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This game is too cool. Its absolutely awesome. It really makes you think and its tests you on how well you know the kana. I love it.

awesome :) add highscore? lol

Kana Invaders…

Check out this space invaders game for learning Hiragana and Katakana…

Domo domo!

Very good idea. We will have to release that in the next version.

Thanks for trying it out.

I absolutely adore this game. I have been trying to find something that will help me learn the symbols besides rote memorization and this seems to do the trick. The only thing I wish it had was a native speaker pronouncing the symbols as we blast them away, or just have a list of them at the bottom so we can make sure we are pronouncing them correctly!

Thank you!

thanks :D

awesomely addicting game, creating a youtube video about it now with a blog post coming next week.

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Groan…ha ha. Thanks for playing the game.

Thanks for this! My friend and I started learning katakana a couple of weeks ago, and now we're onto level 17 – almost there. This game has been enormously fun and helpful; can't wait to move onto hiragana.

I do have one suggestion; in the first levels of the game, just ka, ki, ku etc. are used, and then the “g” forms. This was useful as we knew the symbol we were looking at was one of a potential five, and helped us cement their images in our minds.

But in later levels, other symbols are used (the sa, ta, na lot) as well as the original five, so we weren't as confident in our guesses and became confused.

Would it be possible to incorporate newbie levels? For example, a level with just ha, hi, fu, he and ho and its variations with “b” and “p”, a level with na, ni, nu, ne and no, and so on for each set. This worked best for us when first learning the “k”s.

Thanks again for the game and the great site.

WOW, awesome game you have there. This game has definitely helped me a bit since I do have some basic knowledge. :)

I love this game! I am taking a japanese class and havent been able to read the katakana or hiragana but this has helped me soo much! Arigatoo!