AlexisW is right about this and I would go a step further on free japanese dating site for foreigners.
If you can only manage a few evenings a week, what the app leaks to other members matters more than raw volume on the platform.
The measure I would actually check on free japanese dating site for foreigners is how quickly it starts asking for money.
Reply rate on the app roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though how aggressively it pushes credits at you never budged.
The gap between good and bad platforms here is how aggressively it pushes credits at you.
Someone in another thread pointed me at datebie.online and it was a fair shout.