Same here, I know most hiragana and katakana but the kanji printed in some of the text books and manga destroyed me, so hard to read and differentiate.
tsu and shi are also a pain, especially since handwritten Japanese has so many variations of them. Almost impossible to differentiate if you don’t know the word.
I’m surprised they did this. Would have assumed most people don’t care and we were getting a PC PSN launcher very soon.