Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.
Japanese study overview
Kaze Tachinu is a Japanese anime of 13,488 characters, with 1,794 unique words and 864 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,794 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.
- 力force×146
- 一one×65
- 二郎Jirou×46
- 君you×28
- 私I×27
- 飛行機airplane×27
- 力strength×26
- 卜fortune-telling×24
- 二two×23
- 夢dream×23
- 僕I×23
- 思うto think×21
- 菜穂子Naoko×19
- 本庄Honshou×14
- 黒川Kurokawa×10
- 鯖mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus)×9
- 吟Akira×8
- 萱grass used for thatching×7
- 鱒trout×7
- 鋲rivet×6