TheMoeWay Resources Sheet¶

Learning¶

Kana¶

※ - Tae Kim - The Writing System - This page has an explanation of what the kana are and what they are used for. You may find this useful if you don't already know.
DJT Kana - A simple kana recognition game. You may want to enable all the hiragana, and katakana and the combinations in order to properly test your skills. It also features a "play sound" button, which I recommend you make use of.

Kanji¶

Important Note: Reading a lot is the best way to learn kanji. This means you should learn kanji through learning to read words. We have linked Kaishi 1.5k as a deck to "learn kanji" this way. However, you can seek alternatives below if you keep forgetting how to read words you come across, or if you want to learn how to write.

Kaishi 1.5k - The basic vocabulary deck the guide suggests to learn Japanese. You can also find it here (click on the .apkg file).
※ - The "Kanken Deck" - The best way to learn how to write when you can already read.
Kanken resource page
Chronopolize's Kanji Components - An Anki deck to help you differentiate similar kanji by teaching components.
Usagi Chan Kanji Phonetics - An Anki deck to help you learn the readings of kanji components that carry a consistent on-yomi.
Remembering The Kanji (RTK)
(Uses RTK) Learn the Kanji - Guide on how to use RTK.
Recognition Remembering The Kanji with less than 450 cards (RRTK) - Shortened version of RTK.

Vocabulary¶

※ Kaishi 1.5k - The basic vocabulary deck the guide suggests to learn Japanese. You can also find it here (click on the .apkg file).

Legacy vocab decks:¶

These are not recommended anymore.

TheMoeWay Tango N5 Deck - An older deck that was recommended before Kaishi 1.5k was made.
TheMoeWay Tango N4 Deck - The follow-up deck to Tango N5 above, now superseded by Kaishi 1.5k.
Core2.3K VN Order Deck - The optimized Core deck but ordered in terms of visual novel frequency. Got absorbed into Kaishi 1.5k.

Grammar¶

※ - Cure Dolly’s Organic Japanese
Cure Dolly Complete Transcript by nunko, Mordraug & kellenok UPDATED - A complete transcript of Cure Dolly videos.
※ Japanese Ammo by Misa Grammar Playlist - sleeper way of binging grammar.
※ IMABI - Very thorough and comprehensive guide to Japanese grammar, recommended for intermediate-to-advanced learners.
Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese, a guide for grammar
Yokubi - Effectively a condensed version of Tae Kim's guide that is fast and easy to read through early on.
Reference list of all Japanese grammar patterns. - Very useful for referring to a point.
"Making Sense of Japanese - What The Textbooks Don't Tell You" by Jay Rubin - similar to Cure Dolly, it's like the equivalent of the first few videos. It dispells common misconceptions about Japanese grammar people have due to studying Japanese grammar the "traditional" way.
NihongoKyoshi JLPT grammar - JLPT "grammar" taught in Japanese. I recommend most people learn these after Cure Dolly/Tae Kim/yokubi/whatever guide you used. You should learn these because many of the grammar points can be easily overlooked when seen in the wild if you don't already know them.
※ - NihongoKyoshi Anki Deck - Highly recommended. It only has Japanese definitions, an intentional choice in order to avoid false associations of Japanese grammar with English words.
Dictionary of Japanese Grammar - DoJG Deck
JLAB anki course - An anki deck that teaches kana, kanji and all the grammar from Tae Kim's guide.
※ 初級を教える人のための日本語文法ハンドブック - best book for learning Japanese grammar in Japanese, for learners & Japanese teachers.
国語—文法 - YouTube playlist of 学校文法. A pedagogical framework for teaching grammar to native Japanese speakers. Not made for learners or linguists.
国語—古文 - YouTube playlist of 古文, to help you learn classical Japanese. Also check out the grammar dictionaries for Yomitan in my dictionary collection.

Pitch accent¶

Strategies for Acquiring Pitch Accent in Japanese - video by Darius on how to acquire pitch.
kotu.io - pitch accent game to train pitch accent recognition.
Dogen Japanese Phonetics - For people interested in pitch accent and the like.

Anki¶

Anki download¶

Anki add-ons¶

Anki mining card types¶

※ Lapis - elegant, simple and easy to set up note type.
Kiku - a feature-rich note type.

Immersion Content¶

Anime¶

Nyaa.si - torrent tracker with raw anime, this is the best place to get anime. I recommend you use qBittorrent!
Hianime.to - anime streaming site where you can turn off subtitles and switch to Japanese 日本語 audio.
asbplayer Chrome Extension - Chrome extension that allows you to drag and drop subtitle files (See Subtitles) on a video you are streaming. It works with hianime.to, and it may work with other sites.
Animelon - stream anime with Japanese subtitles.
AnimeCards - Subtitles - Goes over how to get Japanese subtitles and how to sync them for the video.
Crunchyroll - it's free but with ads. You can turn off subtitles.

