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6 months ago

best part about learning japanese is being able to read and also eventually understand recognizeable words i hear in music or media. worst part is preparing to talk and then accidentally stuttering because i almost spoke in japanese, even though i meant to speak english which is my literal native language. my brain is stupid 😭 atleast im starting to learn but speaking can get embarrassing since im from tbe south


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2 months ago

[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.

The cover of 光るが死んだ夏. It's a bright blue background with Hikaru in the center doing a peace sign at the viewer.
An early page of the manga 光るが死んだ夏 in which the two protagonists, Yoshiki and Hikaru, talk about the time Hikaru got lost in the woods. The two talk in dialect with each other.

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:

各話一覧|光が死んだ夏|ヤングエースUP公式サイト
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「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。

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4 years ago
Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Rainy Sunday afternoon


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