Haha, I’m glad I’m not the only one. While reading the thread earlier, I just couldn’t remember…
Thankfully, past @Naphthalene to the rescue! A quick search on the WK forum helped me find a post from 3 years ago where I talked of my first manga. I’m just going to copy that part of the post, since it feels relevant (edited with the Natively link)
Sooo, my first attempt was
stupidsuboptimal. I went with a manga called WORKING!! (series) | L22. It has no furigana and since I was between N5 and N4 at the time, you can imagine I had a hard time. It was nice to learn how to use the search by radical feature of the online kanji dictionary I was using at the time. Then I pretty much had to look up everything. It felt satisfying, though, so I didn’t feel compelled to give up. I do remember having to stop at times because of getting massive headaches from the mental strain, though.
My first novel attempt came much later. It was the first volume of the 青い鳥文庫 edition (so full furigana) of 獣の奏者 (series) | L33. I had passed the N2 at the time (barely) and I had a rough time (it took me around 3~6 months to go through it, I can’t remember exactly).
