--- product_id: 8766166 title: "Kanji in MangaLand: Volume 1 (Japanese in MangaLand Series)" brand: "marc bernabeveronica calafellalberto aldarabigea cassinelo" price: "¥10572" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/8766166-kanji-in-mangaland-volume-1-japanese-in-mangaland-series store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Kanji in MangaLand: Volume 1 (Japanese in MangaLand Series) **Brand:** marc bernabeveronica calafellalberto aldarabigea cassinelo **Price:** ¥10572 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Kanji in MangaLand: Volume 1 (Japanese in MangaLand Series) by marc bernabeveronica calafellalberto aldarabigea cassinelo - **How much does it cost?** ¥10572 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/8766166-kanji-in-mangaland-volume-1-japanese-in-mangaland-series) ## Best For - marc bernabeveronica calafellalberto aldarabigea cassinelo enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted marc bernabeveronica calafellalberto aldarabigea cassinelo brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Kanji in MangaLand: Volume 1 (Japanese in MangaLand Series) ## Images ![Kanji in MangaLand: Volume 1 (Japanese in MangaLand Series) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jFOL79ThL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book is not bad but not enough by itself to learn kanji. *by N***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2010* You can't use this book by itself to learn kanji because there aren't enough practice problems to get enough repeated exposure to absorb the kanji. But this book would be a good supplement to something else.The other thing you would need is something that would give you repeated exposure to the kanji. Some people use flashcards or Anki programs or jrpg. I am using jrpg, which is a homebrewed rpg game. It isn't very sophisticated but it is a good learning tool.I also used it with the nintendo game Kanji Kakitorikun (the first one not the second) and that worked out very well for me. Using Kakitorikun together with this series, I find I have really good retention of the on-yomi and kun-yomi readings and I am now familiar with many common compounds.The first Kakitorikun is ordered by grade level. The second version of kakitorikun is not. You can tell them apart because the front cover of the first game has a smaller bird than the second one. Kanji in Mangaland is also ordered by grade level. This makes it easy to use Kakitorikun 1 together with Kanji in Mangaland because you can do each grade level of this book at the same time that you do the matching grade level in the nintendo game. So far I have done first and second grades and I am almost done with third grade. It is slow going but worth it because by methodically going through each level, I am finding that these kanji seem second nature to me when I see them. I easily write them, too. But that is because of Kakitorikun not because of Kanji in Mangaland.Volume one of Kanji in Mangaland covers the Japanese learned in the first and second grades in Japan. There are 240 in this book.Volume two covers the third and fourth grade kanji. Something around 400.Volume three has not been released, yet. It seems that it is planned to be released in the first half of 2011. Volume three will cover fifth and sixth grade kanji--about 400.The diacritics (that differentiate 'ho' from 'po' from 'bo') are really tiny so it can be hard to tell whether some characters are, for example, 'bo' vs. 'po' or 'ba' vs. 'pa.' I am nearsighted. So I take of my glasses and squint and then I can see which it is. But some people are going to need one of those reading magnifying glasses to see the difference. But you can buy one of those at Walgreens for under 5 bucks so no big deal. I don't think it could really be helped actually because if the characters would have been made larger then all of the on and kun-yomi readings wouldn't have fit as nicely on each page. So just buy a magnifying glass and the problem is solved.Each chapter has a one page cartoon at the end of it. The cartoons are really stupid. I don't enjoy the cartoons. Not only are the cartoons stupid but they don't make enough use of the characters introduced in the chapter(s). But there is no reason that you need to use the cartoons. I just ignore them. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Could have been better *by J***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2011* I like the illustrations of the kanji in that they are easy to follow stroke order and count and there are examples of alternate ways the kanji can look and the usual example words. I'm not big on someone else's idea of a visual mnemonic but I'm sure it will suit some people. However, this is supposed to help learn kanji through examples pulled from manga. I'm not convinced these are real manga but the examples are there. The handwritten font style makes reading the kanji difficult and stroke count almost impossible. This shouldn't be a problem since there are furigana to help. I also have Japanese in Mangaland and it has one difference that makes it much better IMO than Kanji in Mangaland. In Japanese in Mangaland the examples are transcribed into hiragana, then translated literally so you see what the word actually is, then translated into common English. In Kanji in Mangaland, the manga examples are translated at the end of the chapter but there is no literal translation so the reader must tease out the stroke order or look up the hiragana in a dictionary to see what the kanji actually means in that context. I have two decent paper dictionaries and still have more trouble than I should translating the example sentence for myself. This makes the manga portion of the book practically useless. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quick Shipping *by I***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2020* The book shipped quickly and was in very good shape. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/8766166-kanji-in-mangaland-volume-1-japanese-in-mangaland-series](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/8766166-kanji-in-mangaland-volume-1-japanese-in-mangaland-series) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-11-15*