You should try RTK first, not that I think it’s better than Textfugu, but there is just not enough kanjis in textfugu yet to properly learn them. An other way to do it (in my opinion and it is what I’m doing) is learning it via vocabs/sentences.

Each methods have their strong and weak points, you need to find what work best for you. But Textfugu isn’t an option (yet)

Well Textfugu’s kanji isn’t likely to be finished for another 2+ years.

Which doesn’t mean you have to use RTK if that doesn’t work for you, there are other methods. But Textfugu seems to get new kanji too slowly to be practical until it’s been completed.

Try, try, try.

I became Super Saiyan Level 5, so yeah, I’d recommend it.

@Dormoxx: At first, before I did RTK, I did TextFugu’s method – at that point, I think he was just starting 4-stroke (yup, a whole year to get from 4-stroke to 7-stroke haha), so I got a few useful readings under my belt. After I finished RTK, I tried going back to the newly created 4-stroke pages, but they just didn’t do it for me, so I didn’t bother doing any more. I was finding I was “picking up” a lot of readings just from learning vocab, so that’s my method now. I don’t go out of my way to specifically *learn* them, I just happen to notice patterns and it occasionally helps to remember new words with the same kanji :)

For example, I learned the words 自転車「じてんしゃ」、自動車「じどうしゃ」、自信「じしん」 and 自由「じゆう」, and from that I remembered one of the readings for 自 (which would be じ). Add on to that the word 電車（でんしゃ）, and you should now remember one of 車’s readings (which would be しゃ), as it’s featured in two of the previous words. Learn the words 電話（でんわ） and 電気（でんき）, and combined the previous word, you’ve now remembered one of the readings of 電 (which would be でん). I could actually continue this reading trail for at least another few readings, but you get the picture! :D These are all fairly common words I’ve used, so you can see that even from the outset of your vocab-learning journey, you pick up readings fast :)

(To continue the trail, just for funsies: 電話 -> 話題 -> 問題 -> 例題 -> 例文 -> 文化 -> ?)
(There’s another trail leading from 電気, but I can’t think of as many links for that one :D)

In a nutshell: learn readings by learning vocab.

@Dormoxx – I agree with Mister completely. Do RTK, get the readings naturally from vocab. Where you get the vocab is up to you. If you already have a bit of a foundation you may want to jump into native materials. If not, try the ultimate lists on this site or the Core (kore/2000/6000/whatever) shared decks on anki. Personally I use the site Reading the Kanji that Yggbert mentioned above. The downsides are that it costs money (10 USD a year I think) and that the SRS algorithm seems inferior to anki (also the site is a little slow). The positives are that it presents the vocab in an order that is a mix between frequency of use and groupings of words that use the same kanji so you get familiar with them faster. It also presents the vocab in sentences which give you context and examples of usage. And there are lots of pretty colors. You can try out the JLPT N5 list for free.