Ordered a copy of the book since I’m a fan of physical books, so that should be here well before the 28th. Looking forward to this!
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on learnnatively it’s tagged “full furigana” but the amazon etc “previews” don’t have furigana.
does anyone if there’s actually a full furigana version or if it’s mistagged?
My kanji is still too bad to even try reading a book without it.
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It’s an old book, there are tons of versions. The one I have has a normal amount of furigana, similar to a shonen manga.
福音館書店 seems to be aimed at school kids so perfect for lang learners. For example this version has furigana 
Hope this helps!
That’s the copy I bought! Supposedly it has more furigana than the version by the other publishing house.
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oh no you just made me realise I do not have the furigana copy…
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FYI for others - I think the edition on Bookwalker is the one without furigana, so if that’s a problem, maybe look elsewhere. 
… i grabbed the one with the prettiest cover on Amazon, hope it does include furigana 
I’m in! I’m on vacation until the 29th so I guess I’ll be starting slightly late.
Where is the group happening? In this thread?
I’ll be making a new thread in the Book Club category in the next few days! Will post a link to it here once it’s up.
Edit: Looking at the poll, it seems like most people are wanting to do 10 pages a week. For people that haven’t voted yet, please see the poll posted earlier in this thread!
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Since there seem to be several versions of the book out there, it would help if you could do something like share the first and last sentence of the 10 pages for the week.
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Finally bought it! I’ll have a lil time to go through any weird words that may appear in the vocab decks 
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My plan was to duplicate the really big vocab deck and just go through and delete everything I already knew, but Bunpro doesn’t seem to like me trying to clone a huge deck lol
Out of curiosity, what version of the book do most people have?
Looking it up online, it seems the 角川 (Kadokawa) version is the easiest to get. I’ll be using the 福音館書店 (Fukuinkan Shoten) version, but wanted to check to see others are using!
I use the ebook Kadokawa Bunko version from Bookwalker.
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Kadokawa caught my eye at bookoff so that’s the one i own
Would be faster to read the other version with furigana but i don’t want to go to book jail 
…i am thus resisting the urge to shop around 
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Mine is the Kadokawa Bunko off Bookwalker as well
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Kadokawa bunko paperback. For comparison:
- the first sentence on page 7 is the title of chapter 1, お話のはじまり
- the last sentence on page 16 is 「ねえ、ジジ、あれを見てみようか、ちょっとだけ。かあさんいないから」
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I have the Fukuinkan Shoten version!
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Hi all!
Happy holidays 
Here’s the link to the book club thread, for those who are participating: 魔女の宅急便 Book Club - December 2025
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