OK guys, I guess I'm bumping this thread because I'm attempting to get back into the groove of learning Japanese. So hopefully there's other people that are still interested in it!

What's the point? It's a xenophobic overcrowded place. Why do people think someone wants them there?

I don't get discouraged from learning a language that easily

あなたは翻訳を使用することができますが、私はそれが動作するとは思わない

I doubt this is correct.^^

Hmm, I guess it could be phrased a bit differently, but I'm very rusty so I can't exactly say. However, I'm wanting to learn it for stupid reasons, one of them being to play Japan-only video games

Chinese is originally up to down, but they also write left to right.

The chinese characters are just another level of vocabulary you have to learn. Not only how a word is spoken, but also how it is written. The symbols itself can be broken down into radicals that look always the same, so a character is basically a composition of radicals and some additional lines. I wouldn't say it is easy, but it is definitely manageable.

Better learn korean since it doesn't requre chinese characters since the begining at your face. Chinese characters are still used in Korea but for the average learner youc an deal with the lanchage without chinese characters.

I don't mind learning Kanji, it's tough yeah, but it's not impossible.

But korean shares similar structures to japanese like Subject-Object-verb and similar marks like topic/object ect. When you get used to korean it becomes easier to digest japansese.

japansese fucked up the way they intrudoced chinese characters because the same characters in japansese can have different readings, its counterpart in chinese will always have the same reading.