A tale of heroine Tsubasa Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice—if that can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you’re asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration. The bone-chilling brokenness of her household, where father and mother and daughter keep three separate sets of cookware in the same kitchen and only ever prepare their own meals, and the profound darkness nurtured in the genius schoolgirl’s heart, come to life, if that is the word, through her self-vivisection. (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Nekomonogatari: Shiro is a Japanese novel of 150,950 characters, with 7,296 unique words and 1,677 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,296 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×1,106
- 言うto say×490
- 阿良々木Araragi×394
- 思うto think×373
- 戦場ヶ原Senjōgahara×365
- 俺I×299
- 羽川Ukawa×217
- 家house×183
- 怪異mystery×180
- 自分myself×171
- 虎tiger (Panthera tigris)×155
- 知るto know×153
- 神原Kamihara×100
- 火憐Karen×90
- 月火Monday and Tuesday×55
- 忍野Oshino×41
- 吾輩I×41
- 真宵Mayoi×38
- 障りhindrance×27
- 学習塾cram school×22