#Seitokai

[tokidokitokyo]

Seitokai July 2024 Japanese Bookclub

This month our winner is the manga 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (vol 1)!

Aya, a high schooler, is interested in a mysterious dude who works in a CD shop. However, the dude's true identity is Mitsuki – an inconspicuous classmate whom she has never spoken to - and also... a girl!

Join us for the July bookclub on the discord server!

What if I'm not confident in joining the bookclub because I have difficulty with vocab? - We've got that covered! For the Seitokai Bookclub, we collectively add to a shared vocab list so that a) no one feels ashamed of coming across a word that they didn't know, and b) you can access the vocab list at any time (yes, even when that book is no longer being read by the group, you still have access to the vocab lists). If you have any other questions about joining the bookclub or the discord server, feel free to send me a DM or an ask!

[nihongoseito]

japanese langblr "community"?

so maybe some other people have seen, but tumblr is rolling out a "communities" feature that i don't really understand but seems to be like a tumblr-internal, less complicated version of discord (??) (or maybe reddit????). i happen to be one of the users who they have offered early access to this feature to, so i could ostensibly create a community and try it out.

my question to everyone is, would you guys be interested in joining one of these communities if i made one? it seems like it could be fun, and idk how many people have been offered the beta version, so i thought i'd offer to everyone!!

ofc, a lot of people here are on the @onigiriforears's seitokai discord and might prefer to use that instead (i'm on it but i always forget to open discord 🙇🏻‍♀️ lol).

also, please let me know if this "community" happens to already exist....we probably wouldn't want to make a redundant one. anyway, what do you guys think???

[onigiriforears]

Seitokai Book Club Master List

Hi!

Sometimes, life gets the best of me and I'm not able to make my usual announcement post on here about what the current Seitokai book club read is. However, I do actually update it on the master Google Doc (links to associated vocab lists included), my Natively profile, and on the Seitokai instagram. These include the books from the start of the club in 2022 until present day.

If you're not particularly interested in the vocab lists or you hate accessing Google Docs bc it takes up Google Drive space, you can also see it on THIS NATIVELY LIST.

Or if you're thinking "ALL OF THOSE OPTIONS SUCK, I'M NOT LEAVING TUMBLR!," fair enough, I can't argue with that. You can always DM me, send an ask, or even @tokidokitokyo might make a post about it as well.

[seitokaisnihongo]

How to gain access to the Seitokai Discord server

Hi, friends! It's @onigiriforears (aka shay) here! I'm going to teach you how to gain access to our entire server. Step by step.

Step 1: The first message and channel that you'll see when you enter the server is in the #welcome channel. It'll look something like this:

Step 2: Please follow the directions and head over to the #rules channel. This channel is going to make sure that you understand the rules and guidelines of the server. It's imperative that you read it because even though this is a server focused on learning and free resource sharing, we're a community server that's trying to make sure that we don't violate Discord's guidelines. READ THEM IN ENTIRETY. If you're confused, feel free to message me on Discord (I'm the "shay" that's mentioned/pinged in your welcome message. I know you're in the server--I allow the server's notifications to push through my DND settings.) You could also message me or send me an ask @onigiriforears, but discord will get you a faster response.

Step 3: From there, please go to the #verify-yourself channel. In this channel, you'll be confirming that you didn't lie about actually reading the #rules. We (me, mods, and admin) can tell if you're lying based off of what #roles you have (or don't have). Why do we have it set up this way? We're trying to discourage trolls and bots from entering the server. Because, unfortunately, we have been raided and trolled more than once. Some specific moments would be when someone broke through our (at the time) low-key "pick a role" option and stole our roster list. They used it to find mutual servers that they shared with members and then harassed them in the mutual servers after being banned in ours. (That included stealing ppl's stuff in the dank meme bot and whatnot.) A second time would be when someone broke through our mandatory #roles and spammed channels and told everyone that people who can't get to N1 in a year are dumb <not a good look. He was promptly banned lmao.

Step 4: Head over to the #roles channel. IT'S SO IMPORTANT. This is where you'll have to choose the one role that's mandatory--every other role within that channel is optional besides the JLPT level roles. Why? Since we're a community server focused on resource sharing and engagement, we also make sure we pay attention to our server demographics. If we have a slew of N5 or beginning members, we make sure that we have a lot of N5-targeted events and resources available. For a while, we had no N2 and N1 members, so we were able to hold off on posting kanji for the levels for a bit while we focused on something else. Now, we have a good mixture.

Step 5: ENJOY THE SERVER! If you've properly followed steps 1-4, you'll have gained access to the entire server. If not, please message me or you might find yourself in server purgatory where we ping you to get your attention until you either ask for help or you follow through lmao--aka the #temp channel. It's a private channel that only admin and other purgatory-dwellers can see. Once you get your appropriate roles, the channel disappears for you.

