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For starters, learning how to read all of the Hiragana and Katakana (before any sort of lessons) would help you tremendously. Hiragana and Katakana is pretty much basic essentials. You could easily google websites and tools to help you there. Youtube could also be a very valuable resource here. You should probably get to the point where you can instantly recognize and read any hiragana/katagana characters, almost like a native English speaker can with the standard English alphabet.

Learning Kanji is significantly more difficult. You will need quite a bit of diligence to learn Kanji. A lot of people suggest using Heisig’s Kanji books, though I personally feel they are slightly gimmicky. Whatever works though ヽ（´ー｀）┌

You could probably teach yourself most of the very basic grammar rules via websites like this: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

As for formal textbooks, American Universities use the Genki I + II series of textbooks for beginner’s Japanese. They are slightly outdated, but language only changes so much over a decade or two.

The only issue with self-teaching is that you don’t really get much hands on experience with the language. Having a friend to practice Japanese with helps tremendously with fluency. You could always look around online for a person willing to practice with you (I believe Rosetta stone offers such a service), but I’m not too well informed on such.

Also, watching subtitled anime helps with fluency/recognition of certain sentence structures and such. The only issue that you should be aware of is that anime is much more heavy on casual speech, whereas mainstream teaching guides and methods focus much more formal speech initially. There will be a slight disconnect between some learned material, and actual conversations you overhear in anime, until you start learning casual dialogue.

Good luck with your endeavor, and hopefully you could finish those Scrapped Princess novels

1. I’m seeing a lot of reviews on your blog. A LOTTTT. And I’d like to see the reviews organised in some way, because at the moment it’s quite impossible to browse through older reviews without having to go slowly through ‘older posts’, which I never do. In terms of the actual reviews, I have to say that I’m really a flip-test and how’s-the-art kind of person. So I usually just skim through reviews. A general mark, score, or really brief sum up of what you thought would be nice. Kinda like what you have on your ‘read list to be reviewed’, which, by the way, is it me or has it not been updated for a while? XD

Also, any particular reason your comments for old posts are closed..? Automatically or? I still see reviews being relevant months after they’re posted; but that’s a personal choice and not a big deal. Just curious.

2. Le Chevalier d’Eon, because I’m lazy, it’s on the front page, you’ve read the entire series so I’d expect you to have a good idea of it, and I’ve heard about it and been interested in it. Del Rey usually does a good job, too.

3. I r @bythebooks. Haven’t seen you around on Twitter recently, hope you’re ok and just busy or summat.

4. As far as I’m concerned, the only good reason is ‘it’s out of print or the publishers have dropped it’. But since you’re going to buy it, I’ll have to come up with something else..>.> So this was pretty hard to answer.
* Moyashimon, because the anime is pretty much the same storyline and I recently watched both the anime and the live action. Need some time to forget it a bit so the story will be somewhat-new to me again. And also, I’m nitpicky and don’t really like that it became MoyasImon..:( But that’s not a good reason, hurhur. XD
* Code Geass: Knight because much as I like the CG bishounen, I heard that it was pretty much doujin and the art varied in quality. Would like to see a sample before I get it…
* The Witch of Artemis, because I read a sample and liked it, but not enough to want to read on.

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I’ve only actually tried two readers; emanga gave me no problems at all with loading speed. (Though it just stopped once and I had to reload the page; maybe that was it. ._.) I liked the flipping action. ^^ Only thing I’d have added was the fullscreen option.

The other one I’ve tried was Tokyopop — omg don’t get me started. Non-full-screen is so tiny it’s unreadable, and full-screen isn’t much better. Sad~~
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