Heike Monogatari

Anime·平家物語·The Heike Story
Heike Monogatari
2021/09/16
Speech time
2h 28min
Word count15,812
Unique words
2,915
Unique kanji
1,064
Avg. sentence9.5
Speech speed
279
Difficulty Hard
Episodes11
Rating
77 %

A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary psychic abilities. Unfortunately, what she predicts is a future of bloodshed, violence, and civil war. Inspired by the 12th-century epic tale Heike Monogatari. (Source: Funimation)

Genres
Drama
Supernatural
Tags
Writing
Politics
War
Historical
Philosophy
Religion
Military
Samurai
Female Protagonist
Orphan
Archery
Time Skip
Tomboy
Adoption
Ships
Transgender

Japanese study overview

Heike Monogatari is a Japanese anime of 34,618 characters, with 2,915 unique words and 1,064 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,915 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
12min
Word count1,192
Unique words
497
Unique kanji
289
Avg. sentence7.7
Speech speed
247
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
13min
Word count1,405
Unique words
577
Unique kanji
325
Avg. sentence9.7
Speech speed
281
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
14min
Word count1,614
Unique words
604
Unique kanji
336
Avg. sentence9.8
Speech speed
287
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
14min
Word count1,422
Unique words
569
Unique kanji
320
Avg. sentence9.2
Speech speed
256
Difficulty Hard

Episode 5

Speech time
14min
Word count1,654
Unique words
677
Unique kanji
407
Avg. sentence9.9
Speech speed
306
Difficulty Hard

Episode 6

Speech time
14min
Word count1,715
Unique words
667
Unique kanji
376
Avg. sentence10.6
Speech speed
320
Difficulty Hard

Episode 7

Speech time
13min
Word count1,483
Unique words
592
Unique kanji
357
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
283
Difficulty Hard

Episode 8

Speech time
14min
Word count1,517
Unique words
574
Unique kanji
334
Avg. sentence9.9
Speech speed
279
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
13min
Word count1,411
Unique words
518
Unique kanji
309
Avg. sentence8.4
Speech speed
272
Difficulty Hard

Episode 10

Speech time
12min
Word count1,341
Unique words
508
Unique kanji
291
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
290
Difficulty Hard

Episode 11

Speech time
11min
Word count1,058
Unique words
443
Unique kanji
253
Avg. sentence8.6
Speech speed
235
Difficulty Hard

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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.

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