I like this book for the pictograms that help you remember the various kanji, and that it's a kind of companion to the Genki textbook series. My complaint would be that the chapters here don't exactly line up with the kanji chapters in that text. You'd think the authors would eliminate all the overlap and make some kind of plan to cover as many kanji as possible between this book and the two Genki books' vocabulary lists, but I guess they really wanted this one to be stand alone... ( )