After reading Moe’s guide for beginners (thanks to a previous post today), I picked up on the point that immersion is best if it’s enjoyable and fun – even if it is incomprehensible for complete beginners.
Now, I’ve been studying Japanese for less than 3 weeks, and I’ve been wanting to immerse in something, in addition to my Genki + Anki studying. However, any YouTube videos I’ve seen or beginner podcasts are also mostly incomprehensible at the moment.
But going off of what Moe says in his guide, I can immerse in something much more interesting to myself, and as time goes on I’ll generally find myself understanding more and more.
With this in mind, is the Pokemon anime a good way to go about this? I’m a HUGE fan of Pokemon, I collect the cards, I play the games, I’m always up to date on all the news, I watch YouTube videos on it. So it makes sense to me that watching the anime with Japanese subtitles would be a good way to go about this as I can stay motivated to regularly do this.
Are there any negatives to doing this as my main source of immersion as a complete beginner? I can imagine that Pokemon names and moves etc might be very different to normal Japanese vocabulary so I wouldn’t want to have a really difficult time.
On a side note, is there a Pokemon manga or something I can read related to Pokemon?
by creativegains