What would you do if a tiger skin bikini-clad alien followed you to school every day? Poor Ataru's life has never returned to normal since volatile extraterrestrial princess Lum fell for him. Now an excruciatingly wealthy and genteel rival, Mendo, adds to Ataru's torment. Not to mention an unending stream of extraordinary classroom visitors and educational materials including incompetent cherry blossom spirits, a legendary nightmare-eating tapir, and a fourth-dimensional camera that breeches alternate realities. (Source: Viz Media)
Japanese study overview
Urusei Yatsura is a Japanese manga of 593,960 characters, with 18,862 unique words and 1,957 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 18,862 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.
- 星star (usu. excluding the Sun)×2,407
- 図drawing×736
- 男man×460
- 諸星Ose×457
- 女woman×445
- 思うto think×428
- 面堂Mendou×405
- 待つto wait×385
- 私I×348
- 皿plate×335
- 堪Shinobu×334
- 四four×322
- 竜之介Tatsunosuke×307
- 飛鳥Asuka×175
- 了子Akirako×155
- 弁天Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)×125
- 高橋留美子Takahashi Rumiko (1957.10.10-)×119
- 友引day that is lucky in the morning and evening but unlucky around noon, when one's luck affects others (in the traditional calendar)×65
- 茶屋teahouse×43
- 節分setsubun×41