
Mamoru Kagemori is a high school student who is neither good-looking, studious nor athletic. However, he is actually a skilled ninja who secretly protects his neighbour, Yuuna Konnyaku. Mamoru and Yuuna are now third year students, but their peaceful times are suddenly interrupted on the day of the opening ceremony when Marimo, a girl who claims to be Mamoru's younger sister, transfers to his school. Marimo immediately issues a challenge to Mamoru, intending to take his duty of protecting Yuuna away from him! A new chapter of the popular ninja romantic comedy has started! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
Motto! Kage kara Mamoru! is a Japanese novel of 171,710 characters, with 8,028 unique words and 1,683 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,028 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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