Junpei Kousaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Kaede Mizuno, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizou-sama (guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family's own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusas. However, if he does not grant 100 wishes from cats, he will turn into a cat himself. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
Nyan Koi! is a Japanese anime of 51,074 characters, with 4,005 unique words and 1,063 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,005 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.
- 猫cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus)×176
- 潤平Junpei×156
- 高坂Kōsaka×148
- 俺I×131
- 私I×101
- 水野Misuno×93
- 加奈子Kanako×85
- 言うto say×84
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×76
- 凪calm (at sea)×74
- お前you×71
- 君Mr×62
- 琴音Kotone×57
- 楓Formosan sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)×51
- 晴彦Haruhiko×39
- 住吉Juukichi×38
- 朱莉Akari×38
- 地蔵Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)×26
- 住職chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)×17
- 楓maple (Acer spp.)×14