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?
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.
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
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.
