Disclaimer I never had Japanese training/course, formal or informal. What I usually do are listening to subbed anime, repeating lines I like or using machine translation. Despite all of my shortcomings I want to teach it to our community. I printed a hiragana and katakana chart as a quick reference but even now I still forget some

First a history on how I did. I used to read yuri on danbooru since they put translation over the picture but it never occur me to even trying to read Japanese text. One day I somehow (pic1) read an untranslated one and somehow got curious with what the character are saying. By using browser google translate I write the kanji one by one and get this from bottom panel ''Koroshiaide wa make chaushi. Anta wa watashi ni dake yasashikunai. Haru no yoru wa nemurenaishi.'' THEN a kind soul in internet give me an OCR (on screen reader) named Kanjitomo to extract kanji AND translate it. I didn't use it often but it allow you to extract kanji AND translate it. Nowadays I use Google Translate App from phone since it can scan pictures That’s my history but what I want to share is I get it, even looking at Japanese text might intimidating but after trying to actualy read it, you will become familiar. More than treating it like Aztec script.

I collect bottom kanji I see from pixiv description, put them into excel then I sort them. kanji at really top of the list 下に below, under 世界 sekai 初音 Hatsune

really bottom kanji 魔理沙 / Marisa 魚 / fish

電話 phone (call) 電 electric 話 hanashi, talk(ing), conversation

願い negai. wish we all need this especially at times like this

桜の木 sakura tree

終末 shuumatsu. doomsday /End day 腐 rotten but probably refer to fujoshi 花見 Hanami. flower viewing

This one is uncommon. 真 can be read as ma or shin 真面目maji-me = literally mean serious eye, it refer to stereotype serious character 真髄 (this one is also weird kanji) shinzui = essence (like this picture showing essence of Ui’s heart)

水 water 永遠 eternity Notice how the kanji is quite similar? 野菜 yasai vegetable

昼休み hiruyasumi. noon recess, or possibly lunch break 雷 rai 電 >>844 Together they make Raiden

攻略完了kouryaku Completed. curiously 攻 looks like uke/seme 新 shin/atarashi. new

宅配 takuhai. home delivery Maybe this should go into food thread https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81934012

次元 jigen. dimensional 壁 kabe. wall "College students who want to overcome the dimensional barrier" yuri I think I had a translated version of this .

糸 thread 紅 kurenai 紗 gauze . The expression ``as if covered with gauze means "the scenery looks vague, as if you were looking through a thin, transparent cloth like gauze. these kanji meanings aren't related but there is a similar shape

海 umi 溶けた toketa. melt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31m2sJ62YM this video is about mama figures among Bang Dream bands. I watch it using yt’s auto-translate feature. This is what I can make from the video: -1 Classical mama. sibling of vastly different age. Ensure her band having a fun highschool. Noticing the feeling of Arisa who cant be honest. She claim she is greedy but she step back and watch with smile. Extend to other band. -2 "spoiled but relied by everyone" Good nature even often fails. The type to be pampered once in a month by members. Growth, straighten her members. When find someone troubled,she try to solve problem. even though she cant, she stay till the end. Prone to tears but furious to people who say bad things to her band -3 know the harsh of entertainment industry. If unit miss a beat, she quickly followup. Raise voice to protect everyone, lenient with younger member. Overprotective to her classmate, Kanon. existence is crucial for growth of member -4 "mama of other band" At first join Roselia for osananajimi. Make cookie, support band. Good at cooking, sweetness to other. -5 “Among free spirited ones, she is the protector” dragged by it. Can’t be sure what the 3baka will do in or outside school. Type of person who doesnt want get involved with troublesome stuff. Want band member to be happy: during valentine make chocolate with them. -6 “Newbie mama” tried her best. Try growing little by little. When their band threaten to break up she tell members ikageni (get over it/be serious/don’t f**k with me) . -7 Ideal* mama (not by individual but video describe her as “risou”. Idk if that mean ideal mom or realistic) Easen up temper. Difficult with word. She fight with Pareo but remember to apologize.

枯渇 kokatsu. wither 桜 saku. one of the word for bloom, similar to saki

落書きrakugaki. doodle 蓮子 Renko i notice that --'-- part on top of first kanji are similar

西 sei. western. often used in Mahjong or to call western-made Touhou (east) 西部 seibu. western. curiously this combine the kanji for west and "club"

最近 saikin. Recently Recently i learn that agreeing on future event doesnt simply mean giving up your time when the event happen, but also give unexpected times, months before the event, preparing it arrghuaughwshwshsh

貯金 chokin. saving (money)

手袋 tebukuro. glove 釣り tsurui ( a different tsurui). fishing

明け yoake. dawn or ending 鉛筆 enpitsu. pencil 紙越空魚 Sowaro (from otherside picnic)

歾漣 senren? actually i don't know

ささやき sasayaki

East asian languages aren't direct when mentioning negatives. They said "tsumi nai" which directly mean "without sin". properly translated into innocent

趣味 shumi hobby It sound like tsumi (sin). which is how our hobby is perceived by religions

今夜、泊ま Kon'ya, haku ma. Staying tonight https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/107450704 / 友達と結婚式の予行練習をする話【創作百合】 Marrying a friend

I didn’t think of this before that ‘daughter’ can be said not only as female offspring of parents, but also female child of a clan

oyashiro. shrine. I thought it was going to be jinja

猫 neko

落書きま rakugaki Either grafitti or doodle

何度もNando mo. Many times

見てくれ mite kure