Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household--his father--dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
Shingetsutan Tsukihime is a Japanese manga of 129,891 characters, with 7,337 unique words and 1,674 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,337 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.
- 志貴Shiki×409
- 俺I×310
- 遠野Enno×276
- 殺すto kill×199
- 言うto say×194
- 思うto think×188
- 事thing×182
- 兄さんolder brother×168
- 吸血鬼vampire×162
- 私I×161
- 秋葉Akiha×146
- 年year×125
- 月姫Usagi×83
- 貫kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)×78
- 真月Magetsu×75
- 真祖(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic×75
- 琥珀Ko×46
- 翡翠Hisui×43
- 死徒apostle of death (in fiction)×26
- 魔眼evil eye×17