
In the year 2020, the protagonist and her childhood friends prepare for their Christmas break. As they board an airplane to return to Japan, they are sucked into the parallel world. This world is experiencing the turbulent end of the Tokugawa shogunate in December 1863. Using a magical hourglass, she gains the unsteady power to travel to both worlds. Although she and her companions flicker in and out of the parallel world, her adventures within this world span a total of three years. Initially, the protagonist desires to save the suffering Four Gods from the parallel world's warring factions in order to save her mysteriously ravaged home world. As time passes, she learns that both worlds are being merged to create another world. Hoping to prevent the forceful deaths of two worlds, she willingly sacrifices fragments of her own life force to protect those dear to her.
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5 is a Japanese visual novel of 835,681 characters, with 14,592 unique words and 2,022 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 14,592 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.