
12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires--and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.
Vampire Hunter D is a Japanese novel of 4,484,141 characters, with 42,294 unique words and 3,132 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 4.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 42,294 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.