
Visual novel adapted from the youth horror novel written by Hajime Ninomae and illustrated by Yoshitoshi ABe. Yamada Nagito, a university student living away from home, needing a cheap place to live, finds out about a mysterious “House that grants wishes” on the market for a ridiculously low rent; he snaps up the house and starts living there. A few nights in he starts hearing strange creaking noises. Each and every night he’s assaulted by these torturous noises. The last straw is when he finds the number 7 carved into the wall, as if counting down to something. Yamada having an interest in the occult seeks help from a website he frequently visits: “Ikaigabuchi”, which specialises in occult topics.
Phenomeno - Mitsurugi Yoishi wa Kowagaranai is a Japanese visual novel of 42,791 characters, with 3,683 unique words and 1,248 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,683 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.