The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
Japanese study overview
#HandoZenryoku is a Japanese movie of 16,042 characters, with 1,545 unique words and 620 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,545 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.
- 全力all one's power (strength, energy, efforts)×40
- 俺I×31
- お前you×30
- 言うto say×28
- 部長head (chief, director) of a section or department×27
- 君Mr×24
- 頑張るto persevere×22
- 七尾Shichio×21
- 何でwhy?×17
- 部department (in an organization, company, etc.)×17
- 男子boy×17
- ＳＮＳsocial networking service×16
- 送球throw×12
- 熊本Kumamoto (city, prefecture)×10
- 岡本Okahon×8
- 仮設temporary construction×7
- 震災earthquake disaster×6
- 林田Haida×5
- 黒澤Kurosawa×4
- 広田Kōda×4