Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine. (Source: Anime News Network) Notes: - Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award for best creative work in 2006. - Winner of Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007.
Japanese study overview
Ookiku Furikabutte is a Japanese manga of 619,203 characters, with 17,145 unique words and 1,927 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,145 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 君Mr×1,612
- 打つto hit×1,177
- 番number (in a series)×1,128
- 投げるto throw×835
- 思うto think×825
- 球sphere×823
- 三橋Mishihashi×819
- 球ball×754
- 言うto say×711
- 目eye×624
- 阿部Abu×568
- 回counter for occurrences×557
- 投手pitcher×471
- 田島Tashima×441
- 花井Kei×345
- 西浦Nishiura×320
- 打席batter's box×268
- 榛名Haruna×253
- 捕手catcher×224
- 打者batter×219