The protagonist is a teenage girl (Tamaki) who revisits a small village she remembers from her childhood and gets caught up in her family's history and the supernatural dangers surrounding it. While walking along the hillsides waiting for the person who her grandmother sent to fetch Tamaki to the village, Tamaki comes across a small, white round object which has sticks for limbs and can talk. It runs off soon after with Tamaki chasing after it. Soon Tamaki finds herself in a place where "it does not feel like the world I came from." She gets attacked by three slime creatures, and a mysterious man comes charging in to save her by clamping his hands around her body and mouth then telling her to be quiet. After the young man (Takuma) saves her he walks her to the village where her grandmother is staying. Soon after her arrival she meets with her grandmother. It's later explained that she has to continue the role of ancestor princess (Tamayori), to seal the sword Onikirimaru with the help of her five guardians.
Japanese study overview
Hiiro no Kakera ~Omoi Iro no Kioku~ is a Japanese visual novel of 959,452 characters, with 13,804 unique words and 1,904 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,804 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.
- 私I×9,974
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×3,251
- 言うto say×2,676
- 思うto think×2,292
- 拓磨Takuma×2,002
- 力force×1,849
- 慎司Shinji×1,765
- 君Mr×1,758
- 中inside×1,585
- 真弘Shinkou×1,554
- 卓Akira×1,494
- 美鶴Mika×1,461
- 祐一Kōichi×1,258
- 芦屋Ashiya×764
- 清乃Kiyono×680
- 玉依姫Tamayori-hime (deity; mother of Emperor Jimmu)×589
- 宝具treasured item×428
- 遼Kanata×411
- 典薬court physician×100
- 虫の音calls and sounds made by insects×65