
Kaoru, a high school student, falls in love with Sonoko, the leader of his school's swimming club. Although he can not swim, he joins the swim club to seduce her. It was adapted into a live action film directed by Joji Matsuoka in 1990.
Bataashi Kingyo is a Japanese manga of 121,764 characters, with 6,979 unique words and 1,267 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,979 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.