
Volume 1: "All I ever see in thee is the visage of death." Shinobu Oshino and Koyomi Araragi set off to meet Deathtopia Virtuoso Suicide-Master in her homeland, the tentatively named Kingdom of Acerola. As the humans fall into a state of disorder, the vampires are being wiped out by a virus that only infects aberrations? This is the modern era of oddities, oddities, and more oddities! Youth is by your side, alive and well. Volume 2: "Good night, sleep tight, and sweet dreams." As a specialist in training, Nadeko Sengoku heads to Iriomote Island with Yotsugi Ononoki and Deishuu Kaiki. Their target is the snake charmer Uroko Around— the root of all evil, and the biological daughter of Izuko Gaen. What will be the outcome of Nadeko's deathmatch? This is the modern era of oddities, oddities, and more oddities! Thank you, youth. Until we meet again. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Shinomonogatari is a Japanese novel of 268,164 characters, with 12,696 unique words and 2,138 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,696 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.