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Absolutely. If you want to become proficient at reading Japanese, that is. The SRS system is very effective and does all of the scheduling for you. But! You will grow to hate it. You will swear at it! You will get up and walk away with burning tears of frustration in your eyes! But you will perservere and occassionally add your own synonyms that you feel are lacking, and you will eventually conquer! My advice is to not buy the lifetime, go for the monthly. It ends up costing more, but for me it is incentive to keep going back frequently everyday. If I had a lifetime membership I would not be keeping the pace that I am.
Cheers,
Dave.
There is definitely some merit in the whole “limited time = demands greater diligence” camp. That’s partly why I have a yearly sub and not lifetime. However, I do understand the people that say doing so might force you to burn out and that slower is better than never.
It’s just gonna depend how OP evaluates his future progress and plans.
Almost certainly, yes.
To my embarrassment I have to admit that I never got around to try that although I did find and bookmark KaniWani a while ago.
Anyway, I now ended up using renshuu to cover some of the parts WK did not inherently include [i,e, vocab/kanji production and grammar] and by now all is well again. I maybe was not clear enough that I had quite a struggle to get a good accuracy when I started with production on renshuu, but by now [i.e. 2 months in] this is no longer an issue as it was before 
So I’m only on level 6 right now, but having paid for a yearly at the end of the free levels, I’m so happy I did. I bought a new copy of Genki 1 and A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. Together they cost as much as a year of Wanikani, and I’ll be done with Genki 1 before a year passes.
Personally, the value of having excellent mnemonics prewritten for me, along with SRS, to boot, is completely worth it. If you really put your mind to it, this method compared to the rest totally feels like cheating. It’s amazing.
I know how to set these kinds of study systems up for myself, and I do, with Anki and mnemonics and so forth. However, it’s so time consuming and requires so much knowledge in advance to do it efficiently (that I won’t even have until I learn Japanese), that as a full-time professional learning Japanese on my own, Wanikani is one of my not-so-secret weapons.
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Yeah, looking at other resources WK seems like the only one which takes care of all extra work, like planning and coming up with mnemonics, so you can spend all your time actually learning japanese. Considering this I think WK really is worth the price. However, it’s really hectic at school right now so I’ll wait till the weekend when things have calmed down before making a purchase.
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What level did you have to reach to be ready for N5?
If you do all the kanji and vocab for the free levels (1 through 3), you are probably overprepared for N5’s kanji section.
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At the time, I had completed WK lv 7, Genki 1 ch. 4, Pimsleur Japanese 2, and Kumon Japanese section C. Oh… and maybe 30 episodes of Irassai.
I scored above 66% in all three sections and my aggregate score, after weighting, was around the 87th percentile.
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I don’t think I have enough time or money to finish up until Level 7 
I’m in Chapter 19 of Genki 2 but I’m still kind of scared !! 
By ch 12 of Genki 1, you have all the grammar required for N5 and probably all the kanji. Make sure you are doing listening drills like the examples on the JLPT site. Completing Genki 2 is all the grammar for N4.
Official N5 Guide:
Cram book I used the month before N5:
Cram book for N4:
I really like the TRY! books by ASK, but be careful to buy the right language. My friend mistakenly purchased one in Vietnamese. The language is stated on the cover.
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Thank you! 
It really depends on you and how you learn. I can only speak for myself. There are cheap (even free) kanji resources out there, and I’ve tried many of them over time. Some helped a bit. But, I’ve never been great with kanji learning and WaniKani is about the only thing that keeps me motivated to learn. Gamifying it works for me. Something else may be more economical or even better for you.
As for those free resources, many of the study forums/sites for the JLPT have kanji lists posted. I really don’t remember the site names, but Google is a beautiful thing. Also, the Kodansha’s Kanji Learning course (book and workbook) isn’t free but it works out to be quite a bit cheaper than other alternatives. That’s true even if you’re like me and bought several workbooks to use. It’s also an excellently structured course.
Hahaha! I totally expected that to be he response. (After all, it shows up next in the related videos.)
Ichiban!
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*chuckles silently*