
Ever since the death of someone important to me, I’ve been living recklessly. After I became a high school student, there was a girl in my class who remained hospitalized due to “luminescence disease.” This disease is named for the fact that the bodies of those who suffer from it glow faintly when exposed to moonlight, and that glow becomes stronger as their time of death draws closer. The girl’s name is Watarase Mamizu. After learning that she doesn’t have long to live, and there are things that she wants to do before she dies… “Will you let me help you with that?” “Really?” As this promise was made, the time that had frozen for me began moving again. Grand Prize winner of the 23th Dengeki Novel Prize.
Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku is a Japanese novel of 99,218 characters, with 5,443 unique words and 1,407 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,443 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.