The first time I tried learning japanese was because of anime and, i kind of crashed and burned (when textfugu was still a baby). Then I picked it up again, because I thought it sounded pretty and I have no other hobbies. And I’m loving it! Some of my friends still don’t understand that I’m doing this as a hobby though and not to watch anime.

I use something called a buddha board (I think this is what you want) it’s good if you just want to practice committing a sentence to memory, but you would have to wait for for the water to dry to write more. http://www.buddhaboard.com/