Talk about games being called unexpectedly! Hasegawa Subaru joined the basketball club at Nanashiba High, only to have his hopes dashed when the teams' play is suspended after the captain is suspected of having inappropriate feelings for the coach's underage daughter. Blindsided and blocked by bad luck, Subaru expectedly finds an opening for his talent with the hoops when his aunt asks him to take on the task of coaching a young girls' basketball club - a Ro-Kyu-Bu!. But can a superstar wannabe find true satisfaction while playing sixth man to a team of five girls? (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Japanese study overview
Ro-Kyu-Bu! is a Japanese anime of 47,394 characters, with 2,970 unique words and 913 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,970 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.
- 私I×141
- 真帆Masaho×106
- 言うto say×93
- 愛莉Airi×90
- 思うto think×88
- 智花Chika×80
- 俺I×75
- 練習practice×73
- 頑張るto persevere×64
- 昴Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)×61
- 長谷川Sasegawa×60
- 紗季Saki×59
- 竹中Takenaka×37
- 昴Subaru×34
- 夏陽Kayou×30
- 美星Sakura×17
- 男バスmen's basketball×13
- 女バスwomen's basketball×12
- 球技大会school inter-class ball-game competition×9
- 湊harbour×8