I mean, in the end, whatever works for you works for you. Your profile indicates that you've learned Spanish to a relatively high level, so you obviously have experience with language learning. I just know the frustration of trying to consume material way out of my league before I'm ready for it, haha. But, I understand your reasoning. I was concerned you were expecting too much of yourself at this point, but perhaps not. It is certainly important to get used to seeing the writing in actual context outside of language lessons. Unfortunately, I'm not into manga, so I can't help you with resources, but I hope you find something that works!

Hi Steven. I don't take it disrespectfully at all. I am an extreme novice at Japanese, but my point of reading manga is to become more familiar with the Japanese writing system. I hand write the Kanas and kanji, and feel it would be good to also see them used in context (preferably in stories that I am familiar with). Sure, it will be a headache looking up everything in the dictionary and not understanding the majority of what I am reading, but we learn through familiarity. I want to familiarize myself with Japanese as much as possible, and also take part in the Japanese culture. However, I do agree with your point that I need to learn proper grammar and will look at your resource. Thank you for sharing this with me!

This isn't meant to be disrespectful, so I hope it isn't taken that way, but in my opinion you _really_ need to work on grammar before you're even close to ready to begin reading native level material like manga. Even the most basic sentences are wildly incorrect. I haven't left a correction, because I'm not a native speaker and wouldn't want to accidentally mislead you by making a mistake of my own. I recommend checking out Tae Kim's guide, starting from this lesson: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/particlesintro And here's an incredibly useful YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSyd8tXJoEJKIXfrwkPdbA Good luck.