/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Need some help, /jp/.

Is anyone here currently learning Japanese? And I don't mean thumbing through a phrasebook to get by on holiday; I mean anyone seriously learning to become fluent in it.

I myself am interested in making it a well-rounded second language - both in its written and spoken forms - and wondered if there were any good websites, books, etc. to start with. I'm not sure what to begin with - I've been told to start with kanji and hiragana first becuse learning romaji to begin with would mean I'd only have to relearn it in hiragana and kanji. If so, how would one go about this, etc.? If not, how should I start?

Pic unrelated and thanks in advance, kind Anon.