2008/07/22
CharactersCharacter count35,036
Word count12,787
Unique words · 913 once
2,679 Unique kanji · 175 once
816 Difficulty Easy
Volumes2
RatingExternal Rating
79 %A little girl picks up a puppy abandoned in a cardboard box and takes it home. As the years pass, the father of the family forms a strong bond with the dog as his wife and daughter drift away from him. Faced with a divorce, he puts a few cardboard boxes and the dog in his car and drives south to see the sea.
Genres
Drama
Slice of Life
Tags
Animals
Family
Seinen
Male Protagonist
SourcesAnilist
Japanese study overview
Hoshi Mamoru Inu is a Japanese manga of 35,036 characters, with 2,679 unique words and 816 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,679 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.
- 犬dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)×88
- 私I×43
- 思うto think×36
- 言うto say×32
- 年year×26
- 哲男Akio×26
- 方direction×22
- 星star (usu. excluding the Sun)×22
- 買うto buy×21
- 守るto protect×20
- 北海道Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)×19
- 待つto wait×19
- 奥津Ootsu×14
- 村上たかしMurakami Takashi×13
- 双葉社Futabasha (publisher)×12
- 坂下Sakage×10
- 向日葵sunflower (Helianthus annuus)×6
- 双子星binary star×6
- 身元不明(a person or body being) unidentifiable (unidentified)×4
- 前作previous work×4