Movies & TV Shows (J-drama)¶

Bagikuy - j-drama download links.
Nyaa.si - has some jdrama.
Rakuten Viki - stream some J-drama.
Crunchyroll (free with ads) - some j-drama on here.
Minidrama - MKV downloads for J-drama.
Raredoramas - site for collecting rare J-Drama
IPTV GitHub Repo - japanese - watch Japanese TV channels with a video player like VLC.
Japanese Live TV Streams - Good speed but small collection. TBS and TV Tokyo work great.
Japanese Live TV Streams 2 - Not all channels work.
Japanese Live TV Streams 3- use a VPN.
Japanese Live TV Streams 4
Japanese Live TV Android App - has the best collection. Android only but you can emulate Android on a PC.
ABEMA - Watch ABEMA Japanese TV. You need a Japanese VPN if you are outside of Japan though.
Search on bilibili - Chinese website but they are pretty good at Japanese content piracy.
Terrace House BGND - Download links for raw Terrace House BGND
Japanese Media Recommendations List

Manga¶

Refer to the tools section for info on how to make lookups easier for manga.

※ Mangatan all-in-one - Easy to use all-in-one solution for reading Japanese manga with automatic OCR for seamless Yomitan lookups. index.min.json file here
Archive.org 2019 Archive - Archive of some manga.
BilingualManga - Yomitan compatible & one-click translation.
Hakuneko Manga Downloader - You can download Japanese manga here, use a combination of the raw and japanese tags.
Manga Google Drive - Google Drive folder with some manga.
Nyaa.si - raw manga torrents, there are a LOT Of manga here.
Klmanga - Klmanga, read manga online.
mangareader.to - mangareader, read manga online.
Rawkuma - Also lets you read manga online.

The websites below have the best collection but can be a pain to download from.
Use a debrid service to generate premium full speed download links!

A-zmanga - Has the most content. You need a debrid service though.
DLRaw - Starting to catch up to A-zmanga. You may need a debrid service though.
13dl.to - Similar to a-zmanga.
JPDDL - Similar to a-zmanga.
Japanese Media Recommendations List

Novels and Literary Texts¶

Anna's Archive
PeepoHappyBooks Torrent - Collection of 30000 unique epubs compiled from boroboro, itazuraneko, etc.
TMW Collection Torrents
Lolibrary
TheMoeWay Discord
Boroboro
Syosetsu Web Novels - Web novels. In contrast to Itazuraneko and Boroboro, which has retail books, this has only web novels and 二次創作 (fanfiction)
Kakuyomu - Similar to syosetu.
Hameln - Also similar to syosetsu.
Aozora Bunko - read Japanese classics. Books go on here if the author has died more than 50 years ago.
※ ッツ Ebook Reader - Japanese book reader that supports EPUB and HTMLZ. Text is displayed in 縦書き (vertical text) by default. This is one of the best options for an authentic experience reading Japanese books.
Japanese Media Recommendations List

Note: Gaining the Student rank or above in our Discord channel grants you access to more books than just these.

Visual Novels and Games¶

Nyaa.si visual novel search (SFW) - Nyaa.si has some visual novels, but you best use "Sukebei" nyaa.si (18+, NSFW warning)
RyuuGames - Has a ton of visual novels.
RyuuBlogger - Also has a ton of visual novels.
shinnku - Chinese website that hosts raw visual novels.
Anime-sharing - Has the most visual novels out of everything here. But you need an account and also a debrid service, and you need to search across duplicate threads to download anything from here. See here for premium leeches.
H-Suki
zi0.cc - Avoid games in the "汉化galgame会社合集" folder or releases with "汉化" in the name as those are translated.
TouchGal - Games tagged as "日本語" or "生肉资源" are in Japanese.
CraneAnime Upload List - Direct links to visual novels
Japanese PC Compendium - Site dedicated to retro Japanese computers that provides mediafire links to old games on various platforms. Check out the adventure category for VN-style games.
Sukebei Nyaa.si (18+) NSFW warning - NSFW side of Nyaa.si which should have a lot more visual novels.
Akiba-Online — Another DDL forum similar to Anime-sharing.
Hentai-Sharing — DDL site that clones releases from Anime-sharing. May have working links when the originals go down.
Hentai-Share — Another DDL site that copies releases from Anime-sharing.
VivaHentai4u — Same as above.
Otomi Games — Another DDL site.
Hentai4Daily — Another one.
Doujinblog — One more.
VNPocket (18+) NSFW warning - Play visual novel and RPG games online.
Internet Archive PC-98 Archive
Visual Novel Recommendation Lists
Japanese Media Recommendations List Note: visual novels on consoles do not have any NSFW content.
Visual Novel Club Resources Page (VNCR)

