One day, college student Shizuku Minase stumbles from modern-day Japan into a fantasy world. While wandering through a backwater region of this world of sword and sorcery, she meets Eric, an eccentric young man studying a magical script. The pair strike a deal: He'll help Shizuku return home if she teaches him Japanese. Thus the pair set off across the magical continent of Farsas in search of a way back to Earth. (Source: Yen Press)
Japanese study overview
Babel is a Japanese novel of 214,657 characters, with 9,282 unique words and 1,903 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,282 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 雫drop (e.g. of water)×1,500
- 彼女she×590
- 彼he×397
- 自分myself×329
- 言うto say×327
- 思うto think×321
- 世界the world×285
- 城castle×280
- 人間human being×251
- 魔法magic×243
- 男man×236
- 魔法士magician×225
- 禁呪charm×150
- 士長leading private (JSDF)×41
- 水神a water god×37
- 御伽噺fairy tale×30
- 主教bishop (Orthodox, Anglican, etc.)×29
- 豹leopard (Panthera pardus)×28
- 石碑stone monument×19
- 湖底bottom of a lake×18