Sato Yo is a high school boy, who likes SEGA's games. One day, he enters a grocery store to buy some food for dinner. When he tries to take a bento box, he loses consciousness. He comes around to find all the bento sold out. He notices there is a war game going on at grocery stores and players called "Wolves" compete for the half-priced bento. Yarizui Sen, the leader of Half-Pricer Club, forces Yo to join the club and he enters the bento war.
Japanese study overview
Ben-To is a Japanese novel of 2,571,119 characters, with 32,347 unique words and 2,696 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 32,347 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.
- 僕I×13,372
- 彼女she×4,758
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×4,515
- 弁当bento×4,482
- 言うto say×3,694
- 白粉white makeup powder×3,238
- 思うto think×2,913
- 著莪fringed iris (Iris japonica)×2,892
- 佐藤Saiu×2,686
- 彼he×2,302
- 時time×2,230
- 自分myself×2,213
- 槍水Yarimizu×2,061
- 白梅white plum blossoms×1,512
- 茉莉花Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)×1,408
- 魔導士sorcerer×914
- 烏頭dried aconite root (used in traditional Chinese medicine)×826
- 二階堂Niidou×769
- 真希乃Makino×529
- 秋鹿Aika×460