The suspense horror/dark fantasy story is set in Tokyo, which is haunted by mysterious "ghouls" who are devouring humans. People are gripped by the fear of these ghouls whose identities are masked in mystery. An ordinary college student named Kaneki encounters Rize, a girl who is an avid reader like him, at the café he frequents. Little does he realize that his fate will change overnight. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
Tokyo Ghoul is a Japanese anime of 42,659 characters, with 3,222 unique words and 1,017 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,222 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.
- 食うto eat×155
- 僕I×151
- 種kind×133
- 君Mr×112
- 区ward×79
- 君you×71
- 私I×65
- お前you×63
- 人person×62
- 殺すto kill×58
- 人間human being×53
- 俺I×51
- 亜門Amon×37
- 真戸Matsuto×29
- 西尾Saio×18
- 月山Gassan×17
- 隻眼one eye×16
- 喰べるto eat×8
- 特等special quality, class or grade×8
- 美食家epicure×7