Logically, the optimal way to study is to only SRS the words you come across during language acquisition. This way, you’ll never SRS another unneccessary word again! /s
Or just take the very tiny inefficiency that is learning a word you might not see (but very well might), resting assured your cards are quality-checked, your data backed up, your experience streamlined and mnemonicified. I know what I’ll take.
It doesn’t have kana for one and it’s free.
Wrong. The 月見 burger at KFC is incredible.
Are you trying to min/max Japanese?
OP says they don’t want useless vocab – おはよう seems like a pretty useful word, unless you sit inside the house all day whining on forums.
I don’t want to clown on them too much because I think we were all there at some point at the beginning of our study where it was just really exciting and there’s so much to learn.
They’ll either figure it out or drop it in due time.
I would actually say that without the /s, but only after you’ve reached the point where you can meaningfully engage with native content. Rote memorizing the top ~5k most common words by frequency will generally be worth it in order to get to that point, IMO.
What if you sleep in past 12 everyday? 
Well I’m glad you asked, friend, because the fine folks at WK have prepared for that eventuality with words like こんばんは! Either way, you’ll still need plenty of コーヒー from the コンビニ.
I hit level 60 an hour ago and i think you won’t lose anything if you use the free anki deck.
But i think it’s more convenient at this point to use an entirely new resource for kanji learning.
Right now i just switched completely to jpdb.io and it’s good, especially for the premade decks that i plan using for light novels
It’s useful for remembering kanji which is the purpose. WK is not a vocab tool. And even the vocab that isn’t common helps reinforce the reading of kanji.
Those freaking wisteria. lol. I’m just past that level and I didn’t even know the word in my native language. Granted the plant doesn’t exist here but still. Lmao. I thought it was helpful after WK told me it’s a very common sign in names though.
And it’s also not an uncommon plant in Europe 
I’m German and in German the Wikipedia said it’s not native here. But apparently something similar is (that I also didn’t know). Maybe I just suck at botany
i knew that before i learning Japanese’s everyone knows that haha
which kanji deck is for you?
wankikanki
wankikanki
Pick an anime/visual novel/light novel series that you want to watch/read.
Pick the corrisponding deck on jpdb.io.
Enable kanji cards on the jpdb settings.
Enjoy learning vocab (and kanji) without paying anything.
Pro tip, check out bunpro for grammar, you won’t go far imo if you have no idea of the sentence structure and the important grammar points.
I guess jpdb + bunpro will be more than enough, also bunpro is half the price of wanikani and you can finish it in a fraction of the time. WinWin.
Given that these questions almost invariably seem to come from people with less than a thousand common words by frequency under their belt, I think the /s is still valid. But yes, of course, I agree.
Yea thanks helpful