The game takes place in a fictional world inhabited by Ribika (who look like humans but have cat ears and tails). Their world has fallen into dark times -- a mysterious void has made some places (and even animals) impossible to touch, causing major food shortages. A strange and deadly disease that has killed off a large percentage of the female Ribika population is also spreading. The hero, Konoe, exists in this miserable world, living alone in the starving village of Karou who have turned to cannibalism. The story begins with Konoe in Karou, where he suddenly begins to see horrible dreams and strange marks appear on his body. This is believed to be a curse so Konoe heads off to Ransen (the big city) in order to heal his body...
Japanese study overview
Lamento -BEYOND THE VOID- is a Japanese visual novel of 771,000 characters, with 13,074 unique words and 2,013 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,074 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.
- 猫cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus)×1,709
- 思うto think×1,281
- 体body×973
- 自分myself×956
- 言うto say×824
- 時time×776
- お前you×750
- 中inside×731
- 尾tail (of an animal)×731
- 俺I×728
- 声voice×615
- 顔face×615
- 賛praise×277
- 吉良Kichiyoshi×243
- 楼tower×176
- 藍dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye)×170
- 戯pleasantry×124
- 冥Mei×123
- 呪術師witch doctor×104
- 悪魔Akuma×102