Severance

Drama·セヴェランス
Severance
2022/02/17
Speech time
5h 28min
Word count33,725
Unique words
5,020
Unique kanji
1,358
Avg. sentence7.9
Speech speed
273
Difficulty Hard
Episodes19
Rating
83 %

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Genres
Drama
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Tags
Not Originally JP
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Severance is a Japanese drama of 76,241 characters, with 5,020 unique words and 1,358 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,020 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
22min
Word count2,414
Unique words
875
Unique kanji
477
Avg. sentence7.9
Speech speed
278
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
24min
Word count2,525
Unique words
980
Unique kanji
553
Avg. sentence8.7
Speech speed
285
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
22min
Word count2,462
Unique words
944
Unique kanji
550
Avg. sentence8.2
Speech speed
287
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
17min
Word count1,822
Unique words
771
Unique kanji
480
Avg. sentence8.0
Speech speed
274
Difficulty Hard

Episode 5

Speech time
18min
Word count1,931
Unique words
750
Unique kanji
442
Avg. sentence7.7
Speech speed
278
Difficulty Hard

Episode 6

Speech time
16min
Word count1,702
Unique words
688
Unique kanji
426
Avg. sentence7.7
Speech speed
269
Difficulty Hard

Episode 7

Speech time
22min
Word count2,110
Unique words
784
Unique kanji
442
Avg. sentence8.0
Speech speed
252
Difficulty Average

Episode 8

Speech time
13min
Word count1,382
Unique words
605
Unique kanji
339
Avg. sentence7.9
Speech speed
277
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
15min
Word count1,592
Unique words
647
Unique kanji
381
Avg. sentence8.0
Speech speed
276
Difficulty Average

Episode 10

Speech time
20min
Word count2,189
Unique words
767
Unique kanji
460
Avg. sentence8.2
Speech speed
279
Difficulty Average

Episode 11

Speech time
16min
Word count1,676
Unique words
692
Unique kanji
438
Avg. sentence8.0
Speech speed
274
Difficulty Hard

Episode 12

Speech time
17min
Word count1,646
Unique words
658
Unique kanji
388
Avg. sentence7.1
Speech speed
262
Difficulty Average

Episode 13

Speech time
14min
Word count1,474
Unique words
587
Unique kanji
386
Avg. sentence7.6
Speech speed
257
Difficulty Hard

Episode 14

Speech time
18min
Word count1,973
Unique words
793
Unique kanji
501
Avg. sentence8.5
Speech speed
285
Difficulty Average

Episode 15

Speech time
16min
Word count1,652
Unique words
635
Unique kanji
392
Avg. sentence7.4
Speech speed
267
Difficulty Hard

Episode 16

Speech time
12min
Word count1,239
Unique words
558
Unique kanji
340
Avg. sentence7.0
Speech speed
261
Difficulty Average

Episode 17

Speech time
7min
Word count792
Unique words
392
Unique kanji
256
Avg. sentence8.5
Speech speed
280
Difficulty Hard

Episode 18

Speech time
12min
Word count1,270
Unique words
510
Unique kanji
331
Avg. sentence7.5
Speech speed
266
Difficulty Hard

Episode 19

Speech time
18min
Word count1,874
Unique words
688
Unique kanji
383
Avg. sentence7.5
Speech speed
262
Difficulty Hard

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