But how do we learn Japanese by reading manga? Years ago I would read English stuff although I didn't understand it, not even the grammar or the words. Then I would just look up the grammar and the words and somehow understand it, but I just can't do the same with Japanese for some reason. My native language has almost %90 the same grammar with Japanese but I can't find much material on internet to learn grammar
I've been reading my first Manga in Japanese (Takagi-san) these past couple weeks and it's such a magic journey. It's hard at times but not too frustrating, and it's so rewarding when in some chapters I'm able to read it all without looking at the dictionary. I'll check the others out as well, thanks for the recommendations, Yuta.
Yotsubato is another great one I started with in my first year. Because Yotsuba is constantly shown as speaking in Hiragana. But the adults do speak with Kanji. It was a good way to gain confidence with reading when my kanji count was still below 100
@@CorralSummer Of the ones I'm able to write from memory, know every stroke, and know most or all of the readings of... maybe a little over 300. There's another 200-250 or so that I'm iffy on, maybe I know them in a specific word, and I can read them one way but not the other 5 ways, or I don't remember all the strokes, but i can recognize it sometimes still, etc. I recommend Kanji Look And Learn from the same company that made Genki. there's a little over 500 kanji in there, and I still got maybe 150 left It can teach me. That, mixed with flash cards and reading manga, has helped with my count a lot, even though I have not been studying my Grammar very much for the last year. I just read a lot. I've stopped studying actively and switched to a more input based approach lately, so when I come across something naturally I look it up then and try to incorporate it at that time.
Did you know,,, Doraemon has secretly nazi imagery and profilg of nazis in Indonesia?? Also it's 13 years old?? And the country has laws from King Michael Coommodation to keep some hollywood movies playing in Indonesia?? You cannot ban movies because King Michael If you already have seen, do not be surprised,,
I'm reading Yuru Yuri, I learned how to address to another person, also is easy to read and is very funny!, I learned Kanji like 赤, 川, 見, 子, 可愛い, 先輩,学生, 愛,恋,顔, 雨, 最高,布団,次, and many others!
One key point not mentioned is repetition. You want to choose a manga that you personally enjoy, so that you enjoy reading the same manga over and over again. Set aside some time, say one hour each day, to read. For example, you could set aside one hour to read manga every day after waking up, or an hour before going to sleep. It takes time for the brain to process new information and move that information from short-term memory to long-term memory. If you try to rush, there's a good chance you will forget many of the vocabulary you learned in a previous volume. When you read the manga for the first time, you will find new vocabulary and expressions. Write them on a flash card or note and keep on reading. Once you're done reading, try reading it again, only checking your flashcard/notes as needed. Maybe you only remember 10% at this point and that's fine. As you keep re-reading, you will notice that you'll start to remember more and more, and at some point you will be able to read the entire volume without having to check your notes!
Great point. I plan on going with Satori Reader pretty soon. Almost done with Genki 1 (took me about 8 months. It may be long, but I really wanted it to stick and I have a class in college anyways lol) I’m also doing WaniKani and in between everything I always try to write kanji I tend to forget (or sometimes want to remember more.) I also write a lot of good grammar points from Genki. This method works for me lol
Exactly this but use a spaced repetition program (anki) to make flashcards instead of doing it manually. That way an algorithm tells you to review words instead of you just guessing if you should (plus it's easier to make virtual flash cards than physical ones)
*regarding the first manga* the english title is: "one week friends" (i dont know if this is correct translation or not) i've watched the first couple of episodes from the anime, it doesn't seem bad. regarding the manga format, in english it's called 4koma personally i'm not a big fan of this format and it seems quite restrictive compared to the regular format where manga artists can use the whole page space however they like *regarding the third manga* the english title is: *"Tsurezure Children"* - I've seen the whole anime, it's really good! there are so many different couples with different stories! I highly recommend it! (but again 4koma format is not for me :D) *takagi is a classic!* In the english language community, colloquially, the genre is called "fluff" because of the cute and heartwarming scenes between the main characters. A very similar type of manga is *"Kubo-san won't let me be invisible"* with original title: 久保さんは僕〈モブ〉を許さない so if you have already seen takagi-san you can check this one out next, it's very similar and very cute too (there is no anime yet, tho) *Another title* from Takagi-san's author Yamamoto, Souichirou (山本 崇一朗) is *Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru* or それでも歩は寄せてくる this one is also very nice and it's actually getting an anime in July this year! so if you wanna be ahead of the curve, you can check it out early! The story is again about two classmates but their relationship is different from takagi and nishikata's I hope you enjoy these recommendations!
