/jp/ - Otaku Culture

4-5 years ago. I started by challenging myself to play unlocalised games and hung around a lot on Japanese speaking sites like futaba. I'd just go through the text with a kanji radical identifying tool and google translate and piece together what was being said.
A significant amount of this study was done with eroge, where I'd stop mid-fap to translate what was in the text window, then return to fapping again.

I got to the point where I could understand the gist of most casual written Japanese. Those habits gradually fell by the wayside a few years ago for some reason.