If you're thinking, this is a pain of a way to get in: it was a pain for me to set it up like this, too. Trial and error over almost 2 years of being a server. I can say that after setting it up this way, we haven't had anymore trolls or bots enter.

[weeblmaodotcom]

Seitokai Yakuindomo is not a Shimoneta but got damn it was close , Meme by Weeblmao.com

[gomi-draws]

What a time to be a boy kisser

[kanamajo]

[rennebright]

え？正面？！ by Hood [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[a-frostitty-ninja]

「陸奥こまろ+照井有栖」 by piYO | Twitter

๑ Permission to reprint was given by the artist ✔.

[pastafroladays]

Me when I see couples holding hands

[tokidokitokyo]

Seitokai Discord・May English Bookclub

This month we are reading The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide!

Join us in the Seitokai Discord Server and grab the English bookclub role to get started!

The book club starts May 1st! There's also a Japanese book club if you'd like to join that!

[nihongoseito]

vocab from 気になってる人が男じゃなかった

as it seems in all likelihood that @onigiriforears さん's seitokai discord will be reading this manga for the july book club, i went ahead and *ahem* read all the free chapters on pixiv (i think comprising the first volume). here's all the vocab i wrote down!

nouns:

名札（なふだ） = name tag

同一人物（どういつじんぶつ） = the very same person

慣れ（なれ）っこ = being used to, accustomed to

気がかり（きがかり） = worry, concern

JK（ジェイケイ） = female high schooler (from 女子高生)

常連（じょうれん） = regular customer

校則（こうそく） = school rules

天（てん）パ = naturally curly hair (from 天然パーマ)

verbs:

口説く（くどく） = to persuade, coax; to seduce, hit on

かっこつけ�� = to show off, try and look good

よぎる = to go by, pass by, flash across

巻き返す（まきかえす） = to rally, recover

噛む（かむ） = to chew; to fumble one's words, stammer

adjectives:

気まずい（きまずい） = awkward, unpleasant, embarrassing

あざとい = sly, calculating; flirtatious

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

あたふたと = in a hurry, hastily

せっかく = with trouble, at great pains

ただでさえ = even at the best of times, as it is

expressions:

〜尽くめ（ずくめ） = entirely, nothing but

お近づき（ちかづき）になる = to become acquainted with

腰（こし）が抜ける（ぬける） = to be unable to stand, weak in the knees; to be dumbfounded

[onigiriforears]

Sept. 2024 Seitokai NOVEL Book Club | 君は月夜に光り輝く

Starting in Sept. 2024, the Seitokai Book Club is splitting into two (2)--a manga book club and a novel book club. We've decided to do this to better service our members.

After a tough vote and a tie-breaker, our inaugural Japanese Novel read for Sept. 2024 is 君は月夜に光り輝く. This book follows two classmates, one of which is diagnosed with a terminal illness that causes her skin to glow under the moonlight. She glows brighter as her time of death nears. This book has currently been graded at an upper intermediate/N2 level on Natively.

Come join us in the discord server! We can't wait to see you.

Get some more info below:

What if I've never read a book in Japanese yet? I'm not confident in my skills. That's fine! Not only do we ALWAYS have a group vocab sheet that we collectively (and anonymously) add to, but we have ongoing discussions about whatever book we're reading. That means you're free to ask questions, send screenshots, rant about a character or anything like that. You'll definitely find me asking about certain grammar points or if using a particular set of kanji for a word changes the nuance in a particular sentence.

What's the goal of your bookclub? Well, we're interested in fostering confidence in reading in your target language without feeling that you have no one to turn to. Our server has people of all levels of fluency, meaning that there's always someone who can answer your question. And if we can't, we have people we can reach out to ask. We won't leave you hanging!

You don't seem to choose books I'm interested in--how can I change that? Well, we take suggestions and vote as a bookclub for what we'll be reading next. If your book doesn't win the first time you submit it, try try again! A lot of our books have been suggested more than once before finally winning. Don't be discouraged! And now that we have two Japanese book clubs, you don't have to worry about your novel suggestions competing against manga suggestions.

I can't afford a copy of the book. Message me on here, discord, or instagram. Or send a message in the bookclub channel of the server saying that you need a copy. Someone will help. We're aware that Japanese learning resources are not available or readily accessible in multiple areas around the world. We all want to help each other thrive at meet out target language goals.

More questions that I didn't answer here? Message me on here, discord, or instagram! Or @tokidokitokyo!

Hope to see you there! Server | Studygram | Server Instagram

You might see some familiar names from tumblr in the server 😉🤗 We don't bite and you can watch in live time as we scream in agony over book characters, obscure kanji, and plot holes in any given book that we're reading.

[hotwaterandmilk]

Title: Shikanai Seitokai Artist: Morie Satoshi Publication: Hana to Yume #1 (01/2017) Details: Hanayume All Star Date Calendar 2017 (December) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[ilovecats4ever]

[gomi-draws]

Otori-tan! 🫣💚