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[N2] 光が死んだ夏

In February I tackled a manga, that I've been curious about for a while: When 光が死んだ夏 was published as a tankōbon in 2022 and was immediately a hit, I unfortunately only read the very first chapter before I gave up.

This was because it is set in a rural area of Japan and is told almost entirely in dialect, which I didn't have any experience in back then.

Now that I'm more used to reading various texts in Japanese, I wanted to try reading this series once more and found that what was a significant hurdle a few years ago, was now easily manageable and I was able to read the 6 volumes comfortably back to back even.

There's of course the (eldritch?) horror and the grief of losing your best friend paired with the confusion over the thing that replaced him becoming him, but interwoven with that is also the theme of being young in a rural and mostly elderly community steeped in incomprehensible traditions. And both of these themes mesh extremely well!

I would recommend N2 reading abilities, but the manga has furigana on all kanji and is not particularly difficult to read except for the dialect, which you can look up and also will get used to after a while.

You can read the first few chapters and all new chapters for free on the publisher's official site:

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各話一覧｜光が死んだ夏｜ヤングエースUP公式サイト

「光が死んだ夏」（モクモクれん）の無料配信中のエピソード一覧です。

Number 4. Baby/kid. I skipped 3 as Kaira doesn't have a pet. 2.new clothes

Mob in the style of Serial Experiments Lain, or so I tried heh

this warms my little heart so muchhh I love them!!

TRIGUN × BBB

oh my god hahahaha

This is how Queers for Palestine seem to think Queer rights are in Palestine based on how much they support it...

No Courtney from Ohio they/them in Bio you can NOT get your fucking top surgery at Palestine Hamas would shoot you with the slightest hint that you're queer, get a grip and drink your damn pumpkin spice latte.

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Turned 21 today🎉☆ hanging out with me cat sons :D

Number 8, wounded. 7. with another OC

*yeets Ivan art into the void and fucks off again*

Koi in March

Japanese Learning Resources

As a Japanese tutor, I wanted to share my favorite resources/ learning materials I share with my students in class that I am familiar with o

My master list of Japanese learning resources! I use these myself/ when teaching my students, so I am very familiar with almost all of these!

Happy learning! Please feel free to reach out if you're not sure where to start!

EDIT: I added my favorite extensions and dictionaries! Check it out!