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According to animebytes, the [Exiled-Destiny] release has the DVD japanese subs, but I'm pretty sure this is a mistagging, otherwise it would have an English track in there as well.

Here is a link if you wanna try

There is also a download at itazuraneko, but it also has only 3 episodes, the same as kitsunekko. No luck.

https://nyaa.si/view/1044354 is a list of pretimed subs for specific releases of lots of shows, but it only goes up to like 2017 or something.

for everything else you just have to use kitsuneko and hope for the best. you can get plugins for mpv that allow you to press keys to manually retime subs on the fly. this will fix small problems, like the eyecatch causing a desync problem. animebook.github.io is a web-based media played that also allows for manual retimings on the fly. you could try your luck with retiming software like alass, but i found that to be pretty garbage. not only is it convoluted and annoying to use, i've found that it really doesn't work very well at all.

though to be honest the best solution is to use netflix with a japanese vpn when possible because those subs are just perfect. netflix combined with language learning with netflix on a japanese vpn offers you the highest quality and a surprisingly large catalog of content.

a friend sent this to me a while ago: it’s a rom of a hunter x hunter game in japanese for your computer. rpg style so a good amount of dialogue/words https://romsmania.cc/roms/gameboy-advance/hunter-x-hunter-minna-tomodachi-daisakusen-cezar-224392

Glad to hear it! So long as the version in the repos work then just continue to use that.

That said if you run into any other issues I would consider trying 2.1.15. Anki has old versions here:

https://apps.ankiweb.net/downloads/archive/

Either way having anki out of date really shouldn't be that big of a deal. It's not like it's a web browser. You just won't be getting any of the new features that are released. Seeing as how most of the spiffy stuff you would want are addons anyways that probably isn't much of an issue.

Drama? I just finished watching the classic 電車男 as all the shows that were airing last year have ended. You can find airing Drama on Tver.com with a vpn or uploaded to nyaa.si a few days later.

What about Filthy Frank makes you not want to watch anime?

https://nyaa.si/view/1044354

has pretimed subs for hundreds of shows. if you use that in combination with https://animebook.github.io it actually works really well. i haven't gotten around to using yoga's new extension yet, but it works fine with yomichan. it may even work with yoga's extension

With the official product not available, I feel like your best bet is to make one yourself. You can find lists of RTK kanjis online and use word or publisher or sth to make a poster, then print it out in multiple sheets (eg using rasterbator )

If you don't mind quality, you can even use the preview image that white rabbit press has in rasterbator (looks pretty bad though, may as well just print that image in 1 A4 sheet)

Buy (or find somewhere in the internet) RTK book. Look through pages up until your current kanji and try to remember the meaning of primitives.

Then you can make your stories for already learnt kanji during your review session.

You can also use https://kanji.koohii.com/ for inspiration.

I'm assuming you're using aegis sub, The sub timer in subs2srs (tools > Subs re-timer) is far more effectient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6EOLU8QW0 I've used this one on a few occasions to batch retime shows like One piece for a few hundred episodes and it works pretty well too.

as for the retimed pack https://nyaa.si/view/1044354 this torrent has a ton of shows someones already retimed

If you don't have it on pc I suggest getting it there. Game to text will make lookups super easy just draw a box around text and it'll give you the text so you can look it up elsewhere. You might also be able to use it if you use ps4/5 remote play and just use game to text on that

Otherwise there's an android app that essentially does the same but with your phones camera. For it to be useful at all though you'll want to buy premium https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peace.TextScanner

Otherwise don't worry too much l. Keep the game in Japanese and learn through repetition. If it's too hard that's a hint it might be above your level and to search out an easier game. Video games and vns are quite long so finding ones with more comprehensable input makes the experience a lot better.

I recommend trails in the sky and xenogears since they're both fairly easy and good games to boot. Atelier is pretty easy dialog wise but it can be pretty hard crafting when you don't know 100% what it's going to do but with a guide or let's play its probably the easiest game I've encountered in Japanese

Don't worry about not playing the exact game you want you'll always be able to revisit it as you improve

Sorry to necro your reply here, but thought I would point this out. Netflix blacklists VPNs for the most part, because it wants content to remain region-specific.

