Want to learn more vocabulary for anime and manga? Maybe you want to play a Japanese game that hasn't been translated. Or perhaps you want to sing your favourite Jpop songs at the karaoke bar! If you're like me, despite taking Japanese classes and studying diligently, you still can't understand your favourite Japanese media. Why? Because 'real life' and 'conversational' Japanese uses different vocabulary, phrases, and politeness levels than anime and Jmusic. You may have to reach higher Japanese levels before you get to those words, but most learners will lose their motivation by then if they don't plan to move to Japan or work with Japanese companies. I wanted to create a solution, thus the Japanese Kanji Study Guide! My guide focuses on learning the vocabulary used in anime, manga, games, and music, and provides lots of reading material so you can familiarize yourself with these words. All documents comes with Japanese, romanji, and English translations so you won't need any other documents or dictionaries. No apps, no subscriptions. Everything is laid out in PDFs that you can read online or print for your own studying needs. So, what documents are included? 1. Kanji Study Guide This guide includes just over 500 kanji that you will see regularly in Japanese media. Under each kanji, there are 3-6 sentences using that kanji so you can practice recognizing it and reading it. Not only that, but many of the words will appear again under another word's sentences, thus helping with familiarity. While sentences were gathered online, I requested the help of 2 professional Japanese editors to ensure sentences are grammatically correct and natural. 2. My Japanese Media Dictionary This dictionary contains over 1000 words, including the words above and words that don't have or don't usually use kanji. The dictionary is organized alphabetically in romanji to allow easy searchability. If you hear a new word in anime or Jmusic, you can easily look it up and see what it means! 3. Video and Arcade Game Vocabulary List For you gamers out there, this short document will allow you to easily look up any new words that you see on the screen, both kanji, kana, and katakana words. Menu, HP, Item, Volume, Damage, Enemy, and so on can be found here! 4. Onomatopoeias (Sound Effects) List If you're a manga reader, you're going to see a lot of sound effects written in hiragana or katakana. If you're not Japanese, you're not going to be able to guess these. I realized there's no thorough list online, so I made my own which contains over 200 onomatopoeias, all organized alphabetically. 5. Jpop Song Title Translation & Analysis If you're a big Jpop music fan like me, unless you start learning to read kanji and understand the meaning of those words, it's going to be impossible remembering or finding the songs you like. To help you wrap your head around many popular titles, I have broken them down to help you learn new words and understand what the title means. BONUS: Additional FREE Resources Still want more reading material? I have gathered a few other websites where you can practice reading for free. This includes anime phrases and scripts, Jpop music translations, folk stories, and much more ^_^ DISCLAIMER: Do **NOT** buy this guide if you are a true beginner at Japanese. You should at least understand sentence markers, along with basic words (pronouns, family, date, time) and verbs (do, go, be, walk, read, study). You should also be able to read kana (hiragana and katakana) along with some basic kanji (numbers, pronouns, basic verbs) already. While this does have kanji and romanji side by side, it will not be breaking 'everything' down. This guide is to help you with interpreting sentences as you learn more media-focus words.