My book finally arrived yesterday! I haven’t tried reading it yet, but I did want to get a handle on how much of the kanji would be familiar, and how much would be new. So naturally, I put some stats together!
There are 150 unique kanji in the first story. As you can see from the histogram below, most of them are found in the first 10 levels of WaniKani.
If you’re used to using WK Stats, you might find the following breakdown by level useful. It’s the percentage of kanji you should know based on your current level.
Naturally, this doesn’t mean that you’ll recognize the vocabulary, but if you were on the fence about participating, just know that by the time you reach level 8, you’ll already know half of the kanji in the first story. Not too bad!