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Learning seriously Japanese did end up being a very valuable experience for me as well even if its usefulness is a bit debatable in my career. Although it could be true that working adults are at a disadvantage in learning foreign languages, I felt like it worked out better on my end compared to the past when I had more time. My time management skills/discipline really wasn't at great before getting invested into Japanese. But yeah, even though my understanding in the language has improved, I also have a long way to go. For me, it's just too easy to feel confident at one point but once again feel stupid after reading something else shortly after and/or trying to test myself.
Though, I suppose it's natural to struggle and feel bothered while trying to learn something, can't really learn anything without pain after all. I figured I could also take N1 by the end of the year to get those credentials but it's hard to feel 100% confident when my comprehension, especially with my knowledge in pure kana still needs plenty of work. Probably another year for me too, yeah.
Tbh it's only until after reading Paradise in JP, things actually started to become way more comfortable because I did struggle reading through it. While the game's plot is fairly simplistic by itself, I really didn't think interpreting the actual writing style was that simple, especially if I genuinely wanted to get a solid understanding of the little things. The huge amounts of slang and pure kana can be a headache to parse since I wasn't using anything else as an aid besides dictionary/search engine lookups, of course. Mitsugi's dialogue was probably the most difficult out of them all. On the flipside, he always had the most fun ways to piss off Azuma.
When I look back at it, I'm glad I chose a L&D work like Paradise to learn. All that heavy colliquism was useful at improving attentiveness since it was a lot of white noising the details for me before. Besides the great characterization, character interactions and black comedy, Paradise's writing style is definitely one of its strongest points - the pure viscerality in the descriptions is peak. Actually kinda amazing how L&D are two writers who could work so well together.
While I have not read the Cage series yet, I have no doubt I will definitely enjoy it for similar things as well. It's thanks to the 感想 from you and the other anons here that I got into the BL genre again after so many years, really.