i think it’s really cool that the split version covers form a whole picture
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I’ve listened to it not once but twice so I agree on it being well made. Really great voice acting and I especially liked that the young girls sounded like…actual young girls. Some audiobooks seem to think they need to make girls’ voices super high pitched to sound ‘young’ and it drives me nuts.
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Oh wow, I didn’t even know that it would actually be getting an anime adaptation any time soon, but I guess that since it got a manga adaptation that that would be the next likely step 
You two are really selling me on this. I have never listened to an audiobook before, but I’m excited at the prospect of being able to work on listening comprehension and reading comprehension in one go. I might have to bump this up my list instead of また、同じ夢を見ていた being my next book.
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Along those lines: Oregairu has really well made audiobooks, too… 
so does また、同じ夢を見ていた
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I hope you are better now. It sucks if people are not trying to help and you have no one to advocate for you, if you aren’t in a position to do so yourself. You only miss your social network when it’s not there. 
Culturally, “help” is really interesting, imo… in the US, it was my experience that people will try to throw help at you even if you really just want to be left alone. Here (Austria), it’s more like, ask for help and you will be given. But unless you ask, ppl will assume you are doing OK, because anything else will be impolite. In Japan, there is a huge difference between city and countryside. I’ve found people in the “countryside” (i.e. not Tokyo and other megacities) much more willing to help.
I got lost in Fukuoka on my first trip to Japan and couldn’t find my host family. It was getting late and I went into a random official looking building. Someone set me down (it was July, I was tired and must have looked the part) and gave me something to drink. Someone went out to find a police officer to help locate the family and someone then accompanied me to my host family (about 10 minutes on foot). And at no point in time was I feeling like I was annoying them. And this has been my general experience outside of the really large cities.
Sorry for the OT. I wish there was a function like on discord, where you can branch off a thread from an existing channel. 
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ngl, they were just being petty because I got called back by my American doctors and they originally refused to let me go my American school had to get involved, so their stance was “you’re no longer our student, we won’t help.” Thankfully, I had a lot of wonderful friends, so somebody else took off work to help me when I needed it. Other people were fine for me, too! I was commonly known as the “train girl” around town 
I like trains so much that I would just go ride for fun, so they were used to telling me that my train home was going to stop running at a certain point.
But it did make me take a good look at how disabilities are dealt with in Japan. I didn’t know that the 五体不満足 | L29 book existed, but I had encountered enough to change my senior thesis to talk about a specific disabled community there. If anyone is interested in seeing a semi-realistic portrayal of disability (in)accessibility in Japan, I think パーフェクトワールド(1) | L23 might be a good look. I didn’t even get to finish reading it because I wanted to cry lol. It was interesting seeing this written from the perspective of someone from Japan acknowledging a lack of accessibility. It’s not perfect and has many pitfalls (since the author isn’t disabled), but I do wonder how many people it got thinking. Honestly, I can’t expect too much because it’s a manga and the disability model is not it’s main theme. I was too busy looking at it from a sociological and anthropological standpoint lmao. Otherwise, I think it’s a great read. I also think ゆびさきと恋々 1 | L20 does a good job at pointing towards lack of accomodations by facilities (and others) sometimes, too.
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Yikes, I came to talk about the junk I’ve been reading today, but that doesn’t seem to match the mood. 
Well, I’ll leave it at “I’ve been reading pulp with absolutely no literary quality and I’m having a great time”.
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lol, the majority of what i read has no value 
i am trying to change that, but it always takes longer because the words that get introduced might be words I’ll never use again–or maybe I should never say never lol. When I was reading それでも歩は寄せてくる 1 | L20 I thought “im never gonna use shogi terms” but since there’s a good amount of wordplay, I’ve started using some of the verbs and other words I’ve learned from the book that weren’t shogi-related
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OMG–I did not notice that…I need to go re-read it rn lol
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Yeah, I had a similar experience when I went to Ishigaki.
Reading wise, I just finished 迷探偵の条件. I noticed the author also wrote 薬屋のひとりごと 1、which is level 36 
That might explain why I found the book hard… lots of new vocab.
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This week I have been reading とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ 2 羽根つき餃子×幻の竜 | L28 and 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31
Now that I am in the second book for とんでもスキル I am finding it very easy to read. I still check maybe 1-5 words per page and there is somewhat frequent N1, N2 grammar, so it’s really good practice. I think the writers for this and also 無職転生 are quite skilled and thus are pretty popular among Japanese light novel readers. The manga also seems very popular.
I’m still reading
I will probably finish on Friday. They are nice short stories for learning, that actually keep you reading (at least for me). If you are familiar with ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 it is basically like this, just a bit more dark?
@Megumin I’m glad you and @Wakaman found that series and reviewed it so that I stumbled upon it. I have one story and the epilogue left in Volume 1 and will defiantly keep reading. Still have two volumes of the series lying around here.
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Glad you liked it!
The last chapter is when they give more story of the main characters and it connects with the short Prologue in the beginning. Is usually a bit longer than the rest, but still very fun to read. (Not sure if it happened in Vol.1 as that was almost half a year ago).
I have to rush so you don’t beat me to catching up then 
There’s something fun about registering yourself as the first reader of a book.
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Yes, it seems like it. I took a short look. The chapter is about the same girl who found that book (the catalogue probably) in the prologue. It is a bit longer also.
Don’t worry I only own three volumes yet. Most likely I won’t order physical books again until the end of September (roughly). And I won’t continue digitally because I already got three physical volumes.
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I have a bunch of books (about 30) that are all about lvl 25-30.
I trying to read what appeals to me the most, but also sometimes trying new unrated/unreviewed stuff to hopefully expand options of people.
If something on this site has too many reviews I usually will skip it 
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I am now much further in the first book of かがみの孤城 and, indeed, there is more to it than shown at the beginning. Also, the MC is not as annoying anymore. I still prefer the other people, but I am ok with her. 
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Oh-ho. Written by 薬屋’s author, huh? 
How did you like the book?
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I actually already picked up two other series because of your reviews that sounded interesting to me. 人狼サバイバル 1 絶体絶命! 伯爵の人狼ゲーム and 絶体絶命ゲーム.
金の月のマヤ 1 黒のエルマニオ sounds interesting as well. Maybe I will order it with my next batch.
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Just started book 2 of かがみの孤城. A theory started to form in my head about halfway through book 1 and I think it might just now have been confirmed. Which is kinda funny because if I am right, 90% of the book would be gone, if people just talked about the right things or asked the right questions 
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I don’t know what it is about this book, but it’s such an easy and quick read. I haven’t had to look up a single thing thus far. (When reading physical books, I only look up stuff, that prevents me from understanding the sentence.) Could all books be like this, please? 
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