Soredemo Ayumu has to be one of my favorites. I can also recommend one called Siscon Ani to Brocon Imouto ga Shoujiki ni Nattara if you like "these type of manga". But I can expect people just reading the premise and getting disgusted, understandably so.
4-koma and slice of life mangas are definitely great for studying. I've been reading Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and Wotakoi to learn kanji and vocabularies regarding otaku culture and drawing. Plus those two are my favorite romcom series. The lightheartedness of the slice-of-life genre and format of a 4-koma makes reading it in a different language really great for studying. It's comparable to reading fun children stories when you're starting to learn your native language as a child compared to going straight to Shounen/Seinen/Action/Fantasy mangas with deeper plot.
I'm currently using a Japanese translation of Stephen King's IT to study! I own the English translation and have read it multiple times, so I can easily cross-reference, and I'm also using a Kanji dictionary to identify and define any Kanji I don't recognize. It's been very effective, so far!
Ohh, it's nice that you mentioned Meitantei Conan! It's my favourite series! I've been reading the manga in English but I've seen some Japanese screenshots of the manga here and there, so I've been curious. (Also I've been trying to learn Japanese so thanks for providing a link to it as well 😁)
I have the first book of よつばと！in Japanese because it was recommended for learning. I haven't looked at it for a while but I had a little trouble right away with it because words would come up that I couldn't find in the dictionary. I'll have to try it again.
* mention of Conan * THIS, absolutely! I read and watched so, so much Conan while trying to learn. The manga is awesome because it travels all around Japan and sometimes the world, dropping cool new vocabulary for various jobs, special hobbies, Japan culture. It's great. Also I know about 50 different terms for crime and murder, so that's a thing. I doubt things like 死亡推定時刻 ever comes up in casual conversation, like ever, but damned if I ever forget what it means. Lol.
yuta do a video about your favourite anime or manga that doesn’t necessarily have to do with anything about learning japanese just simply your favourite mangas
One week friends is very very beginner friendly :D The anime is really good too and they speak really clearly. Nichijou and Yotsubato are very popular choices for first manga too!
Non-Non Biyori is also reccomended for entertain yourself + learn Japanese. Their (all characters) convo are mostly basic and easy to learn, specially Hotaru that always speak in polite level to her friends (she always end her sectence with "desu", or "desuka" for question). Slow paced Slice Of Life & Iyashikei anime are good stuff...
I still remember my early days of learning Japanese. Using Urusei Yatsura mangas I could get my hands on. Words like 絶交 (Shinobu breaks up with Ataru), 卑怯 (Ataru learns that Lamu can fly), 研究不足 (だっちゃ!) (her answer to Ataru's complain), 母船 (mothership), 日没 (another day passes without Ataru catching Lamu). Also words like 角,一張羅, 宇宙人... Once imprinted by the action I'll never forget them and that's how mangas are great for learning.
名探偵コナン！I've been reading it since 2006, and still love it, so that was a nice surprise! I actually impulse bought a collection of the first 30 volumes in Japanese years ago well before I learned any Japanese myself (teenage me was crazy haha) so maybe I'll dig them out of storage and give them a try now!
the first manga i read was gotoubun no hanayome, its an shounen therefore it has furigana and the conversations are not that hard to read once you get used to
When my boyfriend went to Japan to be an ALT he picked up a few volumes of Yotsuba&! to practice his Japanese on since the Japanese in it is really simple. 😁
@@arrtvyewer3368 oh my bad I was assuming they had gone to teach English so those were the first words which came to mind which would fit those letters.
