James Lez Read

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James Lez Read is a character in Ready, Set, Read! who naturally takes up a third of the show, before a scene bookends it. He has a natural hobby of finding, writing, and remembering words with a certain topic.

Appearance
James Lez Read has exactly the same facial features as other characters Dungca plays,except for his glasses. He is known for his signature red plaid overcoat and a white shirt with an orange outline. He has brown pants and shoes. He wore jogging attire in the J-related episode (which also turned out to be the debut of Lady Cabbage (story)), and a spacesuit in Places in the Community.

Personality
James is a very hyperactive and friendly person, greatly contrasting the other characters Dungca plays. finding amazement and wonder over anything he can find. According to him, words are everywhere, so his mundane trips to the park are just as exciting as finding moon rocks with R in them. He also has another level of interactivity, given that he encourages the viewers to identify words and pictures with certain letters. For example, in the Para, the Brave and Beautiful quintilogy, he asks them to find words with the appropriate sounds 'ee', 'ea', etc.

Not all of his character is one-note: He had distress over G-related blurry pictures in New Words, and the shocking appearance of the A's frightened him in Finger Family Song. His meditation activities calmed him down in Naming Words.

Background
Until New Words, James is almost as infrequent as Nene in the first episodes of the show, with more focus on Lino and Captain Verboom. His first appearance was in Rhymning Words, where he sings the ABC's. Adventures centered around the vowels, including A (Family Finger Song), the jungle-treaded E's (Greetings and Leave-takings), inchwormed-filled I's (Sentences and Phrases), and the sandy O's (Being Polite). Consonants like D and F were mentioned in Polite Expressions: Sorry and Thank You and Simple Sentences.

Starting from New Words, he has a consecutive streak at the end, but most episodes take place at his house, unlike him showcasing karate skills in Simple Sentences (Part 2). He even had a different wallpaper for the L-related Asking Permission.

Throughout the Para quintilogy (unless you count the prologue), he talks about letters combined together that make new sounds. He starts with 'ea', used for words like 'near' and 'fear'. The same happens with 'ee', 'ear', and 'eer'. In the final episode, he reviews all the sounds mentioned. After that, he opens up the H-Store, full of stuff containing the letter H. What happened to the store after his tenure is uncertain.

In the lieu of typhoon and graph-related episodes, most of his episodes take place in his house. Starting with Counting Syllables and ending with Making Graphs, Tables, and Pictographs, he talks about silent letters, or letters that directly proceed after another, making them unpronounceable. He starts with 'kn', then 'wr', then 'gn'. He even visits a cave and sings a song for one event.

He continues with the letter M, known for 'milk' and 'broom'. He fittingly connects it with N, known for 'known'. Skipping O, he continues with Q in Asking and Telling Sentences. He then goes to space with two living R's in Places in the Community, searching for rocks with the letter R in them. The letter P has no individual episode until Cause and Effect (Part 2). For Naming Words, the Y episode is in a plateau.

After that, he returns to the topic of verbal sounds, only this time, he runs down the long and short vowel chords. He focuses on the long A's in Predicting the Ending, and the long E's in Naming Words (Part 2).

For late June-early July episodes, he reverted back to consonant sounds, with episodes regarding letters like T, V, and W. All of them take place at his house, except for T (Peles' Tomatoes).

Trivia

 * He is the one of the few characters to refer to himself with his full name, since Chef Ling prefers his nickname and Lolo Buloto is simply called 'lolo'.
 * Most episodes take place in their own canon, except for two: In 'Unlocking of Difficult Words and Phrases', he gets the book Sampung Magkakaibigan, the book that Joji and his friends were about to read. It is never explained how, since he was in the beach at that time. The next episode has Joji with the book once more, probably due to him returning it.
 * Ogot, Cathy, Marj, and Nene also appear in his alphabet song.
 * The second instance was where James heard about events relative to families, and brought a capital and small A to prove that even letters are families.
 * Most episodes that contain Lino, for the most part, do not have James, partl due to time constraints. This rule was later broken as the episodes progressed, with Lino leaving sporadically here and there.
 * In early episodes, he starts with "Yo, what's up, James Lez Read here, and...' but later episodes use "Hey there, James Lez Read here, and...". He later reverted back to his original saying.
 * Sometimes, he gives the viewer another chance in his games, to varying degrees of helpfulness.