Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko is a Japanese anime of 22,708 characters, with 2,861 unique words and 1,030 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,861 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 人間human being×73
- 山mountain×34
- 権太Kenta×32
- 変化change×27
- 開発development×24
- 化けるto take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.)×23
- 正吉Shoukichi×23
- 出るto leave×20
- 学learning×19
- 思うto think×16
- 言うto say×15
- 森forest×15
- 化けtransforming oneself×11
- 多摩Tama×10
- 和尚Oshou×10
- 文太Bunta×10
- 万福寺Manpukuji×9
- 佐渡Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture)×7
- 化かすto bewitch×7
- 追いだすto expel×7