This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated series for this story focused on the feelings of the mother dog and baby lion, this animated production was the only one never completed. (Source: en.tezuka.co.jp) Note: In 1998, a renewed version was produced that changed some dialogue and re-recorded the audio with new voice actors. The last scene was also modified.
Japanese study overview
Yasashii Lion is a Japanese anime of 3,868 characters, with 449 unique words and 227 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 449 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.
- 走るto run×50
- お母さんmother×15
- 眠るto sleep×13
- 赤ちゃんbaby×7
- 動物園zoo×6
- いい子good boy×6
- 飲むto drink×6
- 子守歌lullaby×5
- 本当truth×5
- 好きliking×5
- 中inside×5
- 水溜まりpuddle×5
- 光るto shine×5
- 金色gold (colour, color)×5
- 風wind×5
- 幸せhappiness×4
- 親子parent and child×4
- 矢arrow×4
- 追いかけるto chase×4
- 変strange×3