It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daiou is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki. (Source: ADV) Notes: - A great number of chapters are divided into several parts that have been included in the final chapter count. - The chapter count includes 5 extra chapters.
Japanese study overview
Azumanga Daiou is a Japanese manga of 63,519 characters, with 4,730 unique words and 1,093 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,730 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×304
- 先生teacher×132
- 言うto say×108
- 榊sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)×102
- 大阪Osaka (city, prefecture)×79
- 今日today×67
- 事thing×58
- 人person×50
- 思うto think×48
- 聞くto hear×43
- 今now×39
- 時time×36
- 黒沢Kurosara×26
- 神楽Kagura×23
- 谷崎Tanisaki×12
- おばけ屋敷haunted house×10
- 大阪人Osakan (person)×9
- 花粉症hay fever×7
- 春日Kasuka×6
- 初夢first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck)×6