Most VPN servers are noted, so only a couple still work. SoftEther usually works because it's people and schools hosting their own, but Mullvad for example will likely not.

https://www.amazon.ca/Frequency-Dictionary-Japanese-Yukio-Tono/dp/0415610133/

there is a deck with audio built around it.

Good idea, i personally just installed an APP from the Google Play Store and set it to 15 mins break, 5 mins studying ( at Kanji #2201 now ) so i learn as many Kanji as i can in those 5 minutes, which usually ranges from 4-6 Kanji depending on the "difficulty" of imagining the story, or even making up one myself and then take another 15 minute break. This way i can easily learn 50-80 Kanji / Day without getting burnout... So happy when i'll finish RRTK3

3k Kanji total...is seriously exhausting in the long run

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kempmobil.timer&hl=en_US&gl=US

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Name of the App: Timebox Timer

Is free, and works as intended.

Also, if you have an android phone, you might wanna use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jisho.japanese.english.dictionary

It provides a camera capture and translation function.

Akebi is an android dictionary app that has Ankidroid exporting. So you can create a card in one click that has the word (+ furigana) on the front and definitions on the back. Unfortunatly it doesn't support word audio but it should still help you speed up the process.

I use NordVPN. Costs a bit, but it's definitely been worth it considering the amount of content I can access.
If you don't want to pay, maybe just keep trying different free VPNs until you find one that works.

For Japanese Netflix I've found better to use a VPN service that provides fixed IPs, that way they can't really tell if you're a VPN user. They're often quite expensive though.

I got a streaming bundle for Torguard a while back and it has been working wonderfully ever since, they provide 2 fixed IPs in Japan/UK/US (at least that was the case when I subscribed). Also, they'll change your IP if it gets blocked somehow.

You need to install the same fonts on your phone and your PC, then set them in the css. Your android phone should be using Noto Sans JP. Install it on Windows, and add "font-family: Noto Sans JP;" in the ".card { ... }" css styling block in Anki.

I think if you have to do a lot of custom study sessions in anki, if that's what you are talking about. Then i think you are probably not making good enough stories in your head for the kanji. Try to read the preface of RTK1 again or check with https://kanji.koohii.com/ if you really cannot come up with vivid picture evoking stories.

I think its normal for the stories to fade over time, but not after 4 days. I did RTK about 6 months ago and some good stories still come to mind like on the day i made them, others not so much. But as others have said it's not really necessary to know every single one, its just more of a way to get familiar with kanji to recognize them easier in the future.

An Introduction To Japanese Grammar And Communication Strategies is another good book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4789013383/

It starts with basic grammar and goes to intermediate, and has a lot of good sentences.

If you don't you should try to get an account on AvistaZ. It's invite only but they open registration sometimes for free.

There's some episodes on Nyaa too.

download taiga, you're getting a program taht can organize your watched anime and download anime for you automatically

edit: it downloads raw anime from a bunch of different websites, nyaa.si included
super convenient

NordVPN has been a hassle for me lately as well but thankfully it still works with enough trial and error. Switching through servers and restarting my chrome usually does the trick, but it’s def not worth paying for anymore tbh unless this gets fixed up... I’ve heard Netflix has been cracking down on a lot of VPNs lately too >_>

you can also use a program called Calibre if it's helpful at all, it's just an ebook managemant software, I use it to store ebooks of all filetypes on my computer and can read it directly from there. and once you make the jump to an ereader you can transfer them back and forth from the same program.

Sure! I used Gimp to create the image. I have several layers:

• The grainy background with the foggy rays of light.
• The Kanji themselves, in their brighter rendition.
• A mask layer over the kanji to darken the ones I haven't learned yet.

Whenever I learn a kanji, I erase the part of the mask that's over it.

I got the list of kanji in text form from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/1a126a/all_2200_kanji_from_heisigs_remembering_the_kanji/

So creating the kanji layer itself was just a matter of choosing a font, size, and getting the spacing to look nice.

