I’m thinking about starting to learn Japanese, but I worry it’ll be too hard.

I speak English natively and am around A2-B1 in Spanish. I look at the Japanese alphabet and Kanji as being so intimidating. But I'm obsessed with their culture; How respectful they and considerate and communal the culture seems to be. I like learning things I'm like okay what if I just set out to get N5 or N4 it would seem sort of duable, like learning Hieroglyphics or something. I just worry that Japanese and their writing system will be too hard. Do the characters in Japanese have any similarities that would make them somewhat comprehensible like kanji or are you just putting together a jigsaw puzzle of thousands of pieces, every time you see them.