Follow Casey on Twitter, where he was happy when he learned enough Japanese to read Kimagure Orange Road in its original-language form.
Once upon a time, it was pretty much a given that any serious anime/manga fan would at least wish they could speak and read Japanese.
But while patience is usually a virtue, sometimes it can cause problems too, which is why a foreign friend of Japanese Twitter user @manndamm started studying Japanese.
‘I was talking to a Japanese girl about a manga we both like, but the Japanese version is a year ahead of the overseas release, and so she ended up giving away some gigantic spoilers.