Chrome extension · Japanese Netflix

Learn Japanese from the shows you're already watching.

Pause on any line that flies past you, get an instant breakdown, and save it as a card you'll actually see again — without leaving the scene.

10-day free trial · No credit card · Exports to your Anki deck

Cozy ramen shop at night 諦めない。もう一度やってみる。
N4 · easy

I won't give up. I'll try one more time.

諦めないwon't give up もう一度one more time やってみるtry doing

📌 ない makes the verb negative — "won't" instead of "will"

Works with your Anki deck

One-tap export to the deck you already review.

From N5 to N1

Start as soon as you can read kana. Works all the way to intermediate.

Remember what you watch

Every line you save becomes a card you'll actually review.

Made by learners, for learners

Built by people who went through exactly this.

You're watching.
You're not mining.

Immersion only works when the hard sentences become review. But the path from a line you half-understood to a card you'll actually see again is full of friction, so most of it never gets saved.

  • Japanese subtitles move faster than you can parse them.
  • Copying a line off Netflix is a fight with the player.
  • You look up a word but lose the context of the whole sentence.
  • A dictionary explains the word, not the sentence around it.
  • Contractions, dropped particles, and slang aren't in the dictionary.
  • Building one clean Anki card takes longer than the scene did.

Three taps from a line you missed to a card.

  1. 1

    Click the line you didn't catch

    See a line you don't get? Click it. No pausing, no copy-paste, no leaving the scene.

  2. 2

    Understand it instantly

    A short English read, furigana, and every word colored by its grammatical role, plus the one grammar note that makes the line click.

  3. 3

    Keep it as a card built for Anki

    Save in a tap. Reading, meaning, and the full scene are already on the card — ready for the deck you review every night.

It fits the way you already study.

You already have a system: a deck, a dictionary, a backlog of shows. KIKUGO is the one missing piece: the fast path from a real sentence to a clean card. Nothing more, and deliberately so.

What it is

  • An Anki & CSV exporter for sentences you mined yourself
  • Grammar & usage notes baked into every card you save
  • Sentence-level context for lines a dictionary can't explain
  • A tool that gets out of the way once the card is saved

What it isn't

  • A course with lessons, levels, and a syllabus
  • A passive translator that dumps English over the video
  • A replacement for your deck (it feeds it)
  • One more tab to manage while you watch

Start free. Keep going for less than a coffee.

Save 40% with yearly billing ($72/year) — or pay monthly at $10, or try Pro free for 10 days, no card required.

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Pro — Yearly

Save 40% · $72/year

$6/mo$10

Billed yearly — $120 $72/year

  • Unlimited click-to-explain
  • Unlimited saved cards
  • Unlimited translations
  • Unlimited one-tap Anki & CSV export
  • Grammar & usage notes on every card
Get Pro yearly

Pro — Monthly

$10/mo

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

  • Unlimited click-to-explain
  • Unlimited saved cards
  • Unlimited translations
  • Unlimited one-tap Anki & CSV export
  • Grammar & usage notes on every card
Get Pro monthly

Free trial

$0

10 days, full access. No card required.

  • Everything in Pro, free for 10 days
  • No credit card to start
  • Click-to-explain on Japanese Netflix
  • Save & export unlimited cards
Start free — no card

Before you install.

Does it only work on Netflix?

For now, yes — Japanese Netflix on desktop Chrome.

What can I learn from?

Anything on Netflix with Japanese subtitles: anime, dramas, reality, films. If it's on screen in Japanese, you can learn from it.

Is my viewing private?

Yes. KIKUGO only ever looks at the one subtitle line you click — never your account, your history, or what you're watching.

What level is this for?

Built for roughly JLPT N5–N1 immersion learners who already read kana. If you're sentence mining from native content, you're the target.

How do cards get into Anki?

Saved cards export to a clean CSV (and Anki-ready format) with the sentence, reading, gloss, and notes already filled in. Import once, review forever.

読んで、覚える。

Tonight's episode is full of cards.

Install in 30 seconds, open something Japanese, and click the first line that flies past you.

Try free for 10 days

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