/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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

Step 1: Learn hiragana and katakana
Step 2: Learn extremely basic grammar/sentence structure. https://sakubi.neocities.org/ is a good place to start and https://bunpro.jp/ is a surprisingly good tool/collection of grammar points to review
Step 3: JUST FUCKING PLAY WHATEVER VIDEOGAME YOU WANT TO PLAY AND KEEP DOING IT

Yes yes I know kanji is hard, words are hard, whatever. Ignore anki, ignore retarded kanji mnemonic methods, ignore any bullshit. 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://itazuraneko.neocities.org/grammar/masterreference.html or bunpro is good too). Keep reading.
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 game/manga/anime/light novel/visual novel/whatever you want to read, you WILL improve. Just read whatever the fuck you WANT to read.

Good luck.