Harry Potter (film series)

Pros

• That's why something like Harry Potter is a great recommendation for a first series of books. Same subject, same author, progression in difficulty and length, uses the same kinds of language.
• as I have always loved fantasy in other mediums (games, movies, etc) and from books I read a lot as a kid (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, etc)
• I mostly got by reading Naruto and Harry Potter. Then I started reading stuff originally published in Spanish.
• After i got to a point where i could read manga/comic books and Harry Potter in spanish, i stopped doing vocab, period.
• I learned all new words in a chapter of Harry Potter while listening to the chapter repeatedly until I understood all of it. This combination of encountering words in Anki and in content _repeatedly_ works great for me.

Cons

• Harry Potter is a fairly high level of book.
• I learned japanese from harry potter after studying grammar blogs for a few weeks. It was a horribly slow slog, needed to read the first book a few times over again before things finally started making sense but from there it was much ea...
• It does not matter if "Harry Potter" is popular, or interesting: if the book uses C1 vocabulary, then A2 readers can't understand it.
• Harry Potter is okay, but it can get annoying because of the transliterated names.
• Harry Potter: JK Rowling sucks and it'll teach your kids to love shopping but the kids love it still anyways.