I'd recommend Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig, it's what got me through kanji after failing the "normal" way of doing it. Takes about 2-3 months if you put in a lot of time. Took me about 4 months at a somewhat relaxed pace entering about 100 kanji into Anki each weekend, each kanji taking about 5 minutes.
Once you can read the kanji studying japanese becomes a lot easier. The language isn't all that hard, just need to spend a lot of time, like with any language.

For more info I'd recommend checking out Reviewing the Kanji and it's forum at: http://kanji.koohii.com/

Remembering the Kanji along with Anki has worked great for me. Can't recommend it enough.
I learned the first 200 or so kanji in the traditional order and it's was a major pita. With Hesig kanji became fun and a lot easier.

From what I've read Remembering the Hanzi is good as well so one should most certainly check it out.

Delphi does not produce interpreted code and it never has. It has produced native code since Delphi 1 and Turbo Pascal did the same before that.

(Delphi.NET does though. ;))