Hi,
Either I’m missing it or it’s not there, but I couldn’t find a way to remove kanji from the ones I want to study. For example, I want to review and learn only the kanji for the JLPT N2, so I’d like to remove all the JLPT N1 kanji and vocab that won’t be useful to me. I don’t have time to learn kanji that I won’t need for now. So I’d like to remove those kanji, is there a no way to do that oO ?
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No, I’m afraid, there isn’t.
Afaik, on WK, the kanji are sorted according to their simplicity and frequency of usage, regardless of what JLPT level they are required for…
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Short answer: no.
Longer answer:
You could install the Item Filter userscript to autopass those items (kanji and/or vocab) you do not want to study.
However this will do the SRS for those items so if later you’d change your mind and would like to study them (which you should, really - Japanese is more than just the JLPT exams) you’ll have to fail the reviews or unburn them.
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I can’t add to @cezarL‘s answer but the following references might be of interest to you about this limitation:
https://www.wkstats.com/items/jlpt
https://www.wkstats.com/charts/jlpt
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My understanding is that there’s no such thing as JLPT kanji lists anyway. If you have a strong time constraint and are looking to pass the JLPT N2 soon, studying kanji and vocab on WaniKani may not be the best approach.
Then again you seem to be level 6 on WaniKani, meaning that you’re still mainly learning N5/N4 tier kanji, so I don’t really understand why you’re concerned about this.
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I’m asking for the future. I don’t see the point of learning here if I have to learn 600 N1 kanji in order to learn all the N2 kanji. It just feels like it should be easy for them to develop this kind of feature. I don’t understand how such an old website doesn’t have this kind of obvious feature
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Thanks for the advice 
I’ll check it
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It’s a design choice – WaniKani is an “opinionated” app: the developers have a definite view about what they think is the best way to try to teach kanji, and they deliberately do not provide a lot of configuration options to let you deviate from that, or implement features that go against their take on kanji learning. The advantage is that if you’re a beginner then you can just go with the flow of the app and don’t have to make a lot of choices about how to use it that you don’t have enough information to make. The disadvantage is that if you aren’t a beginner or you have your own strong opinions then you are likely to find conflicts with the app’s choices. If those conflicts are sufficiently severe then WK might not be the app for you.
In practice, as simias says there’s no such thing as an official JLPT N2 kanji list, and WK order is fairly heavily influenced by usage frequency, so it’s not really in severe conflict with a JLPT focused learning path.
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If that your take I think taking a list from there
and creating your own deck in Anki / JPDB / Kitsun will be a lot more appropriate to your liking.
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