I was desperate a little when the game made me type words in Japanese. But using the modern technologies, it is relatively easy to succeed there.

To complete the mini-game, you can use your smartphone and Google Lens app which is a system app on many Android devices (it can also be used in desktop Chrome btw, so the smartphone is not really required). You can run it via Google, Chrome, using Circle to Search gesture, or maybe Assistant/Gemini apps.

Please, figure out how to use it by yourself and do it the way you like (either on desktop or mobile). I decided to use mobile because AI search won't always appear to me on my desktop Chrome, idk why.

In the mini-game, there are always 4 words on the screen. When you successfully type the word, other ones change their size. As you can search words on the screen as their turn comes, capturing them one by one, I believe it is much more effective to find all 4 words from the screen, type them and then make another photo. It's up to you, piko-piko

So, the steps are:

1. Capture the screen and instantly pause the game
(you're able to pause the game via Esc. and it pauses the timer as well, so you don't have to hurry while searching for the translation)

2. Run your picture through Google Lens

3. Crop the image and search it along with the "in kanji romanized" query or sth like that

4. If the Google's AI search is available in your country, its window should pop up. IMO Google's AI is pretty good in fulfilling these kinds of requests!



The answer by AI usually contains romanized version you need in some brackets. And it's not always very accurate, e.g. sometimes you need to replace "ko" with "quo" when typing the word, so try different options. The main trick there is to use your brain.

By using Google Lens I was able to easily complete the first stage and now am heading to the next!

WIP: There I would write all the pairs that made me struggle. You can read them so you'd understand in which vector you should think.

• ko - quo
  
• n - nn, u - uu (at the end of words)
  
• ao - aio ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
  
• o - ou, o - oo
  
• seisui - eisui
  
• aiden - aidono

I hope this article was helpful.