Black Rod

Novel·ブラックロッド
Black Rod
1996/01/01
Characters262,482
Word count118,170
Unique words
13,953
Unique kanji
2,204
Avg. sentence21.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue19.5%
Volumes3
Duration
19 h

Japanese study overview

Black Rod is a Japanese novel of 262,482 characters, with 13,953 unique words and 2,204 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,953 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Volume 1 - ブラックロッド

Characters68,088
Word count30,908
Unique words
6,560
Unique kanji
1,666
Avg. sentence20.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue22.8%
Duration
5 h

Volume 2 - ブラッドジャケット

Characters83,186
Word count37,162
Unique words
7,079
Unique kanji
1,708
Avg. sentence20.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue15.4%
Duration
6 h

Volume 3 - ブライトライツ・ホーリーランド

Characters111,208
Word count50,100
Unique words
7,755
Unique kanji
1,781
Avg. sentence22.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue20.5%
Duration
8 h

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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.

See the full vocabulary list (13,953 words)