A girl with bloody iron pipes, sleepy eyes flickering - just talk. "On the Islands, a gunshot echoes today. As usual. People die. As usual. Dogs and more dogs, the dogs, well, kill each other. As usual. The Bosses of the eastern sections, transform. As usual. A fellow murderer, using swords and the eastern sections of the cat, the brother Li Feng, the detective brother, cute guys, clumsy love. As usual. The Island, I'm terribly confused. ... as always. After all, as usual. The island today is As Usual. That's it. So I, as always, the cute child, hug a lot. It's warm. I'm... sleepy" A series of short stories set on Etsusa Bridge.
Japanese study overview
Etsusa Bridge Gaiden is a Japanese novel of 108,789 characters, with 6,864 unique words and 1,704 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,864 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×328
- 事thing×323
- 少女girl (usu. between 7 and 17)×228
- 中inside×197
- 島island×195
- 男man×195
- 戌井Inui×189
- 自分myself×167
- 彼女she×163
- 言うto say×137
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×127
- 思うto think×115
- 潤Atsushi×96
- 狗dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)×84
- 八雲thick clouds×38
- 麗鳳Reihou×34
- 世話役manager×30
- 鉄パイプiron pipe×29
- 葛原Kasahara×24
- 自警団vigilante group×19