Making Japanese Learning
We believe that learning a language should feel like play, not work. Neko Sensei builds apps that help you learn Japanese in ways that are fun, intuitive, and actually stick.
Meet the Team
A small team passionate about making Japanese easy and fun to learn.
ようこそ！
Welcome!
Rom S.
Founder & CEO
よろしくね！
Nice to meet you!
Ayami K.
VP Operations & Creator Relations
いいね！
Nice!
Joseph A.
Software Developer
Why I built Neko Sensei
I fell in love with manga pretty early in my Japanese learning journey. But honestly, it was also the most frustrating part.
The beginner stuff I could actually read? Boring. Like, really boring. Simple stories that felt more like textbook exercises than real manga. And the manga I actually wanted to read, the ones with amazing stories and real dialogue, were way too hard for me.
So I’d do this awkward dance: read a panel, get stuck, open Google Translate, copy the text, try to make sense of the result, maybe ask ChatGPT for help, then scroll back to find where I was. Over and over. It completely killed the rhythm and honestly, it just stopped being fun.
I kept thinking, why doesn’t something exist that just lets me read the manga I love with help built right in? No switching apps, no copy-pasting, no losing my place.
So I started building. And the further I got, the clearer it became that the thing standing between me and the stories I wanted to read wasn’t grammar. It was words. Thousands of them, and no good way to keep them in my head.
That’s where Neko Sensei starts: a vocabulary app that shows you each word right before you’d forget it, built around the words you actually want to know. The manga reader is still coming. But the words come first. Learning Japanese should feel like play, not work.
Rom-さん
Founder & CEO