My interest of learning Japanese is rooted in comics and animations, particularly Doraemon and Detective Conan! They're so cool! Having attended the Japanese class for 3 days, I found it exciting to learn such an interesting language; they have Hanji but the meaning is just totally different from Chinese.
But the most difficult part by now should be memorizing the symbols or Hiragana! I hope more practices could result in better memorization.
がんばって! Ganbatte!