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good and bad news, you can learn all 40k+ kanji in existence and still not understand a thing in japanese
have you heard of Zipfs law? its the postulation that when observations (e.g., words) are ranked by their frequency, the frequency of a particular observation is inversely proportional to its rank. it occurs on a lot of things mind you, not just words, and it is actually very helpful to understanding how immersion, languages, and generally, human minds work
see, for a sentence to be coherent and have meaning to another human being, it must follow certain rules
if i say car is red, that means something. if i say car is gravity, that does not.
in other words, every word one says limits what every other word can be
the point of this is that our minds instinctively understand this (have you ever completed someone elses sentences, or predicted what someone is going to say, for example?)
to learn japanese you need to absorb sufficient context as to the cause effect relationship between every japanese word, and the world. or at least a lot of them.
kanji in itself don't have anything to do with it, even if you were able to read (knew the readings of every kanji in a game/song/whatever, ie, someone handed a romaji transcript) everything you want in japanese, without sufficient context it would make no more sense to you than the kanji do
also, kanji are actually comfy and easy to read once you get used to them. they have meaning and sound components in many cases which make their meaning and sound obvious even if you havent seen them before
if you want to learn japanese, picking a starter oshi and listening to her is probably a better way than memorizing the glyphs themselves.
that said it is the hardest language on earth
good luck bro!