Little bit surprised you didn't recommend よつばと！ considering how popular it is and how it'll never get an anime adaptation as long as あずま先生 is alive. That's the one I started with and it never felt difficult. Lots of manga aimed at children will work though.
I'm reading 「とめはねっ！」 but it's a little bit difficult since it has very little furigana, and they talk about the history of calligraphy and technique - which flies right over my head at times 😉 But it's very fun and sweet! I am curious if anyone know how "difficult" it is, considering theme and language use. I mean, if it's suitable for elementary kids, high school or even older kids 🤔
Do you know of a way to access this content in the US? I haven’t been able to get Japanese manga on kindle with a US Amazon account or even a Japanese Amazon account with a US address.
I can second Takagi and Tsurezure children manga! If you enjoyed the premise of the anime/english manga, the original Japanese one will improve your experience of the media! Im honestly all about the からかい上手の(元)高木さん manga. Super wholesome stuff.
Hi Yuta, thanks for this video! Do you have light novel recommendations too? Maybe there’s light novels with more furigana? So far I only know there’s an easy LN version of Haruhi
Amazon keeps telling me that the Kindle books are currently not available for purchase. I am trying to get manga in Japanese for a while now and am still unsuccessful. Any tips?
I was thinking about reading Takagi-san since I'm too far behind on the anime. I'll start on Takagi-san once I catch up on the Uzaki-chan manga after Season 2 has finished airing.
Conan is one of those series in Japan that pretty much everyone knows about it. The meme is that if you spot him, don't ask for a signature, just run, because a murder is going to happen.
Do you think it makes sense to learn kanji with shonen manga like One Piece or Naruto? I'm only interested in this type of manga but I am aware of the fact that shonen language is not actual japanese...
It is actual japanese. You don't speak english the way movie characters do but that's still english and it's useful for learning so long as you're aware that you shouldn't go around talking to people like that in real life. And there's no "shounen kanji reading" so whatever kanji you memorise you will be able to use or read elsewhere.
You're right, it's not actual japanese. It's just gibberish they made up specially for the purpose of the mangaverse. It's why Japanese people can't read it.
Yuta, a friend of mine recently gave me a copy of 古見さんはコミュ障です. I never read or watch anime, but I have been studying Japanese for about 2 years now in college as elective courses. What is your opinion on the manga compared to the ones in this video?
I love this manga. And I agree it's definitely not DIFFICULT to read like Attack on Titan would be, at least in terms of vocabulary. But my biggest de-merit for why it's harder than the ones in this video, is that since the first volume has a lot of Komi talking only by writing a black board, there's no furigana in those sections, because your reading her handwriting instead of speech bubbles... and there's a lot of panels like this early on when she's meeting Tadano. So I did have a bit of difficulty with this one until I got my Kanji count up a bit higher and came back to read it later.
For me I actually learnt Kanji through learning lyrics. It's a song so you are 'forced' to keep up with the reading speed which is both good and bad. The bad thing unlike manga is that hiragana and katakana are usually not given. You see A LOT of forms of pronunciation of kanji which might be good but obviously if you are starting out then it is hard.
Thanks for the recommendations. It's good to get reading practice from the kind of Japanese that real Japanese people today actually speak because textbooks and apps can be unnatural.
Yuta, I am curious, what determines whether a manga uses furigana with the kanji or not? I am throwing myself into the deep end by reading manga explicitly without furigana, but I've encountered quite a number that are meant for young adults and above that still include furigana. Actually quite difficult to find ones without them.
Beyond the age of the target audience it's a matter of preference by the author or publishing vehicle I guess. I've seen some without furigana (usually seinen stuff), some that have furigana only the first time a kanji shows up and those with furigana all over. If you have a system for studying kanji and their readings separate from just immersion, I'd just say read what you like, reading with furigana is better than not reading or reading something so dull that it just becomes a chore.
@@Gio954 This, it's gonna depend on the anthology it was published in, young adult ones like Young King/Young King Ours, Petit Comic won't have furigana. I would recommend school-life comics as a starting point, you'll get a lot more actually useful words (rather than fantasy or SF where you're gonna get a lot of useless words mixed in and "chuuni" ways of talking).
