>>32314556>>32314560Just start studying. Only takes a couple years, it's not like you're going to stop doing shit from Japan anyway.
There are weebs here that watch more subbed anime (and always will) than most of the actual native population but completely waste all that possible listening practice.
It was so damn common, especially with a straightforward series like this before worldwide release or multi-lang carts, for people to import just to get it seasons early, never going beyond that. I can't imagine I'm the only one that started to learn the language by replaying all the generations in a series that I once got through fine on attack power and type colors when I couldn't read any of it.
Shit once you can read kana, you can pop open a rom of the orig red & green in seconds. It takes surprisingly little effort if you're someone who's already doing manga, games, anime, music, whatever, to just transfer all that over to raw over a couple years, to say nothing of what comes when you can start doing shit from the pool of stuff that never even piques the most fringe of weeb scanlation groups, etc
