
"Shimizu-san, you dyed your hair black." "Ah, yeah." "Why did you dye it all of a sudden?" "Because…yesterday…" Shimizu-san, the delinquent JK who sits next to me with her newly-dyed hair, gradually lowered her voice, slightly blushed, and laid her face down on the desk. After that, when I, Daiki Hondo, talked with my friend about how I wanted be with a girl who can cook, the next day I ended up partnered with Shimizu-san in cooking class, even though she used to always skip class. When I mentioned that I wished I could try a girl's hand-made cooking, for some reason she brought two bentos to lunch the next day and shared one with me… (Source: Sneaker Bunko, translated)
Tonari no Seki no Yankee Shimizu-san ga Kami o Kuroku Sometekita is a Japanese novel of 171,680 characters, with 5,803 unique words and 1,345 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,803 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.