2036. Tokyo, ravished by radioactive contamination caused by a nuclear power-plant accident, is now in lockdown. COPPELION—a special unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces' 3rd Division made up of three high school girls genetically engineered to be impervious to radioactivity—is sent in to search for survivors in Tokyo, a.k.a. "The City of Death." (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Coppelion is a Japanese manga of 393,633 characters, with 13,621 unique words and 1,963 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,621 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.
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×539
- 東京Tokyo×496
- 葵mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae)×469
- 年year×456
- 私I×436
- 荊Kei×372
- 今now×368
- 待つto wait×364
- 生存者survivor×338
- 教頭deputy head teacher×292
- 遥人Haruto×288
- 成瀬Narise×284
- タエ子Taeko×270
- 放射能radioactivity×241
- 小津Ozu×167
- 真奈Shinna×159
- 歌音Utane×149
- 石棺sarcophagus×116
- 放射線radiation×93
- 防護服protective clothing×74