You can use Anki to solidify your kana if you want. Personally, I used this deck (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1632090287) after I went through Heisig's Remembering the Kana book (https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5B775B8A1AED6CCF77715EEA04F84F90). The deck includes not only the hiragana and the katakana but also the dipthongs made by combing two letters (e.g. きょう). The regular settings on the deck should work just fine for now. It includes both production and recognition so you don't have to mess around with creating new card types.

If for some reason, the manga doesn't exist on there and you've got it from nyaa or something, you can still read it by transferring the files to your phone. See https://tachiyomi.org/help/guides/reading-local-manga/.

I corrected the code, now it works without lynx, so you can run it on Windows as well. You need win-bash, it's a small archive with a bunch of linux binaries compiled for the windows, you can download it here: http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/ and run script with windows commandline and these tools.

It says there is a problem with the sub file, did you open it in Aegisub and save it again, maybe as an .ass file?

Did you try to download the sub again? If not try than and if that doesn't work you can try to use this addon, which does similar things.

Who knows. Didn’t even know there was an mpv Android lol. By the way, if you like watching stuff on your phone to immerse without mining, you could check out something like emby https://emby.media I don’t use it, but I know some people who do and they like it. Just something to consider I guess

>1000 lazy kanji That sounds too low imo. Probably the best thing to do what works for you, taking best parts from every method! I broke one of the biggest rules- using English subs(Until 4000 sentences or so)> My reason was that I was learning crap ton of sentences each day (50-60+) so I used anime as a break time. But recently I can understand most of what I come across- and even find English subs annoying- since the translation isn't 100% accurate.

I think full furigana (even in the front) would be fine as you after 1-2k sentences you would barely be needed. The only thing I would recommend you to strictly follow is to mine in context (using material you WANT to learn)

You can also try this way of learning Kanji (the way I do it now- after completing 2200 lazy). Come across a new kanji eg.悲 Go to https://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/(k) k being the kanji you have come across So it would be https://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/悲 Favorite 2-3 mnemonic stories (usually too lazy to make my own), Click on Add Card (at the top right side)

Koohi has their own SRS , so you don't even have to add it into Anki. I have been doing this for the 300ish new kanji I have come across and it has worked pretty well for me. I have gotten used to quickly going New tab-> Koohi> Unknown kanji > Add card. I usually get the kanji down in 30-45secs The biggest merit of this I believe is that you don't have to use the boring deck and the kanji you come across will be in context while immersion.

https://www.lingq.com/ja/learn-japanese-online/courses/580212/konosu-qing-rashiishi-jie-nizhu-fu-wo-3586169/

But it'll take ~5-6 months to get to it. Start with something simple like ema and rasana's letters and work your way up.

The reason is the fonts used in the deck.

More info here:

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/5780

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/5403

It would be nice of someone generated images from the kanji to use, however it would probably look bad at different resolutions etc.

Just do it on PC or back out to the deck list (and sync?) every few cards.

This is amazing! I've been using nyaa.si for everything and it has lots of stuff so it is the primary source. However, this drive may have more since some of torrents are without seeds.

In case you didn't know about this site yet:

It' s probably the most used torrent site for anything anime/manga related.

Just try searching in any RAW category.

Todai App is a good resource for reading news.

Android

iOS

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peace.TextScanner

I just take a Pic w/ this and it gives me text and I share it to my dictionary. Pretty good for making cards but kind of a pain for normal lookups

I read exclusively on my laptop. The only immersion I do on my phone is watch YouTube or Netflix (PrivateVPN has an app so you can access JPN Netflix).

On my laptop I use Yomichan to look up most things, Migaku Dictionary also.

I use the following dictionaries:

スーパー大辞林

新明解国語辞典

明鏡国語辞典

広辞苑

大辞泉

NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典　(I also have a physical copy of this one for all the pitch accent rules in the back of the book)

Glad I could help!

Japanese screenplays are definitely hard to track down, but there are some you can find on Amazon Jp if you don't mind paying a bit. Here is a collection of screenplays for some of Kurosawa's films as an example.

If you have an android phone whit a decent camrea I reccomend this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peace.TextScanner

You snap a Pic and it gives you text on your phone and you can then share the text to takoboto with a button press. Its 5 dollars for unlimited scans and it's pretty accurate. Makes it easy to have a single app for most of your lookups

You can use VPN Gate for free region spoofing. I basically watch all of my Japanese content with sub on Netflix. Maybe you use the VPN on your phone and connect it to your TV. Here's the link to set it up for iOS.

