Released on July 13th 2000, Junji Inagawa's Midnight Taxi is a PS1 horror visual novel developed by the Osaka based company, Visit. It is a sequel to their 1999 game, Junji Inagawa's Mansion of Terror. The player takes on the role of a taxi driver in Osore Cho 恐れ町 (literally Fear Town), listening to the various horror stories of their clients. You have the option to pick up or ignore clients, and the story changes depending on these decisions. Occasionally you will be attacked by paranormal phenomena, so it is still possible to get a game over. There are 36 stories in total, including 4 hidden stories. Each of the stories are between ten and twenty minutes long. Ten of the stories are narrated by Mr Inagawa, while fourteen are narrated by other voice actors. The remaining eight stories have no narration and are only text based. There are certainly some famous ghost stories included in this collection, in particular 犬鳴峠 - Howling Dog Pass.
Japanese study overview
Inagawa Junji: Mayonaka no Taxi is a Japanese visual novel of 41,750 characters, with 3,163 unique words and 1,031 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,163 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×397
- 男man×140
- 客guest×116
- 女woman×106
- 言うto say×97
- 思うto think×95
- 車car×90
- 僕I×89
- 聞くto hear×62
- 前in front (of)×60
- 稲川Inakawa×56
- 人影figure of a person×52
- 絵理Eri×51
- 中井Nai×40
- 車庫garage×34
- 中島Nakashima×33
- 浅川Asakawa×15
- 出席番号student number (for seating, etc. in class)×10
- 腕立て伏せpush-up (exercise)×6
- 遊泳swimming×6