Water Boys

Drama·WATER BOYS
Water Boys
2003/07/01
Speech time
11h 55min
Word count86,865
Unique words
6,433
Unique kanji
1,348
Avg. sentence10.1
Speech speed
333
Difficulty Average
Episodes23
Rating
72 %

Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members in each team. There were 32 swimmers in this drama who were carefully chosen to fit their roles, but none of them had ever done synchronized swimming before.

Genres
Comedy
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Water Boys is a Japanese drama of 211,634 characters, with 6,433 unique words and 1,348 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,433 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
29min
Word count4,149
Unique words
1,133
Unique kanji
553
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
393
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
26min
Word count3,772
Unique words
1,008
Unique kanji
484
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
378
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
34min
Word count4,091
Unique words
1,019
Unique kanji
510
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
314
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
26min
Word count3,829
Unique words
1,064
Unique kanji
535
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
405
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
26min
Word count3,652
Unique words
956
Unique kanji
434
Avg. sentence9.8
Speech speed
372
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
34min
Word count3,804
Unique words
984
Unique kanji
453
Avg. sentence10.4
Speech speed
287
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
36min
Word count4,113
Unique words
1,012
Unique kanji
431
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
305
Difficulty Average

Episode 8

Speech time
29min
Word count4,347
Unique words
1,075
Unique kanji
478
Avg. sentence10.5
Speech speed
397
Difficulty Average

Episode 9

Speech time
28min
Word count4,017
Unique words
1,051
Unique kanji
492
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
419
Difficulty Average

Episode 10

Speech time
35min
Word count4,090
Unique words
1,067
Unique kanji
494
Avg. sentence11.3
Speech speed
327
Difficulty Average

Episode 11

Speech time
24min
Word count3,362
Unique words
907
Unique kanji
454
Avg. sentence9.0
Speech speed
379
Difficulty Average

Episode 12

Speech time
27min
Word count3,665
Unique words
957
Unique kanji
454
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
383
Difficulty Easy

Episode 13

Speech time
33min
Word count3,613
Unique words
1,006
Unique kanji
458
Avg. sentence10.1
Speech speed
290
Difficulty Easy

Episode 14

Speech time
26min
Word count3,472
Unique words
972
Unique kanji
445
Avg. sentence9.8
Speech speed
347
Difficulty Average

Episode 15

Speech time
29min
Word count2,885
Unique words
817
Unique kanji
391
Avg. sentence9.1
Speech speed
263
Difficulty Average

Episode 16

Speech time
24min
Word count3,194
Unique words
827
Unique kanji
429
Avg. sentence10.1
Speech speed
358
Difficulty Average

Episode 17

Speech time
27min
Word count3,817
Unique words
934
Unique kanji
413
Avg. sentence9.6
Speech speed
372
Difficulty Average

Episode 18

Speech time
29min
Word count3,805
Unique words
991
Unique kanji
470
Avg. sentence10.9
Speech speed
382
Difficulty Average

Episode 19

Speech time
34min
Word count3,571
Unique words
981
Unique kanji
469
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
274
Difficulty Easy

Episode 20

Speech time
34min
Word count3,608
Unique words
956
Unique kanji
412
Avg. sentence10.6
Speech speed
305
Difficulty Average

Episode 21

Speech time
33min
Word count3,844
Unique words
993
Unique kanji
477
Avg. sentence10.6
Speech speed
319
Difficulty Average

Episode 22

Speech time
31min
Word count3,294
Unique words
910
Unique kanji
446
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
279
Difficulty Average

Episode 23

Speech time
50min
Word count4,871
Unique words
1,095
Unique kanji
493
Avg. sentence9.1
Speech speed
254
Difficulty Average

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