Rei Kiriyama is a child prodigy. Rei Kiriyama is also an orphan who lives alone in an empty apartment. Rei Kiriyama is a teen working in an adult's world. Life is complicated for Rei. He's an up-and-coming shogi player on the verge of turning pro, but he has no homelife, or much of a life period,outside his board game, but thankfully with the help of some life-long friends he has an opportunity start all over again. (Source: DENPA) Notes: - Winner of the Grand Prize at the 4th Manga Taishou Award in 2011. - Winner of the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011. - Winner of the Grand Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014. - Winner of the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2021.
Japanese study overview
3-gatsu no Lion is a Japanese manga of 505,286 characters, with 17,839 unique words and 2,056 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,839 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.
- 事thing×877
- 桐山Kiyama×763
- 将棋shogi×748
- 思うto think×643
- 言うto say×629
- 私I×574
- 僕I×445
- 対局(playing a) game (of go, shogi, etc.)×422
- 時time×407
- 今now×390
- 自分myself×386
- 先生teacher×381
- 棋士professional shogi player×267
- 島田Shikuda×228
- 宗谷Souya×205
- 海堂Umidou×194
- 九段ninth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)×145
- 棋go (board game)×142
- 羽海野チカUmino Chika×138
- 八段eighth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)×121