Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can’t help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way... (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai is a Japanese manga of 225,437 characters, with 8,337 unique words and 1,524 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,337 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.
- 花野井Hananoi×1,169
- 私I×650
- 巻volume (of book)×567
- 全all×521
- 言うto say×424
- 思うto think×423
- 僕I×340
- 好きliking×292
- 今日today×291
- 人person×247
- 恋(romantic) love×242
- 今now×203
- 八尾Hao×167
- 日生Nichio×139
- 恋の病lovesickness×110
- 颯Ibuki×77
- 森野Shinno×74
- 新装版publication in a new format or binding×62
- 生くto live×51
- 葉月eighth month of the lunar calendar×28