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I did not like the way this book was set up.
Now, if you are heavily struggling with learning Japanese or hiragana and katakana, then yes, maybe I'd recommend this for a starting book. If you already know your syllabaries, I'd pick something else.
Like someone else said, this book is paced differently. It's way slow for my taste (requiring more textbooks to cover the same as Genki or Minna do in one book, and not because of the amount of exercises). I did not enjoy the progressive introduction to hiragana and katakana or the mix of it and romaji while studying.
That said, the work done on it is commendable, as is the fact that there are free videos online to help you study. It is a self-study friendly book, but again, moves too slow for my taste and I do not agree with the way the syllabaries are taught.