Japanese Immersion Guides
Tools are only half the story — these guides show the workflows. Each one walks a real immersion task end to end, using free software and no account to start, and points you at the よむ tool that does the heavy lifting.
New here? Start with the setup guide, then pick a workflow:
How to read manga in JapaneseThe free OCR setup for raw, image-only manga — tap words inside panels and get furigana.Mine sentences to AnkiTurn anime and YouTube subtitle lines into Anki cards with audio and a screenshot.Comprehensible-input YouTubeFilter YouTube into a Japanese feed, plus a levelled list of channels from N5 to N1.Yomitan vs Jiten vs JPDB vs AnkiWhat each one is for, and how to use any or all of them from one popup.A free Migaku alternativeHow よむ covers the core immersion loop for free, and where a paid suite differs.
How to use these
The guides assume the same loop everywhere: find Japanese you mostly understand, look up only what blocks you, and save the words worth keeping. You don't need to read them in order — jump to the one that matches what you're trying to do today.
If you haven't installed よむ yet, that's step zero for all of them: