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Learning Japanese with VNs - A 2 Year Summary - r/visualnovels (via libreddit)
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Certainly the general formula is sound: learn basics then do some form of immersion. VNs are a bit more fiddly than something like anime, because of the technical overhead for setting up an efficient workflow, but visuals + sounds providing context is more helpful for the reader than a pure text medium.
I'm not sure if these "I had success with method X, copy me and so can you" posts are actually inspiring or rather discouraging (e.g. I put in K hours and I'm still not as good as you so I must be ....) But I think attempting almost any method is still worthwhile, and don't be afraid to quit if you don't enjoy it. The only advice I would give is to not follow a "pure" learn the kanji method, because knowing just kanji doesn't do you any good, and it's not fun either. As long as you're learning vocab along with kanji practice (even Wanikani does this) then I think basically any do X then (try to) immerse is viable.
Also, this post is a bit more stat-heavy than most of these tend to be, so it's kind of nice to look at from a "data is beautiful" perspective, anyway.