The main character is Kou Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports. In the same neighborhood is a batting center run by the Tsukishima family. Due to their proximity and the relationship between their businesses, the Kitamura and Tsukishima familes have been close for many years, with their children going back and forth between the two homes like extended family. Because Kou and Wakaba were the same age and always together, Aoba was jealous of all the time Kou spent with her older sister. Aoba is a natural pitcher with excellent form, and Kou secretly trains to become as good as she was, even while publicly showing little interest in baseball.
Japanese study overview
Cross Game is a Japanese anime of 174,324 characters, with 6,537 unique words and 1,330 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,537 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×363
- 青葉Aoha×339
- お前you×331
- 言うto say×276
- 月島Tsukishima×229
- 番number (in a series)×227
- 君Mr×213
- 私I×182
- 東east×181
- 村village×171
- 試合match×160
- 思うto think×154
- 秀preeminence×144
- 赤石Akaishi×137
- 若葉Naoyo×116
- 千田Senta×65
- 三島Santō×64
- １軍an army×60
- 三振strikeout×48
- 打席batter's box×36