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Very approachable slice of life novel with likeable characters
This was my first novel in japanese. Considered myself at a ~N4 level, and it took me about 50 days to finish, looking up everything I didn’t recognize (made a 800 words deck (!) and learned a hundred new kanji). This could have been a chore, but the pleasant tone and characters meant I never got close to giving up.
Outside of my limited vocabulary, the main difficulty was understanding the longer sentences (textboooks don’t prep you for this). Understanding the vocab and the grammar isn’t always enough when, reaching the end of a sentence, you have already forgotten the beginning. But this is good training, forcing you to read carefully and intently.
A great first read experience I’d recommend.