Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Tokita Ohma, nicknamed "Ashura", joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki. Includes 24 extras/side stories.
Japanese study overview
Kengan Ashura is a Japanese manga of 435,954 characters, with 18,672 unique words and 2,298 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 18,672 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×877
- 者person×757
- 私I×594
- 仕合match×567
- お前you×565
- 王馬Ouma×505
- 願desire×463
- 闘技competition×439
- 会長president (of a society)×389
- 拳fist×388
- 男man×377
- 技technique×374
- 山下Sanka×328
- 乃木Nogi×256
- 片原Katahara×158
- 若槻Wakaki×150
- ｋｇkilogram×98
- 坂東Bandō×95
- 呉go×87
- 一回戦first game×73