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falayyou01 posted...

I've got this book of the 2000 most used Japanese vocab words which I'm working my way through. I've heard the recommendation of learning vocab instead of kanji from others too, so that's what I'm trying to do. Can you recommend some good very basic beginner manga to start with for vocab and sentence patterns?

Yeah that is a good thing to go through to have some basic knowledge to aid you in starting to read. No matter what its going to be a bit painful at first starting manga, but with that it should make it not TOO bad.

My recommendations would be Yotsuba&! (this first) and Ika Musume (this second as its a small step up in difficulty) for being about as easy as it gets for manga. It helps that Yotsuba is genuinely great and entertaining. Once you go through these two Id just try any shonen manga that looks interesting. I did To-Love-Ru and then Nisekoi. Neither were too hard.

Eventually once you read enough manga you might want to move to visual novels.