It’s spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal with the social stigma attached to being an otaku? Meanwhile, Saki Kasakabe has her own otaku conundrum. How can she turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji follow his heart as does Saki. When both Kanji and Makoto join Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Saki chases Makoto through the various activities of the club from cosplaying and comic conventions, to video gaming and anime model figures. Saki finds otaku to be more than she imagined, but not necessarily in a good way. (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Genshiken is a Japanese manga of 163,023 characters, with 9,071 unique words and 1,589 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,071 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.
- 事thing×313
- 言うto say×307
- 私I×301
- 俺I×200
- 思うto think×198
- 話talk×148
- 笹原Sasahara×147
- 話counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.×143
- 荻上Ogiue×142
- 会長president (of a society)×140
- 描くto draw×119
- 今now×112
- 大野Ouno×110
- 春日部Kasukabe×90
- 高坂Kōsaka×88
- 斑目Ikarugame×61
- 漫研society for the study of manga×44
- 朽木decayed tree×18
- 千尋great depth×17
- 格ゲーfighting game (esp. one-on-one)×15