Hi. I’m a big YouTube guy. I spend a ton of time watching YouTube videos. But for the life of me, I can’t seem to enjoy Japanese YouTube. I do enjoy watching SOME vtubers occasionally when they play fun games. Other than that I don’t really read much unless it’s on reddit/lemmy or github. Someone pointed me to a Japanese mastodon instance but it has a pretty intense VPN block.
What do you guys watch/read in Japanese?
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https://animelon.com/ has a really fancy annotated subtitle system where you can mouseover and look up words, and scroll through full history. Or you can just watch raw as well.
Animelon is great. Nowadays I mostly use https://nyaa.si/ + asbplayer + mokuro when I want to watch anime / read manga
I personally am going through tadoku catalog right now to get up to a level where I can watch and read random stuff.
I tried a YT method with Russian but I only found 2 youtubers that ware making enjoyable stuff. It was very easy to just switch accounts so a bit of willpower to get through unfun recommended stuff was necessary. Try to use the Algorithm to your advantage. It wants you to stay on youtube. (Sadly I don’t want to learn Russian so I didn’t keep going)
For Japanese Fediverse look into Misskey (and forks). They have a LOT of Japanese speaking people.
I am already reading a bunch of LN and Anime so switching for me will be easy. I also have a backlog of interesting looking YT channels: ずんだもんの定理, あらゐけいいち and Clear Usui
Do you know any good instances that aren’t just art posts?
I tried joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN on and got kicked out :c It feels like I’ve tried everything in order for the algorithm to recommend me good videos. I try to like and comment on every good video I find. It has been like this for years at this point.
It has been like this for years at this point.
option 1: reset the algorithm or
option 2: give up on youtube or
option 3: use classic subscriptions instead of algorithm. Just watch one guy that you enjoy.joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN
a) Do you REALLY need a VPN?
b) Find an instance that is VPN friendly. Just like lemmy.world has VPNs blocked but other instances don’t. It would be similar there.
What about weather news with those cute girls? There is weather, news, games, pictures from viewers, stories etc. Although I haven’t watched that in a while.
Where do I find this? 🤔
It’s live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8v5PKr5L7U . I remember also watching clips (sometimes subbed), memes, etc on youtube. If you watch back a stream you might want to skip around a bit to skip past silent parts where no host is talking.
Importing used books from Japan is relatively cheap. I have a shelf with various novels and manga in Japanese I bought over the years.
What have you been reading lately?
Re: manga, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying rereading manga that I’ve read in English, but this time in Japanese. It makes it much less stressful when I already know the gist of what’s happening. I’m probably a much more casual learner than most folks here, though.
I’ve read some volumes of のんのんびより which I’ve quite enjoyed. Attempted 君たちはどう生きるか but that one’s a bit tough for my level.
のんのんびより is nice and laid back. I haven’t read 君たちはどう生きるか tho.
