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tae kim is a relatively detailed grammar guide. it doesn't walk you through a ton of example sentences or drill vocab like a normal textbook might but it makes up for that just by hitting on a lot more grammar points than a textbook its size. It's more for setting up a foundation to learn from other sources and also just works nicely as a reference for pieces of grammar you find elsewhere. http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

genki is a series(?) of textbooks. I don't know much about it and have never used them myself but they seem fairly popular and are generally the first recommendation I see when people ask for textbooks to learn japanese. Actual intro japanese courses at universities and etc sometimes use this textbook. https://www.amazon.ca/GENKI-Integrated-Course-Elementary-Japanese/dp/4789014401

nihongoshark I have not heard of before but a quick googling shows it's a course, which I'm naturally a little distrustful of. I feel like the big benefit of courses is getting actual in-person speaking/listening/conversation practice, which you don't really get in an online course, and then it being a course means you're sort of restricted to a certain speed and order of progression that might not work best for you. It also has this really overly catchy homepage and stupid peppy terminology ("Hacking Japanese Supercourse"? Seriously?) which makes me think they're more about selling themselves than being an effective repository of information. Then again I've never used it so I could be totally wrong! https://nihongoshark.com/
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