Before Naruto's birth, a great demon fox had attacked the Hidden Leaf Village. A man known as the 4th Hokage sealed the demon inside the newly born Naruto, causing him to unknowingly grow up detested by his fellow villagers. Despite his lack of talent in many areas of ninjutsu, Naruto strives for only one goal: to gain the title of Hokage, the strongest ninja in his village. Desiring the respect he never received, Naruto works towards his dream with fellow friends Sasuke and Sakura and mentor Kakashi as they go through many trials and battles that come with being a ninja.
Japanese study overview
NARUTO is a Japanese manga of 939,634 characters, with 22,118 unique words and 2,279 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 22,118 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.
- お前you×3,212
- 術art×1,347
- 言うto say×1,260
- 事thing×1,080
- 奴fellow×985
- 私I×983
- 忍stealth×938
- 思うto think×915
- 今now×910
- 力force×799
- 様Mr×795
- 里village×779
- 火影firelight×644
- 九尾Kuo×514
- 我愛羅Gaara×287
- 忍術ninjutsu×282
- 人柱person who died for a cause×274
- 幻術magic×249
- 綱手mooring rope×219
- 自来也Jiraiya×193