I briefly started 夜は短し歩けよ乙女 | L43 last week, but I think I’m in the mood for something a bit easier instead. What should it be?
サイレント・ウィッチ II 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと | L29
Second LN in a fairly new series. The shy witch Monika becomes an undercover student at Definitely Not Hogwarts to protect the young prince (and student council president) from being assassinated. With the help of her cat!
かがみの孤城 | L28
I’ll be honest, I know nothing about this book. I’ve just seen so many people recommend it that I had to pick it up. The hardcover edition I have is also very pretty… I’ll probably read this next if I don’t now.
推し、燃ゆ | L37
I’m also not too familiar with this one, but it was the best selling novel of 2021 and is actually really short. Written by a 21 year old too, so I imagine it’s a very modern perspective.
人外教室の人間嫌い教師2 ヒトマ先生、私たちの希望を見つけてくれますか......? | L27
Another sequel to an LN I’ve read. The first one was a bit rough around the edges, and very campy with its LN tropes, but also had interesting ideas. I’m mostly in it because I like the artist though.
I do not know, sorry. It looks like it could be two volumes for every one of the original based on the covers, but I can’t say if there are other changes besides furigana usage. That said, if you just planned to read two of these, you might be better off just waiting a bit and then jumping into the regular version when you’re comfortable. If you don’t know much kanji but have a good grasp of the language otherwise, maybe then you’d benefit from reading an entire arc or two from this version. (It looks like they probably need two more volumes to finish arc two, assuming the two volumes to one original holds the whole time.)
I’m trying to catch up with 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ and then 本好き was one of the options I was considering, but my Kanji game is not there yet, so it was a nice surprise seeing that version pop up.
If they are the same, even if they are divided in volumes, then I can eventually jump to the normal ones, or if for some reason the Junior version doesn’t get updated, I can also jump and continue where they stopped.
I found a chiebukuro answer that says they’re the same, just with full furigana and extra illustrations (!), and they split the 3 books of Part One into 6 volumes. Also, apparently some of the post-epilogue content from the last volume is removed, which seems strange as it becomes very significant later on, so maybe make the switch then?
That’s a shame. Maybe it’s incorporated when it becomes significant later on? It would make sense as they are aimed to younger audiences and makes the pacing more follow-able IMHO.
So for when you refer to last volume, you mean of Part one or of the currently published? Chiebukuro is region locked as Yahoo auctions too, so I can not check myself without having to play with VPNs.
Thanks, I guess I could also go jump to the post-epilogue on the original books as to make sure not to miss, then return to the “easy” ones.
But we will see, I still have 4 volumes of 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ to go through, and although I want to pick up the speed pace, I don’t see myself finishing them this month.
Looks like I’ll be reading かがみの孤城 | L28 next! This is pretty much the result I expected based on past polls here, but it was still fun. Might even do this again sometime, who knows
The main thing is if to continue alone with 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ, start something new, or take both at the same time and read that day whatever I’m in the mood.
I never even noticed you could do it via the UI. I just google the markdown for polls on discourse or steal the setup from a previous post I’ve made
Also I voted for regular version re: kanji but IMO that’s a very personal thing in regards to your tolerance for lookups. Mine is probably higher than average so that’s how I voted but only you know your own tolerance.
Since seems like one way or the other, I’m going for 本好きの下剋上:
Anyone has a Anime episode - Book volume equivalent without spoilers?
I haven’t watched the anime myself, but I’d love to give it a go after reading, to see how much I got.
I’m afraid to google it and getting it spoiled, as at this point I’d rather go blind.
