
Yoshimoto Shinkigeki – literally ‘new comedy’ – is an ironic name for something that’s been around for 60 years. It’s theatre comedy, with wordplay, OTT slapstick, and ‘slice of life’ stories that get too real.
Yoshimoto Shinkigeki is a Japanese drama of 840,897 characters, with 13,531 unique words and 1,792 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,531 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.