In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like. But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who're engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses -- all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into traps set by black market money-lenders to ensnare just such weak-willed individuals? Note: Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2011. And the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020.
Japanese study overview
Yamikin Ushijima-kun is a Japanese manga of 754,194 characters, with 23,626 unique words and 2,355 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 23,626 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.
- 俺I×2,146
- 円yen (currency of Japan)×1,655
- お前you×1,235
- 私I×1,056
- 言うto say×713
- 丑嶋Ushishima×687
- 金money×679
- 話talk×626
- 今now×619
- 女woman×586
- 年year×579
- 社長company president×560
- 柄崎Karasaki×362
- 滑Namera×344
- 闇金black-market lending×333
- 天生Amou×202
- 高田Kōda×182
- 隼人Hayato×167
- 清栄your health and prosperity×130
- 飯匙倩habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis)×124