As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television.
Japanese study overview
Battle Royale is a Japanese novel of 395,125 characters, with 12,568 unique words and 1,914 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,568 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.
- 終夜all night×1,723
- 川田Kaata×1,201
- 言うto say×931
- 典子Tsuneko×917
- 自分myself×669
- 俺I×580
- 信史Nobufumi×528
- 顔face×506
- 方direction×480
- 思うto think×480
- 中inside×443
- 桐山Kiyama×398
- 弘樹Kōki×384
- 光子photon×319
- 豊Shigeru×307
- 坂持Sakamachi×270
- 貴子Atsuko×238
- 分校branch school×121
- 体body×325
- 目eye×324