There is Fruits Basket as the #2 series, which is a manga (unless there is a LN adaptation that I don’t know of). So it looks like cat is just reading more books… 
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Yep, as @nikoru pointed out, I do read manga… It’s just eclipsed by my novel numbers. I have a much harder time getting into manga for some reason, and cost wise it just doesn’t seem worth it to me unless I were to do a manga renting service (if even available in my region…?) as the vast majority of manga I can read lazily over 2-3 days or, if I feel like it, in one evening.
Meanwhile, most 300 page books take me at minimum a week. There are a few exceptions to this, but overall I get way more bang for my buck with novels 
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never mind. I just can’t read. 
same. Which is why my overall manga volumes are actually pretty low. But Mandarake and book off have been quite good for that. I am still salty that companies make it so hard to access digital stuff from abroad.
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I’ve made a fair bit of progress, and I’m pleased to announce that it does slow down and start properly taking its time! And I’m definitely still enjoying it—in fact, am enjoying it more. We got a first kiss already, but it still feels like a slow burn. Zef holds some fondness for Villant but doesn’t quite recognize it for what it is/is growing into, in part due to his low valuation of himself as just a 地味でくたびれたおっさん, which I presume will be a character development point. Also he mentions Villant’s beauty about as much as Seigi does Richard’s, but I dunno why Seigi doing it makes me go, “Are you very certain you’re not bi,” whereas with Zef it feels closer to a statement of fact. Maybe because Seigi comes up with all these different ways to describe it while Zef mostly sticks to 美形? Still, he does mention it (and the color of his eyes) an awful lot for someone ostensibly not developing feelings lol
I dunno if it’s just the bigger pages, but I feel like I can read less of this in a day than Jeweler Richard. Like, it does feel easier (which tracks with their Natively levels), but at the same time it feels harder. It’s weird. I’d say maybe it’s the vocab, but I think lookups are pretty much the same…
My “break” from 2.43 only ended up being a few days this time, yay. I read ch 2-1 yesterday and am planning on reading 2-2 later today. If I read one subchapter a day, it might take a while, but I’ll be making steady progress while still hopefully having enough time to, like, emotionally process stuff.
My series and author charts are exactly the same currently, although once あさのあつこ gets added as an author of the Battery manga (for some reason she’s listed on vol 10 but not the first 9) that’ll change. 8 manga volumes + 4 novels = 1 more than 大島司 (although I still have the 4-vol continuation of アタック!! left to read, but then I also still have the last 2 vol of the Battery manga + I think 9 other novels, and that’s not counting the ones I wanna read but haven’t bought yet, so even if Ooshima takes the lead again, Asano will ultimately have him beat lol)
I wonder if I’ll ever read (finish) a series longer than HQ though. If I do ever get ダイヤのA like I want and finish both parts, that’ll be a new top author, but a single series…
I should start getting some novel authors into the ranking soon enough (esp. if it ever gets expanded into top 9/10 rather than top 4), but it was only this year that I started being able to read them comfortably, so it’s still all manga rn. (あさのあつこ, 天沢夏月, 壁井ユカコ, 辻村七子, and it’s looking like possibly 椹野道流 and 月村奎 too, are all in the running, though only 辻村七子 has a series long enough to potentially make that ranking!)
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Going through クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった | L26, and it’s been really refreshing. It’s the first time I can read an LN semi-extensively, without translation, and it feels really comfortable. It doesn’t feel like an exercise, and it’s the closest I’ve been to the way I feel when reading something in English (still a ways to go there)
Also the story is really nice. It’s technically a romance, but a very slow burn, and very much a story about friendships. The relationships are very organic, and the setting and character’s lives feel more realistic (in a good way) than a lot of other romances I’ve read. More I could say about it, but I’m gonna save it for writing a review!
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Well, I read one third of 東京かくりよ公安局 落チル月 (小学館文庫 Cま 1-3) | L31 instead… So, not doing that fine 
Technically, I also listened to this week’s 本好き part for the book club, but that’s not really reading, I guess.
Well… I bought a bunch more books, so I didn’t do great on that front either. Weee.
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Finished リング, my first “novel”, in almost 4 weeks, yeah.
Now I will finish off 魔女の宅急便 2, the book that sent me in my recent slump, end of June. But actually that’s not fair, as at that time I got a new TV set, and of course I had to test it, thoroughly. And then there also started the new season and reading got a bit out of focus.
