Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.
Japanese study overview
Nichijou is a Japanese manga of 139,453 characters, with 8,458 unique words and 1,579 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,458 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×457
- 日常everyday×450
- 言うto say×258
- 事thing×170
- 常usual state of things×163
- 先生Senjō×161
- 今日today×141
- 麻衣Ai×120
- 思うto think×112
- 食べるto eat×105
- 今now×95
- 人person×93
- 阪本Sakamoto×81
- 相生Aioi×72
- 笹原Sasahara×65
- 桜井Sakurai×59
- 囲碁go (board game)×38
- ネジ回しscrewdriver×13
- ＷＣwater closet×10
- 生徒指導student guidance×9