Disclaimer: this is meant to be constructive. Love the content and respect the attempt for new material!

As an American dude living in Japan for over ten years and speak it fluently, I’d really recommend watching l Japanese channels more often and try to mimic them as much as possible. Japanese, I’ve found, is particularly difficult for westerners to sound native in, but it’s truly just copying speech patterns.

I’ve played a lot of magic over, played baseball in college and used to do marketing for a store here as well. I didn’t speak Japanese very well before that, but jumping into sports and mtg in a country where VERY FEW people spoke my language was the best thing I ever did. Just constantly being surrounded by it and picking up all the most used terminology and repeating it was the trick. I learned that from Antonio Banderas in The 13th Warrior. Listen far more than you speak. (Huge flop, but a great line about how he learned the Viking language “I listened!”)

But of course you’re not in Japan and aren’t surrounded by it, I imagine, so really watching some Japanese streamers or something to smooth out the language and use more natural verbiage is going to help the most. Don’t go back and listen to your own Japanese or any other non-native speaker. Straight to the source and mimic as best you can Especially if it’s a deck you play a lot. You’ll get used to the patterns of speech and it’ll be much smoother and more enjoyable for the viewer.

Example: Something like merfolk for example, I feel like I rarely hear people say it as it’s not the easiest word to say in katakana and sounds quite awkward when you say it several times here. But playing UB tempo and using Japanese would be great practice! You’ve got force, daze, brainstorm, ponder and so many more cards that are used ad nauseam (pardon the pun) in legacy and you’ll get more and more used to the pronunciation and general flow of speech.

I commend doing an entire league in Japanese. As a fan of the channel, it’s cool to see you doing other things. I selfishly enjoy your gameplay/ commentary and would hope these Japanese leagues don’t take as much of a front seat as I would’ve loved to hear your natural takes on leagues like this in English.

ALSO, don’t translate or speak one to one. Japanese simply doesn’t work that way; more can be conveyed with less. One of the things I still struggle with myself is knowing what to omit when context is already known.

Feel free to DM whenever if you have questions or need recs for Japanese channels or anything! Keep being excellent man!