Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Japanese study overview
Shingeki no Kyojin is a Japanese anime of 87,783 characters, with 4,861 unique words and 1,278 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,861 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.
- 巨人giant×504
- 俺I×247
- お前you×211
- 人類mankind×132
- 言うto say×130
- 思うto think×118
- 兵団army corps×117
- 今now×117
- 私I×116
- 壁wall×106
- 調査investigation×105
- 死ぬto die×95
- 兵長leading private (Imperial Japanese Army)×54
- 憲兵military police×50
- 煙弾smoke bomb×22
- 超大型extra-large×21
- 新兵new recruit×21
- 内地within the borders of a country×19
- 壁外outside a wall×17
- 分隊長squad leader×16