A high school baseball player named Takamura Kou feels left behind by his peers as graduation looms on the horizon. He fears he can never "get serious" about anything in life, until he is introduced to the world of shoot 'em up video games. Are these games what he has been looking for and will this new interest improve his life or tear it apart?
Japanese study overview
Rensha-ou is a Japanese novel of 301,686 characters, with 8,875 unique words and 1,706 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,875 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.
- 高村Kōmura×2,262
- 思うto think×911
- 言うto say×704
- 自分myself×683
- 岩田Iwata×650
- 竹bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)×510
- 連射rapid firing×504
- 自機one's character or vehicle×494
- 言葉language×409
- 画面screen (of a TV, computer, etc.)×364
- 出来るto be able to do×358
- 今now×339
- 筐体case (of a machine, computer, etc.)×153
- 麻美Asami×149
- 小山田Oyamata×142
- 敵機enemy plane×93
- 敵弾enemy bullet×93
- 砲台(gun) battery×76
- 竹Take×66
- 砲塔gun turret×38