Virtual YouTubers are more effective than anime for learning Japanese because they use real conversational language and mannerisms.

“it's actually really helped my Japanese way more than watching anime”

Formal university Japanese classes are an inefficient way to learn the language and self-teaching is preferable.

“me and Connor have gone very different routes in terms of our how we've approached learning Japanese because you've taken classes and I'm like completely like self-taught because I realized in university how classes really like slowed me down in terms of my learning process”