The list of graphemes (many are "sub-radicals") is daunting *too* daunting to put up for me) but I'd LOVE to see them offered via Skritter, the way Heisig's work is!

Here's what one review on Amazon said:

http://www.amazon.com/Kanji-ABC-Systematic-Approach-Characters/product-reviews/0804819572/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

"Speaking as a College Graduate with a Japanese Language degree, how can one compress these twelve years into the 4 years that a non-Japanese is supposed to learn the reading skill?

"This book is the answer. Although one is supposed to acquire a reading skill of about 2000 Kanji to read a Japanese newspaper, there are thousands of Kanji to learn. As this book shows, each Kanji is composed of stylized sub-pictographs called graphemes (sometimes called radicals).

"About 220 graphemes make up 95% of all Kanji. With this excellent book, a student of Japanese memorizes the 220 graphemes by meaning, which then facilitates the memorization of Kanji, by allowing one to memorize the shapes that make up the Kanji.

"The big problem for non-native readers of Japanese is that the Kanji all look like chicken-scratches, and there is no handle to grasp in the task of memorizing the Kanji so as to read Japanese.

"This book gives you that handle, and should be issued to every Japanese language student who is serious about learning to read Japanese.

"While one will still spend hours writing Kanji on paper again and again to memorize them and gain reading ability, this book shortens and facilitates that task enormously, and is without doubt the most useful book in my Japanese language library."

I'd love to hear from others on this!!

There is a list available to teach you Kanji radicals.

http://www.skritter.com/vocab/list?list=agVza3JpdHIWCxINVm9jYWJMaXN0SW5mbxjqircVDA

I used the "Look inside the book" feature at Amazon, and although they don't show any of the actual pages that would be useful for judging the book to compare it to books I do know like the "Remembering the Kanji" series, the readings for the Kanji they show are all in romaji. A serious learner would use hiragana and katakana based materials.

Also, I second what dontom said about the Kanji radicals if you haven't learned them.