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I don't understand the target audience of this book
In short: This book teaches beginner kanji (the first two grades of Japanese elementary school/~the N5 kanji with some N4 kanji). In addition to being a list of the Kanji, it uses short manga stories and exercises, but those require a much higher level than N5. I don't know who I would recommend this to.
The book shows you all the kanji with the usual supplementary information (stroke order, stroke count, radicals etc). In addition it gives you a funny drawing that should help you remember the Kanji, e.g. a sombrero with spider legs. After each 10 kanji or so, you get a one-page manga and one page with exercises and solutions, so there are about 20 such sections throughout the book. Each manga is 5-10 panels that tell a simple joke, not connected to the other manga pages or exercises. The exercise are very simple in style, e.g. seeing a word written in kanji and having to write it in hiragana or finding a mistake.
I initially attempted this book after I had finished the beginner text book in the same series, but gave up immediately as all of the exercises where much too hard. There is also no connection between the main text book or the exercise book in the series and the kanji book, so studying them together has no added benefit.
So I revisited and worked through this book after I had reached an N5 level (and basically knew most of the kanji already). At that point I understood some of the manga panels, but they often used grammar and words that exceeded my N5 knowledge. The exercises where even more confusing: For example, the first lesson covers some basic kanji like the number one to seven. But then the exercise gives you the example sentence: "Those tow got married in July and said they will soon have triplets", including kanji for month, child, life, and marriage.
Overall, I struggle to imagine a reader who is confident with N4+ grammer and vocabulary, but has the need to learn N5 kanji. (And even then, how would they know the N4+ kanji that randomly pop up in the exercises?)
I'd definitely recommend a standard kanji book, like the N5 Kanji Master or even just the Kanji section in the So-Matome N5 book.