A hot-blooded sports comic about the members of a small-time baseball team who, through great effort and practice, develop into a star team. After transferring schools to Sumiya High, protagonist Taniguchi Takeo decides to participate in baseball practice at his new school. He changes into his previous schools's uniform, and the other team members notice that this is the uniform of Aoba Academy, famed for their baseball team. Because of this, they believe that Takeo is an amazing player; however, while he was at Aoba Academy, he was only a lackluster second-string player...!?
Japanese study overview
Captain is a Japanese manga of 280,542 characters, with 8,769 unique words and 1,187 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,769 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.
- ＫＬKuala Lumpur (Malaysia)×1,450
- 近藤Kontō×381
- 打つto hit×293
- 投げるto throw×274
- 試合match×210
- 墨谷Sumitani×201
- 練習practice×184
- 二two×170
- 丸井Marui×156
- 青葉Aoha×140
- 番number (in a series)×138
- 巻roll (e.g. of cloth)×133
- 谷口Tanikuchi×94
- 集英社Shueisha (publisher)×71
- 江田川Etagawa×63
- 井口Ikuchi×46
- 速球fastball×42
- 変化球breaking ball (pitch)×40
- 九回nine times×34
- 支China×34