NaMei

To begin with I have not done any form of Japanese studying, my knowledge comes solely from anime. As I post this thread, I have finished my first 2 eroge ever. I got interested in eroge, but did not find any translated games that clicked with me, so I searched for a way to play untranslated games and I found text hooker. What I did was use Mecab and TA to change the text into romaji so I can read it. Surprisingly I could understand the majority of it. At the beginning I had to check the translation of words somewhat frequently, but now not nearly as often, a lot of kanji comes up very frequently so its easy to memorize them. I know you're gonna say, this method is not good, but somehow it worked for me, I did not experience any problems such as not being able to follow the story. Because I'm completely new to this, I picked games straight from Getchu's rankings , the first 2 I played were Hatsuyuki Sakura and Konosora. There weren't anything particularly difficult to understand so that may be the reason why it went smoothly.