Caesar_Red asked:

Hi Calamus, wanna ask you two questions, the first is one that i now that is against rules, but i know you will response anyway because you are a kind person who likes to help people (also i want to ask you specifically) ¿Do you recommend learn only the meaning of the kanji and no the readings? my only purpose is learn to read japanese, no speak or anything else.

Second question, i read in some vndb review a theory about you being Nephrinn (Dark Translations) ¿is this true?

And last i wanna say that when i see the reddit page of visual novel releases and see your name i feel so proud and zestful, like "We are here"

You don't really have to bother learning all the various readings when you're only focusing on kanji. You can learn them well enough organically as you memorize vocabulary. Just make sure that you do learn most of them somehow: You can't get by merely on memorizing the shapes of words, when you're talking about a language that arbitrarily (or stylistically) switches between character sets. There's also a problem that you absolutely will encounter—I've had to deal with this many times, even in the professional works I'm translating—where the characters of a word will be misconverted into a homophone of that word. When you see that, you'll need to have the reading of the right characters or word in mind, so you can identify what it was supposed to be. That also goes for the kanji replacement puns that the Japanese seem to like so much.

I'm not Nephrinn, but people still seem to think I am. It's understandable, because I started out very much trying to imitate him, and I ended up with a similar kind of style, making similar kinds of mistakes. Nephrinn seemingly disappeared into the ether as his momentum on KS2 petered out. The last sign I saw of him was an indication on his HongFire account page that he was still logging in from time to time. I never saw him publicly answer questions about whether he was still around or not.