A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics - lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan. Like an unforgettable road movie, Dororo reaches deeper than its swashbuckling surface and offers a thoughtful allegory of becoming what one is, for nobody is born whole (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Dororo is a Japanese manga of 75,621 characters, with 4,719 unique words and 834 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,719 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.
- 妖怪ghost×113
- 死ぬto die×83
- 刀sword (esp. Japanese single-edged)×82
- 村village×72
- 出るto leave×70
- 百鬼丸Hyakkimaru×69
- 子child×68
- 人間human being×68
- 聞くto hear×64
- 斬るto kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.)×62
- 食うto eat×60
- 殺すto kill×57
- 野盗brigand×27
- 尼Buddhist nun×27
- 醍醐Taiko×26
- 万代Kazuyo×20
- 慈照Jishou×18
- 二郎丸Jiroumaru×17
- 妖気ominous atmosphere×14
- 助六inari and maki sushi served together×12