
Shintarou Kisaragi, a NEET–person “Not in Education, Employment, or Training”–has refused to leave the comfort of his room for two whole years. But Shintarou’s easy and solitary life is about to take an unexpected turn when his computer crashes and he is forced to venture into the world he was happy to shut out forever…and stumbles into the middle of a hostage situation! (Source: Yen Press)
Kagerou Daze is a Japanese novel of 567,982 characters, with 16,396 unique words and 2,204 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 16,396 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.