Sakura Kanji Ketchi

Sakura Kanji Ketchi is a study adventure in which you play Sakura, travel across Japan in search of her missing father and learn kanji through lessons, reviews and battles. It covers 780 kanji from JLPT N5 to N1, plus 21 kanji outside the JLPT lists, and uses 74 radicals and components as building blocks. The game places kanji across 22 cities and includes 467 recipes for combining radicals into kanji.

Learn and review kanji

A teaching card introduces each kanji before it appears in a test, covering its meaning, readings, parts and an example word. FSRS-5 schedules reviews using real-time intervals, tracking meaning and reading separately and aiming for 90% recall. Kanji due for review are counted, marked on the map and included in review sessions and the Daily Quest. Missed kanji return a few questions later, and wrong options use similar-looking kanji to help distinguish them. Reading trainers in three cities focus on on and kun readings.

Questions cover four kinds of study:

• Meaning: choose the English meaning of a kanji.
• Reading: match its on and kun readings.
• Composition: build a kanji from its radicals.
• In a word: choose the kanji that completes a vocabulary word.

Explore and battle

Each city hides kanji and radicals in bushes. You catch them in battle, then combine radicals into new kanji at the combiner. Battles include catch battles and boss fights on one stage, as well as pack battles against three to five monsters; your answers in battle count toward your reviews. Four bosses end their fights with an exam of full sentences.

You can open portals in any city, choose a JLPT level and dungeon length, and add optional risks. Dungeons use a fog-of-war map, and every strike is an answer. Chests come in Common, Rare and Legendary varieties, each opened by answering a round of questions.

Study and progression systems

The System includes levels, stats, build challenges, titles, hidden quests and a Daily Quest. You can set answer timers to normal speed, one and a half times as long, or off. The game also includes Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves.

The kanji coverage is divided by level:

• N5: 80 kanji
• N4: 162 kanji
• N3: 252 kanji
• N2: 164 kanji
• N1: 101 kanji
• 21 further kanji outside the JLPT lists
• 74 radicals and components as building blocks