Haha can you read Japanese though? It's beautiful for sure and it even feels a little different when reading it as if you're, in a way, sorta sounding about pictures. But man is it a pain in the butt to learn!
Growing up speaking German and learning Japanese later, while spoken English, German etc can be easily as beautiful as spoken Japanese, I have to say there's a beauty in the Kanji/Hanzi writing system that just doesn't have an equivalent in our languages.
I started out learning Japanese because I liked Japanese culture like a lot of people and never was a "language guy", but at some point I just got addicted to learning kanji. When you can start to just guess what a Kanji means and you don't even know why that's such a satisfying experience.
Think of kanji not as characters but as words (because they literally are) and you will realize English and other Latin/European languages share the same trait.
You speak German and English, so you can probably appreciate that you can "generally" understand other European languages even if you don't speak them if they share a common root like Latin. Kanji is like that.
Same, kanji is also the hardest for me, I have a much easier time learning new words by sound/hearing. But, I know some people that are the complete opposite & can't learn enough kanji, ymmv
