Rui wa Tomo o Yobu

Visual Novel·るいは智を呼ぶ
Rui wa Tomo o Yobu
2008/06/26
Characters850,111
Word count357,698
Unique words
23,259
Unique kanji
2,489
Avg. sentence14.7
Difficulty ≈ Hard
Dialogue47.0%
Routes6
Duration
61 h
Rating
82 %

Wakutsu Tomo was brought up by his mother as a girl due to a small mark he has on his body. After his mother's death, he discovers via her will that she emphasizes Tomo continue to live as a female, and following this, Tomo starts to go through more troubles in his life. Tomo soon discovers that he is linked with five girls who are around his age as a second year high school student. These girls happen to have the same mark he has, and also have been going through hardships in their lives. Tomo and these five girls decide to form a pact to stay together and support each other to solve each of their problems and to bring peace to their lives. The title Rui wa Tomo o Yobu is also a Japanese proverb equivalent to the English proverb "birds of a feather flock together" when written with the kanji and kana 類は友を呼ぶ.

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Japanese study overview

Rui wa Tomo o Yobu is a Japanese visual novel of 850,111 characters, with 23,259 unique words and 2,489 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 23,259 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Common Route

Characters158,894
Word count65,555
Unique words
10,743
Unique kanji
1,974
Avg. sentence13.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue50.2%
Duration
11 h

Akaneko's Route

Characters158,311
Word count68,001
Unique words
8,759
Unique kanji
1,827
Avg. sentence13.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue51.2%
Duration
11 h

Atori's Route

Characters118,423
Word count49,898
Unique words
7,089
Unique kanji
1,622
Avg. sentence16.4
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue48.0%
Duration
8 h

Iyo's Route

Characters144,588
Word count62,224
Unique words
8,060
Unique kanji
1,797
Avg. sentence15.6
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue49.0%
Duration
10 h

Koyori's Route

Characters132,174
Word count54,241
Unique words
7,689
Unique kanji
1,719
Avg. sentence16.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue42.3%
Duration
9 h

Rui's Route

Characters137,721
Word count57,779
Unique words
8,835
Unique kanji
1,802
Avg. sentence13.9
Difficulty Expert
Dialogue40.2%
Duration
10 h

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Vocabulary highlights

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