The protagonist, Yaiba (Kurogane Yaiba), is a wild samurai boy who trains in the jungle with his father, Kenjuro! By chance, Yaiba returns to Japan, where he meets his rival Takeshi Onimaru, who has the same samurai spirit as Yaiba, in a new training ground. Yaiba is living a life of serious competition, but when Onimaru obtains the “Legendary Demon Sword”, he is on a journey full of spectacle and great adventure...! (Source: Crunchyroll News)
Japanese study overview
Shin Samurai-den YAIBA is a Japanese anime of 58,738 characters, with 3,609 unique words and 1,057 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,609 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 刃edge (of a knife or sword)×966
- 武蔵Takekura×355
- 鬼丸Onimaru×287
- 音sound×237
- 小次郎Kojirō×236
- 剣sword (esp. a large, double-edged one)×193
- 玉ball×117
- 俺I×96
- 雷神god of thunder×82
- 男man×81
- お前you×71
- 撫子pink (any flower of genus Dianthus, esp. the fringed pink, Dianthus superbus)×71
- 庄之助Shounosuke×69
- 十郎Jūrou×40
- 入道entering the priesthood×35
- 小太郎Kotarō×32
- 神剣divine sword (one of the three sacred treasures)×24
- 龍神Tatsugami×24
- 風神god of the wind×16
- 武蔵Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)×16