Console/Emulator

r/roms megathread - has more ROMs than the other sites
CDRomance Japanese PSP Games - PSP games
CDRomance Japanese PS2 Games - PS2 games
Softcobra Nint#ndo Sw!tch Games - Nint#ndo Sw!tch R#Ms
RoyalRoms (Gameboy, SNES, Genesis etc.) | Sort region by "Japan")
Emuparadise Workaround Tampermonkey Script - You can still download from emuparadise!
Jo-mako's Japanese Spreadsheet- This has video game and anime difficulty ratings and also video game scripts. This can come in handy when you want to play a retro game and the text may be too pixelated for an OCR.

Hook VNs with Textractor!¶

VN Guide

Audiobooks & Podcasts¶

Audiobook Collection - More audiobooks
Japanese Podcast Spreadsheet
Podcast Republic - Change the country to Japan and look at popular.
睡眠用ひろゆき

Subtitles¶

Kitsunekko Japanese subtitles for anime - Kitsunekko has the largest amount of Japanese subtitles. But avoid subtitles made by "kamigami", their subtitles may have transcription errors (I say "may", but in reality it is almost always).
Jimaku.cc - new site as a more secure alternative to kitsunekko
~~Itazuraneko Japanese subtitles~~
JP-Subbers drama subtitles
BritVSJapan Repo - From Netflix.
Japanese Movie Subtitles
**Whisper AI subtitle generator hugging face space
Fully Automatic Retiming of Subtitles

Condensed Audio¶

Immersion Environment & Mining¶

Video Content¶

mpv - "golden standard" video player many of the tools below use to play video.
※ AnimeCards - Animecards are very good for making sure you remember the words you learn from your immersion.
Yomine - makes the process of mining from videos easier.
Memento - Video player solution for looking up words and mining from anime.
asbplayer - Chrome extension that lets you put any subtitle on any video and mine from it.
Remove non-Japanese videos from YouTube

Ebooks¶

※ ッツ Ebook Reader - Japanese book reader that supports EPUB and HTMLZ. Text is displayed in 縦書き (vertical text) by default. This is one of the best options for an authentic experience reading Japanese books.

Android apps¶

Microsoft Edge Canary - Fastest browser on Android for Yomitan. Great paired with Ankiconnect Android.
※ jidoujisho - A mobile video player, reader assistant and card creation toolkit for Android.

iOS apps¶

Shiori Reader - Yomitan-like + card creation on iOS.
Manabi Reader - Alternative for Yomitan + card creation on iOS.
Immersion Reader - Japanese e-book reader with a fast dictionary look up feature.
10ten Japanese Reader - Similar in a way to Yomitan.

Manga¶

※ Mangatan all-in-one - Easy to use all-in-one solution for reading Japanese manga with automatic OCR for seamless Yomitan lookups. index.min.json file here
mokuro - Process manga to make it readable in browser with Yomitan.

Android apps¶

Mihon

iOS apps¶

Kantan Manga Reader - use OCR to read manga. It has Yomitan dictionary and EPWING support!

Visual Novels¶

Textractor - for copying text from visual novels.
JL - Yomitan/extractor/clipboard inserter alternative that does not require a browser.
Transparent texthooker overlay - allows you to look up words without alt-tabbing / switching monitors.
Magpie - Seamless fullscreen for visual novels on Windows. No need for exclusive fullscreen!
LunaTranslator - modern Textractor alternative.

Games¶

Agent - extensible script-based textractor that can be made to work with any video game / emulator. Requires manually made scripts in order to work (lots are available in the Agent scripts repository)
GameSentenceMiner - tool to make mining from video games/VNs extremely easy. Works with Agent/Textractor, but also has it's own OCR for clean output without a hook.

Misc. OCR tools¶

owocr - new ocr tool
meikipop - ocr based japanese popup dictionary - makes it easy to lookup words in manga, games, images. doesn't require any other tools or setup to work, but is not recommended for mining/srs integration
Manga-OCR - new program that makes looking words up in manga easier
OCR Reader - new program made to make reading physical novel scans easier.
Poricom Manga OCR - GUI for manga-ocr

Dictionaries¶

Yomitan¶

Yomitan, a browser add-on that allows you to look up Japanese words easily.

Get Yomitan - A pop up dictionary. You MUST have this. This is an absolute must have. It is extremely useful for reading.
Tutorial: click here
shoui Yomitan Dictionaries Collection
Marv's miscellaneous dictionaries
Every dictionary explained in the text file.

