/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Okay listen the fuck up, actual advice from someone who learned Japanese through input, is now fluent in Japanese, and live in Japan.

Step 1: Learn hiragana and katakana https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/learning-kana-in-two-days.html
Step 2: Learn extremely basic grammar/sentence structure. https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/learning-grammar.html is a good place to start. Don't trust the shitters here recommending you garbage sites.
Step 3: JUST FUCKING watch WHATEVER anime YOU WANT TO watch AND KEEP DOING IT. Use Japanese subs and mpv scripts.

Yes yes I know kanji is hard, words are hard, whatever. Ignore rtk, ignore retarded kanji mnemonic methods, ignore any bullshit. Use Anki to make Targeted Sentence Cards, not vocab or word cards. Literally just spend time with the language, look up words you don't know in a dictionary, look up grammar points in a grammar dictionary (like this index https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/resources.html#grammar).). Don't fall for fucking bunpro or other shit. Keep immersing.
It takes time but that's LITERALLY all you need to do. At first it's slower because there's a barrier to entry (so-called "first few pages effect") but if you don't give up even just after a week or two of grinding out the same manga/anime/light novel/movie/whatever you want to immerse with, you WILL improve. Just read whatever the fuck you WANT to read.

Good luck.