Passing JLPT N1 with the power of Nukige: My Study Method and Experience

It feels so unreal, I just passed the JLPT with a 117/180 result by playing almost exclusively nukige and reading doujins, literally. I promised some folks that I’d make a post here about my peculiar study method if I passed the N1, so here I am. This is how I used my otherwise terrible addiction as a tool to help me study this god forsaken language. This is how I jerked myself off to success.

A bit of background, I started studying Japanese around the beginning of the pandemic, so this was February 2020. So it’s been like what, almost 3 years since I started learning Japanese now. I’ve been an active member of the Dark Japanese Tower Discrod but still frequent this reddit as I’m a redditor at heart lol. Oh, and I’m addicted to pxrn if that wasn’t already obvious kek.

What is a nukige?

A nukige is usually a form of visual novel that is made with the intent of getting the reader off. It’s different from eroges or typical visual novels with ecchi scenes in that it’s not (usually) as story based or as long as the typical eroge. So no, games like Muramasa, MuvLuv and Oretsuba aren’t classified as nukige even though they have sexual content/ecchi scenes.

How did I study?

Anyways, with that out of the way, let’s get real deep into this meat. How did I study by jerking off all day? Well simply put, every single day (except days where I was stressed or tired) I’d be reading and using some form of nukige/doujin/NSFW ASMR to study, often for multiple hours on end. I’d basically edge myself while reading nukige as I wanted to see how the story progressed and all the H-scenes, which meant that some days I’d be edging for 7-8 hours straight. I usually had my texthooker attached to the nukige but I’d try not to search up words during these sessions as it was medokusai as fuck with one hand. Once I realeased, I’d usually delete the game immediately unless a) The story was really good or b) The scenes were really good. During these cooldown windows I would try to get ‘regular’ immersion in by reading a SFW book or eroge that I was not reading for the soul purpose of getting off.

What did I use?

Okay so you must be wondering, what’s the sauce dude?? Okay, a little disclaimer, although my main source of immersion was nukige, I did try to spread out my immersion sources when I was on cooldown by reading books and watching regular anime. But my insanely high libido and crippling pxrn addiction (help ;( I’m not kidding) meant that I’d be reading some type of nukige or doujin or listening to some form of NSFW ASMR. Vndb was my best friend for this, as there’d be days where I’d just be scrolling through the tags on there for hours looking for a new fetish or interesting tag. I’ve pretty much seen it all at this point kek. But I’d typically see some of the more challenging nukige literature wise in the domination/femdom nukiges. They typically have to be very descriptive in order to convey the absolute domination of the MC or the girls, which was pretty hot but also very interesting as well so I gravitated heavily to those type of nukige. I’d also lean more towards the isekai/fantasy world nukiges as they’d typically have a story that’s better than the average braindead 「ああああ、気持ちいい！！♡」and they’d use new vocab that I haven’t seen.

Why? Just why nukige man? Why not \*insert other NSFW Japanese media here\*

Honestly, I just liked them better. JAVs were pretty lame and it was the same words over and over. Hentai/eroani was alright but it was usually a worse version of the nukige counterpart (my god did they butcher Tenioha 2!). Doujins were usually my back up plan if I felt for a very niche category that barely had any nukige. And I’d usually listen to ASMR while I’m reading doujins to double dip for both listening and reading (Thanks Eyemeric!).

Downsides of the nukige method

One alarmingly bad downside of this method is that you go further and further down the porn addiction rabbit hole as you search for more interesting and niche nukige to read/use. Like im not joking, it’s pretty bad for me rn (just cycled through my futanari phase, now going through my 男の娘 phase hahaha).

Another downside is that you might be tempted to skip the plot so you can get to the ‘plot’. In my experience, what differentiates a good nukige from a great one is it’s story balance. If it’s a great one then it usually wont take more than an hour to get to the juicy bits so I usually make sure to patiently read without honking the hog in the beginning parts. Depending on how good this part is, I usually decide if I’m going to be paying full attention to the story pass the first H scene or not. Anyways, as long as the story is good, it usually adds a lot to the experience so you’ll stop skipping parts less and less as you develop as a taste for these kind of things. Also, if you focus on femdom nukige, you kinda have to read the story to get the full context on how the MC is getting slowly dominated so you can self-insert so, yeah.

Reccomendations

I would link my vndb profile here but it only has like 15 or so vns on the profile because I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty ashamed of some of the content I’ve read kek. I usually only rate nukiges that I deem as a 10/10 or so but whatever. On to my recommendations

M-Size Nukige

M-Size is a nukige developer company that is known for making, you guessed it, femdom nukiges. They usually make some pretty hardcore stuff so it’s definitely not for the faint of heart but the stories are next level. Some of my favorites from M-Size are:
\-育精

\-熟圧

\-変態性癖ドミナンス – Femdom of Paraphilia

Pinpoint Nukige

Pinpoint is another nukige company that makes stellar nukige for a variety of genres. I usually read a lot of their Hime-sama works that takes place in a medieval setting. They are usually more difficult than the average braindead N5 level stuff. Some of my favorites are:

\- 世話焼き奥さんで人の頼みを断れない亜衣さんにお願いして中出しハメ放題のドスケベ妻になってもらった (This is a 10/10 must read)

\- 姫騎士ド下品敗北人生

\- 王女＆女騎士Ｗド下品露出～恥辱の見世物奴隷

One last recommendation is てにおはっ！2 ～ねぇ、もっとえっちなコトいっぱいしよ？～. Tenioha is like, one of my favorite nukiges of all time and it’s what got me into nukiges tbh. I remember using clips of these back when pxrnhub had a lot of letsplays of nukiges on there and I’d use them daily kek. It’s just too fucking good, and the story isn’t hard at all.

Anyways, that’s pretty much it. I used all my adrenaline from passing the JLPT to pass this and I’m lazy as fuck so I wont be correcting any typos so sorry beforehand kek. You can find me over at Dark Japanese Tower (animecards discord) if you need me :). A big thanks to all of the members over there for allowing me to talk about the stuff I love and for pushing me to do this test haha.