@@_car5323 Fair enough, thanks, you two! I haven't read or watched any school life manga or anime in a good few years. I guess maybe I should start again, but for a long time I harboured a negative view towards it because it seems heavily overrated as a genre and still very limited in that nothing seems to happen outside of school life. Am I wrong? To date, a personal favourite manga has been Grand Blue. University life shenanigans with a lot going on outside of the cast's university life and diving club activities as well. But damn, it's hard to find more university life and work life manga and anime.
The first time I saw Doraemon was when I was a kid in Spain and I watched it with the Spanish dub! Because of this, I grew up think it was a Spanish show 😂 I only learnt it was Japanese as an adult
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Yuta, do you have any recommendations for novels containing the most commonly used kanji in everyday life? 🙏
Maybe you could recommend some easy novels?
But how do we learn Japanese by reading manga? Years ago I would read English stuff although I didn't understand it, not even the grammar or the words. Then I would just look up the grammar and the words and somehow understand it, but I just can't do the same with Japanese for some reason. My native language has almost %90 the same grammar with Japanese but I can't find much material on internet to learn grammar
@@abdullahmertozdemir9437 What is your language?
@@abdullahmertozdemir9437 Would you like teach me Urdu language?
Love these no bullcrap straight-to-the point vids!! :)
I've been reading my first Manga in Japanese (Takagi-san) these past couple weeks and it's such a magic journey.
It's hard at times but not too frustrating, and it's so rewarding when in some chapters I'm able to read it all without looking at the dictionary.
I'll check the others out as well, thanks for the recommendations, Yuta.
Yotsubato is another great one I started with in my first year. Because Yotsuba is constantly shown as speaking in Hiragana. But the adults do speak with Kanji. It was a good way to gain confidence with reading when my kanji count was still below 100
What's your Kanji count now?
everyone reads yotsuba lol (for good reason)
@@CorralSummer Of the ones I'm able to write from memory, know every stroke, and know most or all of the readings of... maybe a little over 300.
There's another 200-250 or so that I'm iffy on, maybe I know them in a specific word, and I can read them one way but not the other 5 ways, or I don't remember all the strokes, but i can recognize it sometimes still, etc.
I recommend Kanji Look And Learn from the same company that made Genki. there's a little over 500 kanji in there, and I still got maybe 150 left It can teach me. That, mixed with flash cards and reading manga, has helped with my count a lot, even though I have not been studying my Grammar very much for the last year. I just read a lot.
I've stopped studying actively and switched to a more input based approach lately, so when I come across something naturally I look it up then and try to incorporate it at that time.
Doraemon is an actual classic! Seen the anime but never read the manga
Everyone seen the anime, even before we knew what's anime
Did you know,,, Doraemon has secretly nazi imagery and profilg of nazis in Indonesia?? Also it's 13 years old?? And the country has laws from King Michael Coommodation to keep some hollywood movies playing in Indonesia?? You cannot ban movies because King Michael If you already have seen, do not be surprised,,
@@phoneticalballsack wow
Garou
I'm reading Yuru Yuri, I learned how to address to another person, also is easy to read and is very funny!, I learned Kanji like 赤, 川, 見, 子, 可愛い, 先輩,学生, 愛,恋,顔, 雨, 最高,布団,次, and many others!
漫画を読みながら単語力が以外と自然に上がるんですね。キャラクターとかに興味があるから「これは勉強」って感じはしませんけど、あっという間にふりがなをチェックする必要がなくなります。最高の気分です。
振り仮名が振ってあると振り仮名を読んでしまい漢字を覚えないと聞いたことがあります。もちろん人にもよるのでしょうけど。そこで今回出てきた漫画は全て丁寧に振り仮名が振ってあったので(というか基本的に漫画は振り仮名が振ってあることが多いのかもしれない)どれほど効率的なのかやや疑問に感じました。振り仮名が振ってない作品とか、もしくは電子漫画で振り仮名のon/offモードみたいな機能があれば最高でしょうね。
One key point not mentioned is repetition. You want to choose a manga that you personally enjoy, so that you enjoy reading the same manga over and over again. Set aside some time, say one hour each day, to read. For example, you could set aside one hour to read manga every day after waking up, or an hour before going to sleep. It takes time for the brain to process new information and move that information from short-term memory to long-term memory. If you try to rush, there's a good chance you will forget many of the vocabulary you learned in a previous volume.