I'm not happy about the Netflix situation either, but my understanding is that this limitation is due to how Japanese companies license their content.

Late last year, I purchased a 2-year contract with NordVPN for $89. It works out to less than $4 a month, so I honestly can't complain.

And if SoftEther is too complicated, WindScribe lets you just get the Windflix JP server for $3/mo which I've never had a problem with. Maybe SoftEther is easy to use, I haven't tried it but I'm kind of a goof and have difficulties with that kind of stuff. Also I use Chromium exclusively for Netflix with the Windscribe browser extension, so that way I don't have to use a Japanese IP for my regular stuff on Chrome/my computer as a whole. It works out really well for me.

I mean there's only so many ways words conjugate so once you figure that out by looking up enough words it's not that hard. As for readings I just wait until I can remember the reading and meaning once even if it was a guess and plug it into anki since those are going to be the ones I'm seeing frequently or the ones that are becoming important to know as well as the easiest to remember long term and it snowballs from there

For tools I just use a normal dictionary along with an app that uses my phones camrea and ocrs whatever I snap a picture of and I throw that into my dictionary. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peace.TextScanner) it's pretty handy since I can use it for most anything, visual novels, rpgs, Manga etc.

Hello! I know it's late but I have both ExpressVPN and NordVPN. They both work on Netflix, so what I want you to do is to always open Netflix on an incognito tab, because that way Netflix doesn't save cookies. Don't go straight to , try googling Netflix first then check if the search results are in Japanese and you are good to go.

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For NordVPN, you gotta always check the language of the search results first because sometimes it is in a different region regardless of where you're connected to.

I will be commenting on Kindle Paperwhite. For novels it is great, for manga you can read but it will be smaller, not so great. PDFs will be shit, as you have to scroll, so academic books should be avoided.

The built in dictionary JP-JP is ok, JP-EN lacks a lot of words. I use this cheap dictionary as a replacement, which improves the experience a lot. As you have a built in dictionary, you can cheat and read things above your level, which is great value compared to books in general.

Japan Amazon store has basically everything you would want, for a price. I registered with my Japan address but my credit card is not from Japan. You have to register your Kindle with a different account from US Amazon, I am not sure if VPNs are needed, as I only used it inside Japan.

Prices are not much different than paperbacks, and can not compete with used books (i.e. bookoff). Outside of Japan it should be a great deal, as you can avoid shipping costs and have basically instant access to content.

Might not look that comfortable but they are, I have had many headphones and earbuds and these are in my opinion the best bang for your buck, also available from EU Amazon.

I know some people watch the 1st season of terrace house by downloading english subs and somehow getting them to work on netflix. Can probably find something on how to do it in the terracehouse subreddit.

Subs in netflix are largely region based. You can get lots of japanese subs on Japan servers. NordVPN works.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AB%E3%83%87%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC/dp/4872179811

I enjoyed this alot (in english) https://www.amazon.co.jp/Tokyo-Vice-Jake-Adelstein/dp/1849014647/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&dchild=1&keywords=jake+adelstein&qid=1596463185&sr=8-1

Not sure if my link is to the japanese version but find that

If you're reading manga for a younger audience, I can highly recommend an elementary school dictionary. (I personally like Benesse's)

But if you're reading things that have a wider vocabulary, electronic dictionaries are the way to go.

It might also be advantageous to win a teacher or counselor or librarian's understanding of what you're doing and why. It's for your own good but you're kinda bending the rules and it may be helpful to get some backup.

Here is a good memory book, I personally used it and helped me to memorize words and create better mnemonics: Amazon

As I said, mnemonics are your best friends.

The best translation is the 『聖書 新改訳2017』

Here's an Amazon Japan link to it:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%96%B0%E6%94%B9%E8%A8%B32017-%E5%B0%8F%E5%9E%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E7%89%88-%E5%BC%95%E7%85%A7%E3%83%BB%E6%B3%A8%E4%BB%98-NBI-30-%E3%81%84%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A1%E3%81%AE%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%...