THE KANJI RPG YOU CAN’T PAY INTO · GRADES 1–6

Study → Coins → Play.
There’s no going back.

There is only one way to earn coins: studying kanji. Nowhere in the app can coins be bought with money. Saved coins earn “play tickets,” and play begins only once a parent approves. That’s Kanji Trial.

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Signing up is free, no credit card. You decide about Plus later, from the parent dashboard.

Parent dashboard supports Japanese, English, and Thai.

Our 3 promises

No ads

No in-app purchases

MEXT curriculum aligned (1,026 school kanji)

No in-app
purchases

KANJI TRIAL CONSTITUTION · ARTICLE 1

Coins cannot be bought with cash.

Studying is what leads to items.

“Mom, can I get more Robux?”

You've paid for game passes, skins, and pets you've never seen. You don't know what your child bought, or what they got out of it. We're parents too, so we built the opposite.

TYPICAL GAME

Money → Coins → Fun

The mystery $50 charge. The loop runs on your wallet.

KANJI TRIAL

Study → Coins → Fun

Every coin is a record of effort. The one doing the work is your child.

1,026 school kanji 1,752 words · 2,142 sentences 80–202 kanji / grade · as allocated $0 in-app purchases PWA offline support

What the screens actually show

Fig. 1 · Study

Asked again, right when it’s about to slip.

A review cycle matched to how memory fades (the forgetting curve), optimized for kids. Seven study modes — reading, writing, vocabulary and more — help it stick without getting boring.

Parent screen · weekly report

Fig. 2 · Watch over them

Your report card arrives, not a bill.

You can see which study earned every single coin. Using a play ticket needs your email approval, so the daily time limit you set never stretches on its own. The weekly report on the parent screen shows how hard they’ve been working.

MEXT curriculum aligned (2017)

Readings your child's grade hasn't reached won't appear.

For example, 天 is a Grade 1 kanji, but only the readings TEN and ama are taught in elementary school (AME is a high-school reading). Kanji Trial reflects not only the grade-by-grade kanji list but the staged reading allocation, exactly as published.

※ To keep your child motivated, answering with a higher-grade reading is never marked wrong.

Grade

Kanji allocated

Grade 1

Grade 2

160

Grade 3

200

Grade 4

202

Grade 5

193

Grade 6

191

Total

1,026

※ On the free plan, everything up to your child's placement grade is included — the grade boss too.

Every reward in the collection is pure effort.

Pets, bosses, gear. Everything lined up here was earned by studying. There is no paid shortcut.

STAGE 1

STAGE 2

STAGE 3

★ FUSION

BOSS G1

BOSS G6

TOWER

BOW

FAN

BRUSH

Weekly egg · see 3, pick 1

Study hard 6–7 days in a week and the rarest egg arrives on Monday. All 3 pets inside are visible, and your child picks one.

A second lesson: budgeting and tax.

The app has its own economy. How should saved coins be spent? Managing them lets kids try out how society works.

One item's price, over a week

Cheap day! Buy here

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Fig. 3 · prices move

little left over
0%

a bit left over
10%

a fair amount left
25%

a lot left over
40%

Prices change every day.

Item prices rise and fall every day with everyone’s buying and selling and the day’s news. “It’s expensive today, let’s wait for a cheap day” — kids learn to think it through themselves.

Profit is taxed.

A progressive tax (0–40%): the bigger the profit, the higher the rate. Kids understand why through experience, not explanation.

Money only ever flows one way in.

There is no cash entry point to the exchange — not from a parent's money, not from a child's. This experience stays uncontaminated by real money.

Not a single real yen ever moves.

No “buy me this.” A world with zero tricks to make kids spend.

Nothing to buy
No coin packs and no paid gacha — none at all.

Nothing watching
No ads and no behavioral tracking.

No strangers
Friends join by invite code only — no contact with strangers, no friend search. Every message is checked automatically and kept on record.

Parents see it all
Study, coins, and messages are all visible on the parent screen. Your child knows they're seen.

Read all the evidence: white paper →

Typical free games

Kanji Trial

Buy coins / loot with cash

Core revenue model

Cannot be bought with cash

Upsell to children

In-app shop

Plus is parent-screen only

Blind loot boxes

Paid random pulls

See 3, pick 1 — can't be bought

Ads & behavioral tracking

Common in free games

No ads, no SDKs

Why we built this

Our child attends an international school in Bangkok. English kept improving, while kanji was starting to slip away. We looked for “a game that properly follows the grade-by-grade kanji list, and where nothing can be bought from a child’s screen” — and couldn’t find one anywhere. If it didn’t exist, we had to build it. That’s how Kanji Trial began.

Read the evidence: white paper →

Start free. Stay free forever, if you like.

Signing up costs nothing at all. Whether to go with paid Plus is something you can decide later, at your own pace, from the parent dashboard.

FREE

Free / forever

✓ Full game, all study modes + stroke order
✓ Up to the grade set by the placement test (including that grade's boss)
✓ Weekly eggs, outfits, league play
✓ 1 child · 20 questions/day · basic parent dashboard

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PLUS

✓ All 1,026 kanji (study ahead into later grades)
✓ Up to 6 children, no extra charge
✓ No daily question limit
✓ Detailed parent dashboard + weekly email

※ After signing up, you can start a 14-day free trial from the parent dashboard.

Plus can only be purchased from the parent dashboard. If you cancel, every item earned and every study record stays.

Questions parents ask

Is there really no way to buy coins?

Yes, coins can’t be bought with cash. It isn’t a rule we enforce — the app is built so there is simply no way to buy them.

Aren't the eggs gambling (loot boxes)?

No. No money is ever paid, all three pets inside are visible before the egg opens, and your child chooses one of them. Luck never costs them anything.

Won't game time keep increasing?

No. Play tickets need your email approval, and the daily cap you set never grows. Only how many coins a ticket costs can change day to day.

Does it match school pace?

Yes. It follows the official grade-by-grade kanji list (1,026 characters) and the staged reading allocation, so readings your child's grade hasn't reached are never asked.

How much study per day?

Most days are short, review-centered sessions. Only the questions due that day are picked out, so there's no need for long hours at the desk.

What happens if we cancel Plus?

Every item earned and every study record stays, and learning continues within the free plan. Records are never taken away.

Your child gets the game.
You get the report of their effort.

Nobody gets a bill they didn't expect.

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