Reading manga in TL

My Love Mix-up is one of the first manga I’ve read and actually understood what’s going on. Reading actual Japanese (not textbook) can be quite challenging. You kinda have to get in the flow of things, trying not to stop at the first word you don’t know and keep reading until it kinda clicks.

I’ve started many Japanese manga, but I’ve always give up. But I had a couple volumes in English. I had already watched the Japanese drama so I knew the story quite well. Viz’s publishing was still at volume 3 at that point. I didn’t have much patience and bought the rest of the volumes in Japanese.

While the beginning was quite tough. I’m happy I persevered and kept reading. I think I finished all the volumes in a couple months. Even though I didn’t understand everything. I was very happy with this accomplishment.

However once you read a full series it’s easy to think. “I can read now” and then be disillusioned by the next manga you try. I have been trying to read another manga here and there, but my level is not there yet. So these last couple months I’ve been focusing on grammar and kanji.

I really want to try reading Given. Maybe I need to give it another go. 🤔