I was wondering if any course use adequate kanji for their level ?
It seems even n5 vocab courses use kanji outside of the jouyou list wich is pretty frustrating.
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I gave some recommendations here:
The courses I list there do however use some non-jōyō kanji, and are possibly the ones you’ve already looked at.
My approach in taking those and every vocab course I’ve taken since has been to ignore the kanji tests that use kanji I haven’t learned in a kanji-specific course, and keep a list of everything that I ignore. While I’ve already learned all of the jōyō kanji, I plan to selectively learn more in the future, then use that list to hunt down the words I should then un-ignore and learn. Many of the non-jōyō kanji really are everywhere and still worth eventually learning. 嬉, for example, is not considered a jōyō kanji, but I see it all the time in the word, 嬉しい.
The courses TinyCaterpillar recommends are all by JLPTBootcamp, and if you want a really intensive kanji experience right off the bat then they’re good.
If you’d rather kanji relevant for the JLPT that will help you pass those levels in particular I suggest JTalkOnline.
JLPT N5 Vocabulary and Kanji
JLPT N4 Vocabulary
JLPT N4 Kanji
[Edit: I can only post 2 links so you’ll have to go to memrise(dot)com/user/jtalkonline/courses/teaching to find the other JLPT courses.]
The JTalkOnline N5 and N4 courses together cover about 1500 vocabulary and about 280 kanji (I think).
The JLPT N3 Standard courses (there are 2 of them) are fantastic. They do cover kanji that is likely to not turn up in the exam, but at JLPT N3 level it’s good to start learning non-beginner kanji.
Hope that helps!