. Maybe the freshness of the whole “magic in a zombie setting” has worn a bit off? Maybe the sections were a bit slower? I don’t know.
Here’s to hoping that the adventure they are embarking on will rekindle my interest!
We’re now on Week 9
Ch 3-3.1, ending pg: 159, ending percent: 64%
