Hi, I’m a (first year) student studying Japanese in university and summer break is starting to get near. I figured a good way to stay in touch with the language would be to read manga in Japanese! Manga is a big hobby of mine, as I’ve also slowly been building a modestly sized collection of my own (all in English though). So, I was wondering; does anyone know some good/simple series to buy in order to practice Japanese? All suggestions are very much appreciated!
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Starting with some simple children’s manga can help with this, or even picture books. I find Japanese picture books all the time at my value village. As for a good manga to look into right now, the manga adaptions of Ghibli films are super basic. Doraemon is probably the best bet for consistency.
I can recommend よつばと (yotsubato), it is funny, uses simple language and has furigana for all words.
im currently reading ふわふわシナモン (fluffy fluffy cinnamorol), super cute and great for beginners!
It’s not manga, but I think might be useful. １０分で読める伝記 １年生 (Juppun de yomeru denki 1) [https://hon.gakken.jp/book/1020498100](https://hon.gakken.jp/book/1020498100)
I bought the kindle version on Amazon Japan.
Doraemon!