I've learned 292 Kanji so far. I started really honestly trying to learn the kanji at the tail end of January, seeing as how it has only been a month and a half.. call it 50 days, this is fairly significant. I really owe it all to
Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig. It is, bar none, the only way to really try and take on written Japanese as a second language.
Its pretty freaking cool.