Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Japanese study overview
Gintama is a Japanese anime of 1,097,329 characters, with 26,586 unique words and 2,454 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 26,586 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.
- 俺I×2,797
- 言うto say×2,016
- お前you×1,772
- 私I×1,517
- 奴fellow×969
- 思うto think×883
- 事thing×880
- 何でwhy?×810
- 僕I×753
- 銀silver (Ag)×717
- 人person×716
- 待つto wait×703
- 銀さんGinsan×689
- 新八Shinpachi×507
- 神楽Kagura×488
- 土方construction worker×276
- 通Ikariya×250
- 桂katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)×242
- 攘夷expulsion of foreigners×168
- 副長deputy head×138