The Judge Returns

Drama
The Judge Returns
2026/01/02
Speech time
8h 45min
Word count54,015
Unique words
6,448
Unique kanji
1,543
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
280
Difficulty Hard
Episodes14
Rating
81 %

The return of corrupt judge Lee Han-young, who was a slave to a large law firm, to the past 10 years ago. He makes new choices to punish evil and implement justice.

Genres
Drama
Sci-Fi
Tags
Time Manipulation
Not Originally JP
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

The Judge Returns is a Japanese drama of 126,218 characters, with 6,448 unique words and 1,543 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,448 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
35min
Word count3,469
Unique words
1,109
Unique kanji
636
Avg. sentence10.8
Speech speed
284
Difficulty Expert

Episode 2

Speech time
33min
Word count3,387
Unique words
1,023
Unique kanji
585
Avg. sentence9.2
Speech speed
265
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
39min
Word count4,106
Unique words
1,258
Unique kanji
651
Avg. sentence10.8
Speech speed
283
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
39min
Word count4,160
Unique words
1,364
Unique kanji
691
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
285
Difficulty Hard

Episode 5

Speech time
39min
Word count3,924
Unique words
1,275
Unique kanji
681
Avg. sentence10.5
Speech speed
275
Difficulty Hard

Episode 6

Speech time
38min
Word count3,826
Unique words
1,149
Unique kanji
632
Avg. sentence9.0
Speech speed
267
Difficulty Hard

Episode 7

Speech time
39min
Word count3,920
Unique words
1,262
Unique kanji
653
Avg. sentence9.7
Speech speed
272
Difficulty Hard

Episode 8

Speech time
32min
Word count3,630
Unique words
1,201
Unique kanji
686
Avg. sentence11.1
Speech speed
294
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
40min
Word count4,400
Unique words
1,292
Unique kanji
657
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
293
Difficulty Hard

Episode 10

Speech time
37min
Word count3,951
Unique words
1,237
Unique kanji
665
Avg. sentence10.8
Speech speed
283
Difficulty Hard

Episode 11

Speech time
41min
Word count4,330
Unique words
1,381
Unique kanji
734
Avg. sentence10.7
Speech speed
287
Difficulty Hard

Episode 12

Speech time
37min
Word count3,716
Unique words
1,248
Unique kanji
680
Avg. sentence10.7
Speech speed
277
Difficulty Hard

Episode 13

Speech time
35min
Word count3,633
Unique words
1,180
Unique kanji
684
Avg. sentence10.4
Speech speed
272
Difficulty Hard

Episode 14

Speech time
34min
Word count3,563
Unique words
1,181
Unique kanji
688
Avg. sentence11.5
Speech speed
281
Difficulty Hard

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