
My little sister loves me so much that it’s scary… no, seriously. My sister—Akari Namiki , is definitely a very charming girl. She’s got wits, she’s got beauty, she’s got style. But just look at me, I’m just some extra-ordinary mob. Now the problem that I’m facing is that this sister of mine loves me way too much. In my third year of middle school, I found the Onii-chan Notes in Akari’s room: a detailed log of my every behavior. Not to mention when she was usually so cold towards me, lo and behold, she was head over heels in her notebook. Oh, let’s not forget, my discovery of finding out that there were surveillance cameras and listening devices hidden around my room…! In the summer of my second year of highschool, I learned of Akari’s plan to ‘Lock up Onii-chan, and make it so he can’t live without me’. I made my decision. Then and there. To interact with Akari as a brother—nothing more—and stop her before this goes too far—! (Source: Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, translated)
Imouto ga Brocon de Aru koto wo Ani dake wa Shitteiru. is a Japanese novel of 167,720 characters, with 5,707 unique words and 1,359 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,707 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.