The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another...
Japanese study overview
Fate/strange Fake is a Japanese novel of 950,270 characters, with 20,566 unique words and 2,615 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 20,566 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×2,795
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×1,451
- 言うto say×1,361
- 自分myself×1,241
- 中inside×1,204
- 魔術師magician×1,191
- 言葉language×1,080
- 私I×1,042
- 英霊spirit of the dead (esp. of those killed in war)×1,014
- 魔力magical powers×962
- 魔術magic×946
- 聖杯chalice (for Holy Communion)×941
- 宝具treasured item×424
- 弓兵archer×203
- 時計塔clock tower×175
- 影法師shadow figure×137
- 冬木tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree)×118
- 警官隊(squad of) police×116
- 問い掛けるto ask a question×110
- 幻術magic×98