I might have the minority opinion here, but I think there's no substitute for just grinding it out with rote memorization. It's true that after the first 500~60

I might have the minority opinion here, but I think there's no substitute for just grinding it out with rote memorization. It's true that after the first 500~600 kanji, you develop an intuition for how an unknown character might be pronounced (based on the radical or another constituent), but Japanese morphology is so maddeningly irregular that I'd rather spend the time on mindless repetition. There's only 1948 kanji, people, just git'r done!