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>>42379358
So unpopular opinion, but I really think going for kanji core deck is a beginner trap that really just makes the initial language acquisition parts (like first six months) that much harder and ineffective.
Coming from someone with very bad short term memory, it all appeared to me just like that, a bunch of squiggly lines that I had to memorize, and if the kanji or word just slightly differ, I would just get it wrong every fucking time.
So the only way to really get through it would be to forcefully hit repeat every fucking time until you're actually remembering properly, and that made it so more painful.

The alternative for this is going into some actual kanji study or kanji focused stuff. One thing that offers this is wanikani, that goes through all radicals and then sole kanji before going into word combinations and stuff. For me though anki is not engaging enough for this because you can just skip to the next card, which actual wanikani seems to have a better system for this.
For me lately I've been really enjoying the app Kakugo, which was great for me getting the through hiragana and katakana, I should've just stuck with it instead of moving to core decks. The thing is that the multiple options actually forces my brain to engage and figure it out, plus it has a bunch of possibilities to go around, like kanji to furigana or kanji to meaning and vice versa, and even drawing.

That being said, the above is a great specifically for the reading side of things, get familiar with kanji and it forms, and even acquiring some bits of vocab, but its essential to pair up with some immersion listening exercise, which unfortunately at the beginning, has to be sort of kids stuff (the guide usually has some good references).