I prefer them over have a Hiragana only text x)
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Well said, I couldn’t agree more!
I second this recommendation! Just watching him write kanji is pleasant and relaxing. 
Especially when he uses gel pens, my favorite kind!
Also on the topic of loving kanji, I recommend checking this thread:
Here’s my favorite post from that thread:
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Every time I’m able to understand a text that has a very difficult appearance i feel happy and proud, also during Japanese class I’ve suprised my teachers several times with my Kanji knowledge which feels extremely rewarding.
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I love to draw so I was first attracted to Japanese because the kanji was so pretty. It was the first part of the language that I wanted to learn. Before I started learning Japanese I would often look up Japanese kanji just to write pretty things in my notebook.
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I love them. I really do. That’s why I go beyond WK and learn even more.
I had never dabbed into such thing before, so it was as though lighting had stricken me. At first, they were rather overwhelming, but I still liked them. Now I have more familiarity and they don’t scare me anymore. Only love remains.
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I’m still in the early stages of kanji learning so I don’t have as much experience with them as others do (yet), but I find them super cool. Not only can they can look so beautiful and complex, but I really like that they’re able to communicate ideas and words in a different manner to what Im used to really.
I’ve also always found memorization fun so I enjoy learning new kanji. Plus the sense of accomplishment I feel when I recognize kanji is really nice too !
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Well, they look really cool. So that makes them cool to me, and I like to know about cool things. Kind of like collecting cool rocks
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I love both Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.
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Of course, Kanji are great to learn for Japanese studies, but it also opens the door for studying Chinese as well 
so the more Kanji you understand, the more you can make comparisons between the two languages. That being said, not everything is read the same using the same Kanji or means the same thing, but those are the things that interest me
I also agree with the frustration of trying to read kana texts, it is just so much easier to read texts with Kanji included.
I also enjoy writing Kanji when I struggle to remember them, to pick apart radicals and find my best way to memorize them. Calligraphy also intrigues me, but I’m just not that great at writing yet.
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Many natives love kanji! But for us non-native learners I think it’s a matter of personality type or just learning style. For example I (almost) love kanji, and I find that in a few years time I’ve gotten better at reading Japanese than most other learners like me. I find that most people love speaking and listening, but not me - I’m a visual learner. If you’re more auditory, then kanji (which is pictures) will be hard for you.
The skills are reading, writing, speaking, and listening - and all of us have our strengths and weaknesses.
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Is “love” a strong enough word? I’m not sure it would convey my relationship to kanji, which is probably dangerously extreme.
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I love kanji because of how they feel like tools for building. You can break them down to their parts, which have crazy long lineages of use. You can extract meaning or hints of meaning and sometimes even the readings just from the parts. Even when whole, there’s a certain degree of being able to mix and match them together for new words and I love the way the words come together.
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While I certainly don’t love everything about kanji — knowing that I’m not even 1/3 of the way through WK yet gets a little overwhelming sometimes — I do love the color and depth they bring to the language. It’s seeing that がっき isn’t just a random collection of sounds that means musical instrument, it’s 楽器 a “comfort container”. Or 無茶 — no tea? That’s absurd!
And since you are looking to be able to connect with high school kids, a lot of manga/anime characters have names with kanji that reveal something about their personality, you might be able to use that.
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Am I missing something? I can’t find where that’s said
Thank you for saying this, I find this especially true and down to earth for me, not as a Japanese but an English learner. English was my first foreign language and I found it fascinating how the grammar and word forms come together to make a sentence. And the fact that you can guess what a word means by looking at its word form and using your knowledge of certain related words is also brilliant to me.
Like you, I’m also a visual learner and i love reading and learning new words so much. I’m basically a word nerd, my friend once saw me “reading” a book by laying a notebook and a dictionary next to it and asked me if i’m “out of my mind”, but if it hadn’t been for that my vocab wouldn’t have proliferated, which helps significantly to this day. So sorry not sorry 
But in exchange my speaking is quite… abnormal lol. I often use the first words that come to mind so sometimes they could sound too formal or out of place in a sentence. But we all have our own strengths don’t we 
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OP wrote it earlier in the thread
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What is love? Baby don’t durt me, don’t durt me no more.
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The first person who popped up in my mind is Uncle Hanzi.
Actually, 楽 does have “music” as one of its meanings and 器 has “instrument” as one of its meanings, so 楽器 just means “music instrument”. Wanikani only teaches the most common meaning of a kanji, but kanji actually can have multiple meanings.
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Spoilsport 
And in a way my point still stands. Because of kanji, japanese has a connection between comfort and music that doesn’t exist in English