When you read the manga for the first time, you will find new vocabulary and expressions. Write them on a flash card or note and keep on reading. Once you're done reading, try reading it again, only checking your flashcard/notes as needed. Maybe you only remember 10% at this point and that's fine. As you keep re-reading, you will notice that you'll start to remember more and more, and at some point you will be able to read the entire volume without having to check your notes!
I respect people who give good advice or write nice comments because there are a lot of those who did opposite...
Great point. I plan on going with Satori Reader pretty soon. Almost done with Genki 1 (took me about 8 months. It may be long, but I really wanted it to stick and I have a class in college anyways lol)
I’m also doing WaniKani and in between everything I always try to write kanji I tend to forget (or sometimes want to remember more.) I also write a lot of good grammar points from Genki.
This method works for me lol
Exactly this but use a spaced repetition program (anki) to make flashcards instead of doing it manually. That way an algorithm tells you to review words instead of you just guessing if you should (plus it's easier to make virtual flash cards than physical ones)
I also highly recommend それでも歩は寄せてくる. It's made by the same author of Takagi-san
I loved the Tsurezure Children anime, but didn’t thought that it would be with Furigana (and as 4-Koma)
Thanks for the pointers, Yuta!
*regarding the first manga*
the english title is: "one week friends" (i dont know if this is correct translation or not)
i've watched the first couple of episodes from the anime, it doesn't seem bad.
regarding the manga format, in english it's called 4koma
personally i'm not a big fan of this format and it seems quite restrictive compared to the regular format where manga artists can use the whole page space however they like
*regarding the third manga*
the english title is: *"Tsurezure Children"* - I've seen the whole anime, it's really good! there are so many different couples with different stories! I highly recommend it! (but again 4koma format is not for me :D)
*takagi is a classic!* In the english language community, colloquially, the genre is called "fluff" because of the cute and heartwarming scenes between the main characters. A very similar type of manga is *"Kubo-san won't let me be invisible"* with original title: 久保さんは僕〈モブ〉を許さない so if you have already seen takagi-san you can check this one out next, it's very similar and very cute too (there is no anime yet, tho)
*Another title* from Takagi-san's author Yamamoto, Souichirou (山本 崇一朗) is *Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru* or それでも歩は寄せてくる this one is also very nice and it's actually getting an anime in July this year! so if you wanna be ahead of the curve, you can check it out early! The story is again about two classmates but their relationship is different from takagi and nishikata's
I hope you enjoy these recommendations!
Wow, You really do know everything
Soredemo Ayumu has to be one of my favorites. I can also recommend one called Siscon Ani to Brocon Imouto ga Shoujiki ni Nattara if you like "these type of manga". But I can expect people just reading the premise and getting disgusted, understandably so.
I started reading beginner manga recently and it's helped a lot with my reading comprehension! Thank you for the recommendations!
How do you find manga in Japanese ? I can only find ones in English.
Hi josie, can you recommend some of the ones you’ve been reading? Thanks!
@@huntergenix8640 rawkuma is a good place to look.
@@linkthehero5 the wanikani Master List of Book Clubs is a good resource. Two that I've been reading are チーズスイートホーム and 三ツ星カラーズ
@0:59 Taking this out of context is quite funny.🤣 のびたさん ごめんなさい。🙇
thank you yuta for getting straight to the point
Thank you, I was actually wondering which manga would be ok for beginners. This is very helpful.
4-koma and slice of life mangas are definitely great for studying. I've been reading Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and Wotakoi to learn kanji and vocabularies regarding otaku culture and drawing. Plus those two are my favorite romcom series.
The lightheartedness of the slice-of-life genre and format of a 4-koma makes reading it in a different language really great for studying. It's comparable to reading fun children stories when you're starting to learn your native language as a child compared to going straight to Shounen/Seinen/Action/Fantasy mangas with deeper plot.
