Teach me how to play Langrisser Millennium DC.

This is the one game I could never get into due to how different this game is compare to every other Langrisser games I have played up until this point, considering majority of you seem want this game to be part of Mobile, I figure there might be some of you who know this game better than me (Or maybe you are the more legit fan than I am).

Which character should I start with? How to navigate this map? How to combat? How to recruit the characters? Do I need to get really good at Japanese to know this game? What? Who? And How?