“I CAN GIVE YOU A SMILE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER!” Junior high school student Eisuke Sasaki has been found dead in a chilling fashion, with a smiley-faced paper bag over his head. This unsettling visage bears a striking resemblance to a recurring clue in a string of unsolved murders from 18 years ago – as well as the urban legend Emio, aka the Smiling Man, a serial killer said to grant his victims “a smile that will last forever”. Does the Smiling Man really exist…or is a new culprit continuing on his legacy? As a member of the Utsugi Detective Agency, you’ve been tasked with investigating the events that led to Eisuke Sasaki’s death. Along the way, scrutinise the clues and testimonies you gather for potential connections to the gruesome events of the past.
Japanese study overview
Famicom Tantei Club: Emio is a Japanese visual novel of 222,647 characters, with 6,426 unique words and 1,425 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,426 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.
- 事thing×782
- 刑事(police) detective×631
- 聞くto hear×589
- 事件event×468
- 久瀬Kyūse×444
- 前in front (of)×399
- 話talk×373
- 僕I×368
- 佐々木Ishida×354
- 思うto think×350
- 言うto say×313
- 神原Kamihara×285
- 英介Eisuke×232
- 都筑Chijiki×217
- 誠Akira×215
- 橘Kichi×188
- 探偵事務所detective bureau×39
- 髪留めbarrette×34
- 轟roaring×23
- 知るto know×282