You got straight into it, and for that, I comment to increase engagement. 👍
I'm currently using a Japanese translation of Stephen King's IT to study! I own the English translation and have read it multiple times, so I can easily cross-reference, and I'm also using a Kanji dictionary to identify and define any Kanji I don't recognize. It's been very effective, so far!
Ohh, it's nice that you mentioned Meitantei Conan! It's my favourite series! I've been reading the manga in English but I've seen some Japanese screenshots of the manga here and there, so I've been curious. (Also I've been trying to learn Japanese so thanks for providing a link to it as well 😁)
Thank you so much for just going into the content of the video straightaway.
Love the straight to the point format. Thanks for the tips
I have the first book of よつばと！in Japanese because it was recommended for learning. I haven't looked at it for a while but I had a little trouble right away with it because words would come up that I couldn't find in the dictionary. I'll have to try it again.
I had the same problem when I started reading manga, just study more grammar and it will get easier
Thank you for this recommendation, Yutaさん
This is exactly what I needed. I'm very excited to start reading manga again and learning more kanji! Furigana is really underrated!
I love how Yuta goes straight to the manga list! XD Thanks, Yuta!
Yaaay!! I knew it!! コーナンはすばらしです！大好きです！
* mention of Conan *
THIS, absolutely! I read and watched so, so much Conan while trying to learn. The manga is awesome because it travels all around Japan and sometimes the world, dropping cool new vocabulary for various jobs, special hobbies, Japan culture. It's great. Also I know about 50 different terms for crime and murder, so that's a thing. I doubt things like 死亡推定時刻 ever comes up in casual conversation, like ever, but damned if I ever forget what it means. Lol.
I loved the anime for Isshuukan Friends, have its manga on my plan to read for a long time now, about time I read it I guess 😅
Thanks for the recs!
yuta do a video about your favourite anime or manga that doesn’t necessarily have to do with anything about learning japanese just simply your favourite mangas
One week friends is very very beginner friendly :D The anime is really good too and they speak really clearly.
Nichijou and Yotsubato are very popular choices for first manga too!
Non-Non Biyori is also reccomended for entertain yourself + learn Japanese. Their (all characters) convo are mostly basic and easy to learn, specially Hotaru that always speak in polite level to her friends (she always end her sectence with "desu", or "desuka" for question). Slow paced Slice Of Life & Iyashikei anime are good stuff...
Damn, these look promising. Thank you very much!
The timing for this video to come out was perfect, i was just struggeling yesterday trying to find good manga for my studies
I would strongly recommend reading the Kara no Kyoukai novels for kanji study.
I don't think it is a type of novel for beginners... unless you are a fan of the Fate franchise. lol
I still remember my early days of learning Japanese. Using Urusei Yatsura mangas I could get my hands on.
Words like 絶交 (Shinobu breaks up with Ataru), 卑怯 (Ataru learns that Lamu can fly), 研究不足 (だっちゃ!) (her answer to Ataru's complain), 母船 (mothership), 日没 (another day passes without Ataru catching Lamu).
Also words like 角,一張羅, 宇宙人... Once imprinted by the action I'll never forget them and that's how mangas are great for learning.
love the video man. very straightforward.
Good advice, thanks, Yuta
徒然チルドレン is an absolute banger, Yuta is truly a man of culture
ありがとうございます❤️
名探偵コナン！I've been reading it since 2006, and still love it, so that was a nice surprise! I actually impulse bought a collection of the first 30 volumes in Japanese years ago well before I learned any Japanese myself (teenage me was crazy haha) so maybe I'll dig them out of storage and give them a try now!
Yuta, can you please explain why ドラえもん is written with Katakana and Hiragana?
Damn yuta thank you!
these are all great picks, amazing and funny stories!
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動画ありがとうございます、ゆたさん。
the first manga i read was gotoubun no hanayome, its an shounen therefore it has furigana and the conversations are not that hard to read once you get used to
i have learned katakana and huragana but, so not motivated to learn kanji. it's kind of hard. but this video will help me a little, thank you☺️
Gaaaah thank you! Kanji has been the hardest part, I'm so terrible at remembering readings!
