I’m just another voice for reading as soon as you can (depending on your tolerance for ambiguity and frustration). Picking manga with furigana is a great way to get started without needing to know kanji. If you do start reading, I also highly recommend joining up with some of the book clubs, such as the Absolute Beginner’s Book Club or the Beginner’s Book Club.
The ABBC is currently reading ハピネス(Happiness), and just barely started on the 5th of March, so there wouldn’t be too much catch-up to do if you decided to join!
The BBC is just about to start 夜カフェ on March 26th, which is a light novel, as opposed to a manga, but it does have furigana, and from the skimming I’ve done while working on the vocab sheet, it is very accessible. I know that light novels look like a lot more text, but keep in mind that you’ll run into a lot less colloquial stuff than you will in manga (given that manga is pure dialogue), so some find it easier to read light novels in spite of there being a higher text density per page.
I notice that your profile picture is Nino from 五等分の花嫁. I am personally reading that series on my own, apart from a book club. If that’s a series you might be interested in starting at some point, I shared some thoughts on the difficulty level of it in the comments of the ABBC thread.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there are also a bunch of spin-offs from previous book clubs and the like, and oftentimes, even if you are coming into a club that’s already finished, if you post a question in those threads, you’re still likely to get an answer! So if any of the current picks or nominations don’t strike your fancy in the clubs, you can check out the Master List of Book Clubs and see if any of those listed there are more your speed!
Another place to start besides manga or light novels would be Satori Reader. I haven’t used it much myself since I came across it after I’d already started reading more difficult things and just haven’t carved out the time to check it out a bit more, but I hear a lot of positive things about it as a good place to start getting some reading!