@Zhou I mean there are cases of store exclusives in the West and of certain editions or box sets of books coming with special additional material (I unfortunately owned all the Series 1 Monogatari LNs before I learned about the box set), but I can’t think of anything like this I've encountered...
@lazyoldman The latin alphabet is largely derived from Phonecian which also had a large influence on Hebrew, Greek, and other alphabets, which is why the first letter of Hebrew is aleph and in Greek it's alpha. A lot of seemingly disparate languages are interconnected at their core
@Catfishlover339 It's ongoing, next full chapter releases December 18th, and 28 is out but not translated.
Update: I translated it and I'm about to clean/redraw/typeset it
@Jenst In later chapters it seems like a lot of the journal is scribbles and notes that don't make sense removed from their context, so I don't think he's stupid for not trying to read it through.
@KuroeNekumi @Chiakoi Yeah I see that now. Although there are a number of cases of single non-loan words being written with both katakana and hiragana in this manga, even in the name there's ナメる.
Another thing on the topic of car ownership for teens in Japan, I found this Chiebukuro thread (linked) where a Japanese person is confused by the fact that American teens have cars in movies
This is the start of a part time job arc which goes until chapter 40 (interrupted by a number of non-chapterd that are still in the chapter numbering.) The credits page image is from Paper Planes, the song with the "all I want to do is."