Here's my progress:
I used this as my basis to start:
https://learnjapanese.moe/guide/Memorized most of the kana within a few weeks using
https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/Anytime I had some free time or on my phone, I'd have a tab just constantly memorizing characters. I started with just the vowels, then added the K's, then the S's and so on until I covered the entire set. This was 3 years ago and I still make the occasional mistake with reading
シ vs ツ vs ッ
ソ vs ン
ワ vs ウ
I watched a few of the beginning Cure Dolly videos. Most of it didn't make sense at the time, but the most important one was her explanatory video of particles (が, は, の, に, を ) since that helped me wrap my head around how Japanese sentences are formed
Then I jumped onto Anki N5 deck as suggested by the guide. I got through that in a couple months, with 10 words a day. After that, moved on to the N4 deck. Mid-way through, I wanted something on my phone so I downloaded Ankidroid and used the Core 2k for Visual novels deck. Took about a year and a half to complete all of that, and during that time, I was doing Anki everyday for about 30mins - 1.5hrs
My main source of immersion is reading raws from nhentai. Most of the simple doujins have easy dialogue to read, and I get to learn new vocab on common words used that were somehow not in any of the anki decks I had, like 孕む, 妊娠, or 勃起
I constantly have
https://jisho.org/ open on my phone so I can look up words if I feel like I'm in the reading mood.
My progress has mostly halted, since I haven't been diligent with continuing the rest of the guide (mainly immersion and building my own Anki deck). Maybe I'll pick it up again someday, but for now, I just stick with the anki reviews and the hentai.
