Bookworm Junior Bunko
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The Junior Bunko are basically the original books split up into more volumes to make for easier consumption by younger readers. The only "new" content are the pictures and 4komas, which are what I'm asking for to get inserted into the ebooks.
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@zwabbit Gotcha. I support this. I too would like this additional content inserted into the ebook releases.
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....I mean, I can kind of see it for some big omnibus print edition... but it's a long shot.
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@zwabbit The biggest thing by far which would make it easier for younger readers is the furigana. The main Bookworm books actually have exceedingly small amounts of furigana, almost none actually, which would make it very hard for children to read. Full furigana is pretty crucial to make it even possible for JP kids to be capable of reading the words on the page in a story like Bookworm.
(This has absolutely no meaning or impact to Western readers though.)
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@Quof said in Bookworm Junior Bunko:
(This has absolutely no meaning or impact to Western readers though.)
That's a lie! I was going to register on that website where bookworm was born, one of the obligatory questions was the furigana... I knew not what to put in there... so I bailed
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@Quof That actually would make the junior bunkos good for western readers that want to practice their Japanese as well, methinks.
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@zwabbit I'm kind of speaking with the implication that if you're reading the actual Japanese books I'm not thinking of you as a "Western reader" anymore.... By "Western reader" I just mean someone reading the TL'd books...
But yeah, if you want to learn JP through Bookworm then the Junior bunko would be a nice crutch until you finish Part 1 and have your support net ripped away from you and have to suffer through the hard 90% rest of the series.
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@Quof Depends on if TO Books can publish junior bunkos for the next volumes faster than us amateurs can make our way through Part 1. :D But your point about reader categories is taken.
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@Quof I legit had not noticed that....
Though opening up a random chapter, I'm now curious what the criteria for a word to have furigana is... I mean, 大袈裟? ...I guess because it's usually written 大げさ maybe? But 兄妹? 被る? Really?
Edit: Not actually a question for you quof, just observing/complaining :P
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@Gamen To my understanding there is no mystery greater than what logic is used for giving different words furigana. Every editor/writer/etc has their own internal logic and methods. I know some that give furigana to every single non-jouyou kanji no matter how common they might be, for example. It's really for the best if you just don't question why a word has furigana. You'll go crazy eventually.
(Too late I replied)
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@Quof Well, thanks for your insight anyway :P ....Probably just as well I switched majors to CompSci.