All in all it took me 7 Yotsuba manga to come out of that slump 
I will spare the last three for the next one, which will come for sure…
Edit: Oops, sorry Naphthalene, wrong indentation…
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I finished it yesterday and it was okay. There were some slice-of-life-y parts (as in, just showing the everyday life of the characters), which was refreshing. One of the problem I had with the series so far, is that something is always happening (or about to happen). It was nice to see the characters just interacting with each other and the environment. Those parts were pretty short, though.
Anyway, I feel like the series is setting itself up for infinite number of volumes, each focusing on the problem of the week™. I mean, that’s pretty much what was happening so far, but at least there was some kind of overall build up (leading to this volume’s conclusion). But now that we are here (basically the big bad is now free and his cult is thus getting more active/energized), I feel like the situation can just be milked forever (the protagonists don’t have a way to defeat him as of now, so they have to get stronger™ first, which can obviously take as long as the author wants). I guess the author can also finish the series in the next book. That decision will probably depend on sales
I also went through ~30 pages of 香君 this morning and boy, that’s a lot of geopolitical info drop. I have to return it in 2 days, I think I’m going to be late 
especially if I join @cat’s watch party instead of having my Saturday morning reading time.
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And, of course, instead of reading 香君 during my lunch break, I went on and read something else. Every time I think “I have to do X”, my brain goes “by the way, have you considered all those other unrelated things you could be doing instead?”
So, instead I went with しまなみ誰そ彼 1 | L24 because it was picked by the LGBT book club on WK.
The stress of the main character having others suspect he is gay at school is really well depicted (and got me to feel physically sick and triggered some memories from high school, fun time). It also made the relief of being in a safe space later even more intense.
TL;DR that book was a mood, as the kids say these days.
Or maybe they don’t even say that anymore, I haven’t come across that expression in a while, it feels.
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I am so confused. I thought the story sounded familiar and it looks really familiar, but I can’t remember reading the manga. But there doesn’t seem to be an anime adaptation… so I must have read the manga… 
I am getting old. 
but I guess, I am not the only one…
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I don’t even know what I did today. I planned to get a bunch of reading in today and then just… didn’t.
Read a single page from an Amazon rec that actually wasn’t something already owned/wishlisted before getting distracted, read 1 subchapter of 2.43 (though it was a shorter one), and like 3 pages of おっさん聖女 (that chapter was also a shorter one, but I didn’t even finish it!)
Hopefully tomorrow will be better
Well, technically yesterday and today since I’m up before 4 after waking up in the middle of a dream from excitement, but I’m planning on getting some more sleep after this so shh
(I still say “mood,” at least! Although I’m [probably autistic and] always behind the times. And I’m nearing 30…)
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That gif is literally how I feel every time someone on the WK forum mentions they are in high school or undergrad.
But we are still young in our hearts!
(I do recommend that manga, by the way, in case you haven’t read it in the end)
Which is still young. That’s like one third of the average lifespan.
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Not exactly a kid anymore, though. I feel like I’m probably out of the age group that creates a lot of the slang (though granted that could also just be me always feeling out of the loop)
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I am fiiiinally caught up with 吸血鬼ドラキュラ @.@ I got behind the Daily Dracula entries back in August or September, and it’s taken some effort to catch back up. In all honesty, I had to set a rule for myself: anything longer than three or four pages in my Kindle and I read it in English; it was either that or never catch up. It worked out pretty well, honestly; anything longer than that was a really long section, and everything else was about that long.
I’m hoping that now that I’m caught up, I can read the rest straight through in Japanese. The book itself is not a particularly difficult read, but I’ve been so strapped for time that this was the best I could do. I’ve covered something like 400 pages in trying to catch up, split across English and Japanese. (The Japanese translation is about double the length of the original English book, for context.)
Next entry is on the 15th, so that gives me some time to catch up with my other book clubs.
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Hoping to finish 魔法少年なつき×らびっツ 1 | L23 today, having left it languishing for so long.
I’m about halfway through ひだまりが聴こえる | L24 which I’m reading along with the drama CD. Already read the series a few times in English, it’s nice to finally be able to read it in Japanese. 
Also started 犬木加奈子の魅世物叢書 1 | L24?? to get into the spooky spirit~ 
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Dang, @bibliothecary, I’m going to have to temporarily unfriend you or something at this rate to save my poor activity feed; you’ve been adding books like crazy these past few days. What’s your secret?
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Oh, the manga version of 穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ is in there! The LN is what I wanted to nominate in the BL book club.
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Biblio single-handedly making an argument for being able to stack adds from one person into a single update slot, lol
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Oooh, I remember that old product request.
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You make it sound like you are talking about @Biblio but are in fact talking about @bibliothecary 
Now if Biblio also started adding that much stuff… that would be a sight, at least.
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