I don’t find it addictive so much- it’s just a necessary tool (alongside grammar study) for learning the language. That said, when I’m doing lessons/ reviews, it makes something that should be painful quite painless.
I do wish the vocab contextualized how often each word was used ie kyoushi more useful than oyabun, etc., but I know WK isn’t primarily a vocab tool.
I’m level one and I’m already addicted… 
This would be useful for @Omun
The kanji can be more unique, although I will say that sometimes the radicals don’t really work together to make a mnemonic that makes any really sense. Def struggling with a few & their readings.
On topic, I’d say I was quite addicted my first few months in (started August 2018), but after coming back from winter vacation, I had a massive pile of reviews waiting for me. I eventually did them all, but I hit the wall after a bit (too many lessons + items to burn/things I’d forgotten). I’m finally turning it all around, but I’d say the initial rush turned into a long-term commitment with its own issues.
Yeah, the radicals don’t always make great stories on their own, but i think it’s impossible to design a set of radicals that always instantly makes an easy story for every Kanji, so you just need to memorize the mnemonic or make your own.
heh, I deal with like 70 items per day, but because they go back in few hours I can easily do 200 revisions a day on my low level and it eats a lot of time. I do improve, but I am seriously concerned about higher levels. And while I enjoy radicals, the vocabulary is hard for me, it seems I have 30 words I struggle to remember and 30 words I keep confusing with each other, and whenever I manage to remember some items well enough, new lesson unlocks and I get bunch of new confusing cards to review:)
Hard to judge from low level, but…doing reviews is easy, but remembering stuff is difficult.
You know what’s really addictive?
Vacation Mode.
I sometimes take a peek at other people when they’re using their smartphone in public. They’re either texting or playing games. I haven’t found another person who’s using their smartphone to learn another language or kanji while waiting for the bus. Makes me feel very smug when I’m doing reviews on my phone.
I do my reviews in my classes sometimes, and I’ve had a lot of people ask me if I was learning Chinese. It’s difficult to explain why they’re right and wrong at the same time, so I just say “No, it’s Japanese”.
I wanted to give up an Instagram addiction so I started doing Wanikani…now I’m hooked on Wanikani. I’m like a mindless zombie stomping to level 60 
In the beginning it is a bit addictive since leveling up feels like a game but then when you start having more then 300 reviews per day it’s no longer fun/addictive.
when I see the word bay, now I think of 米 (べい, Rice)…
For me I got truly addicted after I installed New and Improved Wallpaper Generator as a background on my home and work computer. I have filled me with so much joy to see the kanji get filled in and change colour. 
same here, I feel so cool lol, at least there is never a waste of time now that we have wanikani ! also I feel like it improves memory???
nice!! I ll install that now
if reviews are overwhelming, and especially if you already find many words easy to mix up, i’d suggest stopping lessons until you’ve learned your current items well enough. that will make your reviews much easier.
haha, also America.
(米国 = America = rice country if you will)
Rice is just used as a phonetic kanji (ateji), but it’s still funny to me that of all countries America is rice country.
it would be interesting to know what they think of America haha, why they chose rice to name the country
Actually there was no meaning to calling them rice country, it’s just that they used phonetic spelling for America (A-me-ri-ka), and then shortened the country names, and the first letter (A + country) was already used for Asia, so they used “me” fom “A-ME-ri-ka”, which is 米 as a phonetic kanji (ateji).
By the way, i just found out that France is “Buddha country” 
oh yes I just learn the spelling “ame” for 米 not so long ago, makes sense!
eyyyy I m French and l love Buddhism, I feel proud 
is it a matter of spelling too? or because they find France too cool
they just use the character for pronunciation as well.
仏国 = ふつこく = France, using the pronunciation ふつ of 仏 (WK teaches the more common pronunciation ぶつ, like 大仏 = だいぶつ = big buddha statue).
And ふつ sounds close enough to France (フランスじん = frenchman), right?