What do you think about Yotsubato! ?
When my boyfriend went to Japan to be an ALT he picked up a few volumes of Yotsuba&! to practice his Japanese on since the Japanese in it is really simple. 😁
Alternative character?
@@kanikamui no an alternate language teacher.
@@thst37 Assistant language teacher
@@arrtvyewer3368 oh my bad I was assuming they had gone to teach English so those were the first words which came to mind which would fit those letters.
Little bit surprised you didn't recommend よつばと！ considering how popular it is and how it'll never get an anime adaptation as long as あずま先生 is alive.
That's the one I started with and it never felt difficult. Lots of manga aimed at children will work though.
Maybe because it is mostly hiragana?
Ahh~~ the typical Yuta sensei endorsing his japanese class。😁😁
Thanks, I was planning to start reading manga but couldn't decide which one(s) to start with.
I'm reading 「とめはねっ！」 but it's a little bit difficult since it has very little furigana, and they talk about the history of calligraphy and technique - which flies right over my head at times 😉 But it's very fun and sweet!
I am curious if anyone know how "difficult" it is, considering theme and language use. I mean, if it's suitable for elementary kids, high school or even older kids 🤔
Anyone know where to buy these in the United States? It's restricted by location on Amazon.
名探偵コナンが好きです
子供の時から
インド人
Do you know of a way to access this content in the US? I haven’t been able to get Japanese manga on kindle with a US Amazon account or even a Japanese Amazon account with a US address.
Japanese bookstore Kinokunyia are in many cities in the US, they have an online store too. Be careful that the manga is actually in Japanese.
wow! right off the bat!
I can second Takagi and Tsurezure children manga! If you enjoyed the premise of the anime/english manga, the original Japanese one will improve your experience of the media! Im honestly all about the からかい上手の(元)高木さん manga. Super wholesome stuff.
These are great but not available for a non-japanese kindle/amazon account, unfortunately.
It says the Kindle versions aren't available for purchase (Possibly just not in my country?) :(
i tried buying takagi san kindle version from amazon, but it keeps complaining I can’t because of copyright restrictions in the Netherlands :(
Thank you for the recommendation Yuta-さん! Why did you mention 西方 and 高木さん getting married tho.😭
I just finished season 3🥲
Nice Yuta
I can see myself reading a ton of new kanji and butchering their pronunciation, like "I crossed the chopsticks" and "I like drinking salmon."
Hi Yuta, thanks for this video! Do you have light novel recommendations too? Maybe there’s light novels with more furigana? So far I only know there’s an easy LN version of Haruhi
Amazon keeps telling me that the Kindle books are currently not available for purchase. I am trying to get manga in Japanese for a while now and am still unsuccessful. Any tips?
Doraemon is actually super well-know here in Spain. I don't know why, it makes no sense, but it's just how it is lol
I was thinking about reading Takagi-san since I'm too far behind on the anime. I'll start on Takagi-san once I catch up on the Uzaki-chan manga after Season 2 has finished airing.
Conan is one of those series in Japan that pretty much everyone knows about it. The meme is that if you spot him, don't ask for a signature, just run, because a murder is going to happen.
3:08: *eventually spoilered the ending*
Well anyways, thanks for all the advice, always helpful! Have a nice day^^
0:58 I just laughed thinking of that statement out of context coming from a japanese youtuber
Two plugs!? Man, this guy is on a roll!
i would love to never forget the kanji for “egg”
anyone know where use foreigners can read them online? pirate or not as long as it can be read in Japanese
3:48
I was just thinking I need to be at the level that I will be able to understand them while reading first then you said this 😆
Do you think it makes sense to learn kanji with shonen manga like One Piece or Naruto? I'm only interested in this type of manga but I am aware of the fact that shonen language is not actual japanese...
It is actual japanese. You don't speak english the way movie characters do but that's still english and it's useful for learning so long as you're aware that you shouldn't go around talking to people like that in real life. And there's no "shounen kanji reading" so whatever kanji you memorise you will be able to use or read elsewhere.
