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(4.33/5)May 6, 2025
October 18, 2024
You’re likely better off reading a normal manga
While I enjoyed the cute and short bite sized adventures in this book, I initially picked it up as I saw it was targeted at first years and I wanted an easy read to get into native material. The reality is though, as a foreigner learning Japanese, my Kanji knowledge is way higher than that of a first year in Japan, but my understanding of the language and its grammar are way, way, lower. This made for a really more frustrating experience, as often I would know a word but have a hard time parsing
March 5, 2022
This was my first try at native material and found it a nice challenge at my level (slightly above N5) and fun read. The stories start out very simple and gradually build in text density. The only kanji is the 80 for first graders but the sentences were short enough that this wasn’t much of a problem. This is definitely easier to read than the regular Doraemon manga and has slightly bigger font. The language used is a lot of daily life stuff with a small amount of specialized vocab pertaining to
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Easy manga that’s worth a read
Language-wise this manga is not too difficult, but the main challenges will be lack of kanji and some casual speech. Luckily there is a book club on Wanikani to help with any grammar questions.
I felt that this manga was worth reading because of the cultural popularity of the Doraemon character; I always like reading foundational works for this reason. The episodes were pretty cute, but I probably wouldn’t go seek out more Doraemon volumes to read.