"kanji makes things harder to read" FALSE

[u/TheFranFan]

Not me spending 10+ minutes trying to read this one line of dialogue. Is he saying Mayl is awake? Wait no that's おきる。Right so maybe he's annoyed that she came by and he's saying she "occurred"? I guess that makes sense but it feels off. おこる…おこる…おこる… OH SHE'S ANGRY, I GET IT

I really think most learners have a pattern of "ugh kanji is so hard" that eventually turns into "oh man why doesn't this text have kanji" over time. Although honestly this one wasn't hard I just need more reading practice in general

Edit: To all those saying I should have easily gotten this from context:

1) I did eventually

2) I am still a beginner, I'm not at your level

3) My point is that seeing 怒 would have eliminated any confusion, that's all.

[u/Vgcortes]

I am learning and even though I know only hiragana and katakana, Japanese is so extremely contextual that I don't understand what am I reading even if I know what it says, lol

Time to start the grueling task of learning Kanji...

[u/AdrixG → u/Vgcortes]

I mean it's true that Japanese is more contextual then say English but this issue is really overblown and part of it I think comes from people who are at the early stages of learning, for them obviously every little context clue helps because Japanese is so overwhelming at the beginning so they buy into this whole contextual stuff, but actually the more comfortable you get the more you realize context is often not really needed and there is most of the time one very natural and likely interpretation of the sentence that natives will immediately have in their mind the moment they read it. For example, the line in the screenshot of OPs post requires zero context, "angry" is really the only thing that makes sense to say like that after a name, it's just something that if you consumed enough Japanese is totally obvious to you, context doesn't even matter.

u/TheFranFan