wee arn't saying you're gonna fail. wee arn't saying you learn it to watch anime. but you have to set more goals. liking japan? loving the country? people usually are satisfied with just one vacation in tokyo. that's no reason, dood.
whatever you say, you understand yourself better than us. :P

wee're only saying it's hard, if you don't have a certain requirements. if you do then go ahead, either do it my way, or take night classes. I'm sure those exist.

to be frank here. my reason at first was pretty simple, to play games, instead of hoping for a translation patch. but then it gets more complicated.

so yeah, set more goals for yourself. save up for an actual japan trip, make some japanese friends. play some japanese MMOs.