Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for an elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year old store manager who doesn't bother to do any work at all. (Source: NIS America)
Japanese study overview
WORKING!! is a Japanese manga of 339,978 characters, with 11,843 unique words and 1,705 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 11,843 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.
- 君Mr×1,171
- 山田Ooshita×1,123
- 私I×1,021
- 事thing×858
- 伊波Inami×771
- 小鳥遊Takanashi×704
- 俺I×630
- 言うto say×585
- 佐藤Saiu×554
- 相馬Aiba×501
- 思うto think×414
- 人person×398
- 八千代very long period×339
- 種島Taneshima×328
- 杏子Ako×308
- 音尾Otoo×206
- 宗太Souta×113
- 男嫌いmisandry×52
- 宗sect×43
- 年増mature woman×33