Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bear it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town. Notes: Includes 8 extra chapters. Won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
Japanese study overview
Sakamichi no Apollon is a Japanese manga of 137,416 characters, with 7,682 unique words and 1,502 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,682 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.
- 坂道hill road×472
- 俺I×411
- 薫Isao×311
- 千太郎Sentarō×235
- 言うto say×205
- 君Mr×162
- 君you×156
- 律Osamu×149
- 思うto think×127
- 今now×127
- お前you×120
- 年year×118
- 淳Aki×99
- 西見Nishimi×94
- 百合香Yurika×78
- 小玉small ball×65
- 律子Noriko×65
- 律law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code)×60
- 短編集collection of short stories×18
- 言いよるto court×18