it is! i was first experimenting with implementing brighter accents like the yellow and pink on your profile, but decided it was too hard to make them work (ノ>▽<。)ノ and i prefer pastel colours anyway.
what are you watching nowadays then? it's not a bad thing to drop a series if you can't get into it imo. i do it all the time. time is scarce so i only spend it on the series i really like - but admittedly generally i like everything at first, so i still end up watching a lot, haha.
hm, hiragana are still relatively easy to learn luckily c: and once you got them figured out you can already start reading a lot! or at least everything that has furigana (。 >艸<)