>>19
Honestly, how can you miss the point so hard? Heisig teaches you how to
write kanji, not read. Even the meanings you learn is often not very useful (when there are more than one). Seriously, just read the introduction in the one you linked.
The main idea put forth is kinda: the writing, pronunciations and meanings of a kanji are not at all related, so why try to learn them all at once?
In the "traditional" way, remembering how to write a kanji is fucking hard. I learned some 400 kanji in a year (with げんき), and couldn't write less than 10% of them after a few weeks of not studying.
With Heisig it's easy. Without Heisig I noticed that some kanji were orders of magnitude easier to learn. These were the kanji that contained parts I had previously seen in kanji I already knew. That's simply what Heisig does, only more focused, systematic and with memnonics ("stories").
>>20
I think げんき is nice, but it sucks for kanji.