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>Japanese is hard
Just because it is a lot of text in a single page, it doesn't make it hard. It has furigana on every kanji.

I promised myself I learn a lot of different things so I would stop being a loser. Turns out I'm terrible at keeping promises.

Yes.

I really should start cramming kanji one day. No time for such stuff right now though.

I just want to be able to read Japanese at the speed of thought instead of one fiftieth of that speed. I get embarrassed when I play the Japanese versions of Yoshi's Island or Final Fantasy V and I can only read the first few kana before the text box moves on.

I did apply myself for a few months, but I have commitment issues.

>>27615
We'll be losers together, anon.

>>27615
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>>27627
It'll come around eventually, for sure

That image is nice and crispy 1600 pixels hight. Most manga RAW scans are at 1200 or worse. Which can be very horrible to read a manga even if it is furigana based. The furigana you often can't read at all and so are the kanji, because the more lines they have the more they merge into a blob.

>>27675
Newer scans are pretty damn good (or screenshots of manga reading apps), but older content is generally a pain in the ass.
Reading those low quality scans is no problem for natives and you gradually begin to recognize the kanji and kana by their blurry low-res shape. Coming back to things you've struggled in the past is a good progress check.

>>27675
The problem with that image isn't the resolution, it's that godawful contrast. That must have been scanned in monochrome instead of grayscale.
Pic related has a worse resolution and is much more readable.

>>27698
Er, pic related rather.

>>27695
>Newer scans are pretty damn good (or screenshots of manga reading apps), but older content is generally a pain in the ass.
Generally not true. Almost everything I have wanted to try reading is capped at 1200, new or older.

I technically started learning back when Criminal Girls came out in English, but I only really got stuck into it instead of procrastinating about half a year ago and right now I've got around 600 kanji down. After another year of study I might just be at the level of a retarded child.

>>27704
Have you begun grammar, anon?

>>27704
>Criminal Girls
I love this one. The thought process of censoring a game for an audience of "deviants" will never fail to confound me.

>>27701
You are probably getting raws from the wrong places. Give PerfectDark a try. Newer manga is almost always digital rips or very decent quality scans.

>>27714
Is there any way to do it without the 40GB space lost? I have 4TB in total, but only 200GB left in each HDD. Going lower makes me anxious.

>>27715
Afraid not. If there is something specific you're looking for, I could just download for you though.

>>27716
I guess I will just sacrifice the space. Is there any reason why something might have not start to download for over an hour now? Maybe I need to reach the 40GB again.
But you seem to be right, partially. Decided to try with the Gurazeni manga first. There are indeed many volumes that are higher than ~50mb (the usual size of 1200 pixel high manga volumes), not all. So far not even all volumes have shown, but maybe there is chance for more to show up eventually.

>>27717
Downloads do take a little while to start, especially when you have a small unity folder. I remember hearing that they won't start at all below some specific size, but I don't know if it's true or not.
It is more of a "forget about it and check back on the morning" type of P2P like Ed2k instead of something with permanent seeding like BitTorrent.
It does take a considerable while to connect to all nodes after every startup too. It's best to keep it running instead of opening it whenever you feel like downloading something if you want the quickest results.

I keep starting to study, then stopping for many months, then starting again. I will never make it like this. I am trying to come up with a solution.

>>27755
It's all smooth sailing once you manage to make Japanese a part of your daily routine. Maybe try to find things that aren't very taxing and that you can do every day? Listening to radio and following RSS feeds did the trick for me. Also, remember that keeping morale high is your top priority in the very early stages: avoid big cramming sessions and instead stick to an amount of study that you could realistically keep up; if the recommended material is boring, don't be afraid to dive into harder things that you find more interesting; don't lose sight of the reasons why you want to learn the language to begin with.