Visual novels

[magnum]

Any visual novel fans around? I've found VNs to be a great source of native material, specially with a text hooker to extract lines from the script and some tool to look things up quickly in a dictionary. There's a guide for this kind of setup here (I don't use ATLAS, though; you're better off looking things up than trying to decipher some horrendous automatic translation). Besides the convenience of the setup, VNs are great for me because most dialogues are voiced, which I find easier to process than dry text.

The first VN I've read in Japanese was Hanahira!, and it's ideal for beginners: short, easy to read, and almost fully voiced. I'm currently reading Noble Works.

[amestyr]

I'm a fan too, i'm currently reading Tokyo School Life. I currently use Wakan as a dictionary.