>potentially live as a hobo
Anon is going to end up like one of those gaijin gutted for organs in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service LOL.
>right now i'm learning all the n5 nouns
I've always heard that you should start with grammar instead, since after that it's intuitive to learn new nouns and verbs by just listening.

I actually just finished working through the Michel Thomas foundational course a bit ago, good thing I downloaded these before they got nuked off youtube:
https://up.heyuri.net/src/6215.zip
It's an 8 hour pause-and-answer audio-lesson and it does a good job of actually getting you to start thinking in Japanese by the first lesson. I'd recommend it but I guess it's not enough to start catching up with anime or games straight away--in particular, you're only taught the polite verb forms with their simpler conjugation (-mas/-masen/-mashita) so I got totally lost hearing the casual verb forms for the first time.