Tips on reading mangas without furigana?

I am around n3-n2 ish and have been buying Manga to make my collection and to use as immersion. So far I have been reading Manga looking up words I don't know in a dictionary and this method has been carrying me so far until now. I recently bought dandadan and it has no furigana at all. At all.

In my 9k ish anki vocabulary its not enough to understand what I'm reading. I do like that it has no kanji readings since it feels like a crutch in the way my eyes always dart to the furigana and not the kanji. On the other hand I don't have full knowledge of the language so I will struggle a lot. I tried last night and man getting through a chapter can take a bit of time using yomiwa/camera.

I was thinking of holding on to this Manga until i solve this dilemma. Will downloading vocabulary anki decks work? I do read other things besides Manga like nhk news and websites but my vocabulary is still weak. I feel like I'm back to formula now…

by Null_sense

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