The surfaces are very good in terms of their natural pen experience but they are very pricey too.
It would be overkill just for kanji practice.
I don’t know how much the Wacoms cost, but I second @tedkulp on the iPad Pro and pencil in terms of writing experience and utility. Bought it in lieu of getting a new laptop and have not regretted it at all. Expensive, but writing experience is the most natural I’ve found (have tried surface and wacoms before). There’s an app that is very helpful in writing and learning stroke orders, and it has a quiz mode where you can see if you’re doing stroke order correctly too. I also read Japanese ebooks with a dictionary (I use Midori) up in split view mode, which has been really nice.
As an aside, I’d always done art the analog way (except for photomanipulation work) then had to photograph or scan, but since getting the iPad I’ve made the switch to doing commissions from scratch there then importing easily into photoshop for final touches and it’s worked out really well.
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I have a few Wacom Intuos tablets. You just reminded me I bought my last one just two years ago, it hasn’t been used. It was hard for me to draw on something while looking at the screen to see the results. I’m no artist, I suppose if I practiced everyday on a Wacom I’d get used to it.
I do use my Samsung Tab S3 with pen though. Works much better for me. I love being able to sketch for fun or practice kanji on it.
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