I have now officially learned every one of the grade 1 kanji! Woohoo! Now to wait another 10 weeks to finish the grade 2 kanji...
For the last week and a half, Wanikani has been surprisingly easy. I haven't had any really demoralizing review sessions since Feb 4th. I keep thinking, is this it? I've wondered in the past about whether I'll be able to keep up with WK towards the end when the review load is 2.5x what it is now, but now I'm more optimistic.
Edit: ...and of course as soon as I write that, I get hit with 58% on some kanji I should have remembered. I guess the real lesson there is that I need to put more effort into learning the items when going through the initial lessons. I've mostly been doing that, which is perhaps one of the reasons things have been going more smoothly lately, but on the last lesson I didn't bother and hence forgot half of it immediately. Talk about embarrassing.
Anyway, a couple days, I resumed reading the graded reader that ロータス posted here on the last page. I reached what I believe to be the end of the level 0 stories. It was heartening to realize that I'm now far enough that I can figure out the majority of what they say. The last story was about flower and colors and first covered red, yellow, green, white, and blue, all of which I've already learned from WK with the exception of midori/green, and then it got to purple, which I looked up and discovered wouldn't be covered in WK until level 49! So that was a little reminder of how far I still have to go, just in WK. It's easy to forget, since I already covered all of the most common kanji.
In case anyone is curious and too lazy to click on the link themselves, here's a sample of what the grade 0 Flowers and Colors story looks like.
As far as other things go, I think I'm beginning to recognize words more often when watching Sword Art Online or listening to music. I'm still lightyears away from actually understanding them, but it's nice to see progress. I do feel like it's going to take a long time to wrap my head around the grammar though, going by the example sentences I've seen on Tae Kim and Bunpro. It's just so alien to a western mind.