>>8 Few people want to spend hours toiling away at a language with three different alphabets and entirely different grammar/phonetics systems from their native one, for something they're not wholeheartedly passionate about, only so they can kind of read children's books after an entire year. Japanese is hard, and it takes a lot of dedication; you can't just "learn Japanese" because it's not a decision you make once on a whim, but something you have to deeply work towards for a long while. "Learn Japanese so you can read visual novels" isn't as convenient as people online make it out to be. OP could just cope by using a took like >>6 or something
Few people want to spend hours toiling away at a language with three different alphabets and entirely different grammar/phonetics systems from their native one, for something they're not wholeheartedly passionate about, only so they can kind of read children's books after an entire year. Japanese is hard, and it takes a lot of dedication; you can't just "learn Japanese" because it's not a decision you make once on a whim, but something you have to deeply work towards for a long while. "Learn Japanese so you can read visual novels" isn't as convenient as people online make it out to be.
OP could just cope by using a took like >>6 or something