A huge upside of studying Japanese is that there is a wealth of high-quality content you can use to study, like music or TikTok. A lot of this content comes from the world of Japanese animation, which only grows more popular with each passing year.
There’s likely already an anime to suit your interests: high school rom-coms, heroic adventures in fantasy worlds, historical mysteries, supernatural horror, sports and pretty much anything else you can think of (and a lot that you can’t).
The downside, however, is that there are a lot of obstacles that come along with using アニメ (anime) to study. まず、多くのアニメは日本語初心者にとって難しすぎる (Mazu, ōku no anime wa Nihongo shoshinsha ni totte muzukashisugiru, Firstly, many anime are too difficult for beginners at Japanese). That’s not to discount the benefits of passively absorbing Japanese, but this can be a major obstacle. また、アニメの日本語は全然現実的ではない (Mata, anime no Nihongo wa zenzen genjitsuteki dewa nai, Also, the Japanese in anime is not at all realistic).