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Bunpro and Katarineko: grammar points meet real sentences

Grammar is where "study" and "acquire" argue loudest. Bunpro drills the patterns; Katarineko shows them at work in sentences you chose to read. Run together, each fixes the other's weakness.

What Bunpro does that we don't

Bunpro is a grammar-point SRS: the patterns organized by JLPT level, each with example sentences and cloze-style reviews, cross-linked to the textbooks and guides that explain them. As a systematic map of Japanese grammar (what exists, what to meet next) it's excellent, and we don't attempt one.

What we do that Bunpro doesn't

A drilled pattern is a pattern you recognize on a test. Owning it means meeting it wild, doing its job in a sentence that's about something. Hover any phrase in one of our stories and you see what the grammar is doing (which particle carries what) in a sentence from your film's world. No grammar syllabus; every sentence explained at the moment you're curious.

How they combine in practice

Bunpro as the map, Katarineko as the territory. Meet a pattern in a story breakdown, then recognize it from Bunpro (or add it there). The next stories re-expose it naturally, and a pattern you've drilled and read is one you own.

If grammar drilling isn't your thing, the breakdowns alone carry you. That's the input-first bet: grammar study is scaffolding, not a prerequisite.

Statements about Bunpro describe its widely known core; check their site for current details. More pairings: your Japanese stack.