You're right, it's not actual japanese. It's just gibberish they made up specially for the purpose of the mangaverse. It's why Japanese people can't read it.
Catching up to Conan just taught me hanin sasuga keibu and kesatsu
Yuta, a friend of mine recently gave me a copy of 古見さんはコミュ障です. I never read or watch anime, but I have been studying Japanese for about 2 years now in college as elective courses. What is your opinion on the manga compared to the ones in this video?
damn, that's a best seller
I love this manga. And I agree it's definitely not DIFFICULT to read like Attack on Titan would be, at least in terms of vocabulary.
But my biggest de-merit for why it's harder than the ones in this video, is that since the first volume has a lot of Komi talking only by writing a black board, there's no furigana in those sections, because your reading her handwriting instead of speech bubbles... and there's a lot of panels like this early on when she's meeting Tadano. So I did have a bit of difficulty with this one until I got my Kanji count up a bit higher and came back to read it later.
For me I actually learnt Kanji through learning lyrics.
It's a song so you are 'forced' to keep up with the reading speed which is both good and bad.
The bad thing unlike manga is that hiragana and katakana are usually not given.
You see A LOT of forms of pronunciation of kanji which might be good but obviously if you are starting out then it is hard.
I love so much karakai jouzu no takagi san it's super cute, i'm going to buy the italian version of manga, but in future i'll buy the japanese one
anyone know where I can read the Japanese versions of these manga?
is there any website that I can read manga in japanese on?
Was expecting Teasing Master Takagi-san.
Isshuukan friends is good.
If you don't like to read, try the anime.
I would add Shirokuma Cafe.
I find Nijiiro Days good to read and practice since it has slice of life too
Tsurezure children, highly recommended the Japanese there is easy to learn and the Kanji has a hiragana above it to helps reader remember it better
Please make a wish with ema at any Shinto Shrine, write this "i hope body at Hermawan born in Shinto family", thanks for it .
I need to read manga..
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Thanks for the recommendations. It's good to get reading practice from the kind of Japanese that real Japanese people today actually speak because textbooks and apps can be unnatural.
Hey I remember isshuukan friends it was so fun
Yuta, I am curious, what determines whether a manga uses furigana with the kanji or not? I am throwing myself into the deep end by reading manga explicitly without furigana, but I've encountered quite a number that are meant for young adults and above that still include furigana. Actually quite difficult to find ones without them.
Beyond the age of the target audience it's a matter of preference by the author or publishing vehicle I guess. I've seen some without furigana (usually seinen stuff), some that have furigana only the first time a kanji shows up and those with furigana all over. If you have a system for studying kanji and their readings separate from just immersion, I'd just say read what you like, reading with furigana is better than not reading or reading something so dull that it just becomes a chore.
@@Gio954 This, it's gonna depend on the anthology it was published in, young adult ones like Young King/Young King Ours, Petit Comic won't have furigana.
I would recommend school-life comics as a starting point, you'll get a lot more actually useful words (rather than fantasy or SF where you're gonna get a lot of useless words mixed in and "chuuni" ways of talking).
@@_car5323 Fair enough, thanks, you two!
I haven't read or watched any school life manga or anime in a good few years. I guess maybe I should start again, but for a long time I harboured a negative view towards it because it seems heavily overrated as a genre and still very limited in that nothing seems to happen outside of school life. Am I wrong?
To date, a personal favourite manga has been Grand Blue. University life shenanigans with a lot going on outside of the cast's university life and diving club activities as well. But damn, it's hard to find more university life and work life manga and anime.
The first time I saw Doraemon was when I was a kid in Spain and I watched it with the Spanish dub! Because of this, I grew up think it was a Spanish show 😂 I only learnt it was Japanese as an adult
How would I go about getting these manga in Japanese?
Is there any way to read japanese manga online?
I felt somewhat embarrassed when I was doing a lesson and knew the kanji for 'meat' right away... because I'd recently started reading Kinnikuman...
i watched the anime of isshukan friends and it's really good lol
*Doraemon manga is great for learning kanji*
I learned how to read my own language with translated version of doraemon manga when i was 8