I’m aiming on doing something similar, but sometimes work is really demanding so I don’t even have 5 minutes D:
Thanks for sharing your study method! I didn’t know there was so many different was to go through with WaniKani ahahaha
I’ll probably join it too ahahah!
Ooops, my mistake! I meant to say lessons, not reviews! 
I see, so maybe I should do focus a bit more on the lessons and just power through with the reviews, since it would help me keep motivated and learn faster too. Sorry, I might have worded myself wrong earlier and I also might be confused with the whole terminology of things since I’m new to stuff.
I’ll try and find the balance and keep learning new things and also have a nice amount of reviews to avoid being overwhelmed.
I’m starting to be able to read stuff on the lighter end of the shounen spectrum, but the vast majority of it is still beyond what I can process quickly. (Technically, Yotsuba counts, but it’s a special case, since it goes to reasonable lengths to ensure that all of its characters speak at mostly age-corresponding levels of complexity and abstraction, and most of it follows a five-year-old who’s picked up, but doesn’t fully understand, teenish words, focusing on her interactions with others, who often have to explain things in simple terms)
I think the guide’s right when it says to wait until around level 20 before trying to really get into something. Shoujo, if you don’t find it offputting, also seems to be easier than shounen, since it’s grounded in social drama, taking place in realistic settings. I can read enough of what’s been localised in English as “My Little Monster” at this point to believe it’ll be pretty smooth sailing in a couple of weeks, when I’m ready to move on to the next series, and I’ll tackle shounen and furi-equipped games after that.
Finding something interesting is generally better for motivation than just picking something level-perfect, but finding something you can read at a reasonable pace will be more satisfying and productive than doing a dictionary lookup every other sentence, especially since you’ll be working on applying grammar constructs and picking up idioms, two things (among many) that WaniKani doesn’t teach.
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