Tonight, I sent the last remaining kanji in level 60 to Guru.
If you look at my profile, you will note that I have highly prioritized kanji over vocabulary, so I am far from done with WaniKani. (I started playing a lot more games and stuff around level 30 so I started prioritizing my Anki cards over WK for vocab but I prefer learning my kanji on WaniKani). Even if I never do another lesson again - although I do intend on finishing everything - the prosect of burning all my remaining items seems really appealing to me.
That being said, the self-flaggelation inducing, burning desire that WaniKani has roused in my bosom is already grumbling for more kanji. I can feel myself losing control.
Fortunately, I have 32 kanji cards in my Anki deck that I have never reviewed before. But that’s like, what, one WaniKani level?
To be clear, I have a lot of catching up to do (not just in WaniKani!) and there’s enough pure immersion stuffs I could do to last me 100 lifetimes (watch me bomb N1 next month!!), but I just really, really like learning kanji, and I’m curious what other people have done to satiate their desire after completing WaniKani.
Read native material. Novels, manga, games, whatever. Aside from reinforcing what you already know, it’ll give you exposure to the sorts of extra things you’d need to know in order to actually make use of Japanese in a day-to-day context.
For me, it depends on what the reading material is. Games with mostly dialogue are quite different from novels using prosaic language. Prosaic novels are different from the topics they talk about on a show like コンフィデンスマンJP.
I think a good way to encounter new kanji might be to move to different topics and genres. If you’re playing games based on military stuff, different words will be common than when you´re reading a wordy novel about a tailor. Some words and kanji will only come up with certain topics.
If you have a personal interest or hobby, dive into that world and you will learn new kanji specific to that area. Science, Sports, Aviation, Weather, etc. At some point you have to realize Kanji are an ends to a means and not the end themselves, unless you want to go after the 日本漢字能力検定.
I love learning kanji too! I made a kanji drawing deck with all the Wanikani kanji and keep adding more kanji as I encounter them in the wild. I have added about 300 kanji so far.
But I don’t recommend learning kanji for the sake of learning kanji. Just read stuff and see what kanji you encounter. It’s a lot more rewarding that way IMO.
Congrats on making it to level 60! And good luck on the N1. Whether you pass or not, there’s a huge benefit to your learning by taking a test like that. It gives you a much more solid assessment of where you are: confidence in what you know and knowledge of where you need to go.