Chihiro-san, a former sex worker uninhibited by the shackles of society and conventional wisdom, is a someone that has life figured out... for the most part. The story follows her life in a small seaside town as customers of the box lunch shop she works at come to her about various concerns weighing on their minds. What's Chihiro's guiding answer to their love, work, family, and self-inflicted troubles? Note: Adapted into a live-action film titled Call Me Chihiro, which was released in Japan and distributed worldwide by Netflix on February 23, 2023.
Japanese study overview
Chihiro-san is a Japanese manga of 106,676 characters, with 7,339 unique words and 1,472 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,339 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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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×202
- 人person×164
- 言うto say×153
- 思うto think×145
- 年year×125
- 話counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.×86
- 話talk×79
- 知るto know×78
- 食べるto eat×77
- 号number×72
- 好きliking×68
- 俺I×67
- 弁当屋lunch vendor×27
- 綾figure×25
- 永井Nagai×25
- 風俗嬢woman who works in the sex industry×18
- 弘之Kōshi×16
- 綾Aya×16
- 安田Ada×15
- デジタル化digitization×15