_____Cait posted... Id also stay away from anime, and veer towards dramas if you want to watch stuff. Anime Japanese is. Never how people here actually speak. Youre going to embarrass yourself if you mimic that. The morning dramas are good if you can stomach them.
Its really hard to find good ways to learn Japanese, as hardly anyone outside Japan speaks it, but boy do so many internet people and youtubers love to think they are fluent because of anime. Please focus on what people who live there, or foreigners who have lived there ( not toured there) suggest.
This is bad advice imo. Just because you use anime for immersion doesn't mean you'll speak like an anime character. I don't speak like a sitcom or cartoon character just because I learned English watching Cartoon Network and Friends. Even if you were to pick up a bad habit or two, they get corrected pretty quickly once you start using Japanese in a real life setting.
Here's a video as an example, (around the 1:05:00 mark you can listen to them speaking Japanese if you want).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WUpJ-Wh34
The three dudes on the left are all foreigners who have lived there in the past or are currently living and working there and they all say immersing in whatever is fun for you (even if that's anime) is the way to go, they all immersed with manga, anime, VNs, you name it.
In my experience, people who do things that aren't fun for them for the purpose of learning a language are the ones most likely to quit. Your first worry as a language learner should be being understood, not whether or not you're embarrassing yourself.