Mobile dictionaries¶

Android¶

Akebi - Bilingual dictionary for Android based on the JMdict project, has cool features such as auto-correction and AnkiDroid integration.
Takoboto - Bilingual dictionary for Android based on the JMdict project.
EBPocket Basic - this is an EPWING, Stardict and MDX dictionary reader, useful for monolingual dictionaries.

iOS¶

Shirabe Jisho - best bilingual dictionary
EBPocket Lite - free app you can use monolingual dictionaries on by transferring EPWINGs, MDicts, stardicts etc. with iTunes.
"Dictionaries" by 物書堂 - really good paid monolingual dictionary app. Official sources and has all the latest dictionaries.

Online¶

Jisho (bilingual) - If you are a beginner, use this.
Weblio EJJE (bilingual) - If you are a beginner, use this. Made for Japanese people. Useful for longer phrases that Jisho may not have.
Eijirou on the WEB (bilingual) - If you are a beginner, use this. Made for Japanese people. Useful for example sentences.
Weblio (monolingual) - Uses 実用日本語表現辞典, 大辞林第三版. The dictionaries this site uses are usable in my Yomitan and MDX dictionary pack.
日本語俗語辞書 (monolingual) - Monolingual slang dictionary. Available for Yomitan too.
Fuseji - uncensor 伏せ字 (i.e. words with 〇)
Forvo - Search for a word and hear it pronounced by a native speaker
OJAD - pitch accent dictionary.
Jiten.moe

MDict (MDX)¶

Contains the most up-to-date dictionaries such as 新明解国語辞典第七版 (Shinmeikai 7th Edition) and 大辞林第三版 (Daijirin 3rd edition)

Epistularum's Tidy MDX Collection v2.0 (Recommended) - You can selectively download. 国語 dicts are the ones you want.
Yomitan to MDX converted dictionaries by Androix
shoui MDX Collection (Japanese)

EPWING¶

Contains older but better known dictionaries such as 新明解国語辞典第五版 (Shinmeikai 5th edition) and 大辞林第二版 (Daijirin 2nd edition)

Epistularum's Tidy EPWing Collection (Recommended) - You can selectively download. 国語 dicts are the ones you want.
shoui EPWINGs Pack (Compact Edition) - best for mobile users - 117MB
shoui EPWINGs Pack (Standard Edition) - best for computer users - 2GB
shoui EPWINGs Pack (Full Edition) - for those that want it all - 9GB
See Applications section for an EPWING reader.

E-Reader Dictionaries¶

Kindle Dictionaries - Made by epistularum(エピス)#9370, includes StarDicts too.
Stardict/Kobo/KOReader Dictionaries

Metrics & Tracking¶

exSTATic - Immersion progress tracker
多読 Tracker - Visual novel reading stats tracker.

Difficulty Analysis¶

Jiten.moe - Inspired by JPDB.io, but more up to date and has more features. Recommended.
JPDB.IO - Japanese media word count and difficulty rating. Might help you in trying to pick what to read.
Japanese Media Recommendations List

Context & Sentence Search¶

Jiten.moe
Immersion Kit - Search sentences from anime, games etc. with translation. Made by Game Gengo.
Nadeshiko Like Immersion Kit but with a larger anime catalog.
Youglish - Sentences sourced from YouTube video subtitles. This is a great tool to improve your pronunciation, as the words will be said by native speakers speaking naturally.
Filmot - Like Youglish but with even bigger coverage. For best results, filter for manual Japanese subtitles and put quotes around your search term. Example query.
CaptionPop - Another YouTube subtitle search engine.
AxTongue - Yet another YouTube subtitle search engine.
コツ / コツ探索 - Search sentence audio from anime, audiobook, news, TV and YouTube. Features an auto-generated pitch accent graph visualizer.
Massif - Uses syosetsu novels as its source.
Yourei.jp "The World's Largest Japanese Sentence Search Engine"
X (旧Twitter) - You might need to be logged in to use this.
SentenceSearch - Sentences sourced from multiple learning resources. You can also grab audio for the sentences here!
BritVSJapan Repo- (Use the Repository search feature)
Kotonoha Corpus
BCCWJ Search
NWJC Search
Jisho.org - From tatoeba project.

Methodology¶

All Japanese All The Time - The reason why All Japanese All The Time, often abbreviated to AJATT, is still popular to this day, is because of the mindset building that it was able to achieve. The articles on that site can get you in the Japanese immersion spirit better than I or any other guide can.
AntiMoon - AntiMoon is a site made for English learners. It promotes learning through large amounts of input, also known as immersion. It has good articles on some of the practical methods used in immersion.
Donkuri Guide
An Alternate Way To Start Reading (by OrangeLightX)
Assorted JP Guides (by Chronopolize)
Why You Still Don't Understand Your Target Language - Great video for getting motivated to immerse more.