East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team. In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.
Japanese study overview
GIANT KILLING is a Japanese anime of 103,585 characters, with 4,550 unique words and 1,149 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,550 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.
- 心の声(one's) inner voice×599
- 俺I×383
- 椿common camellia (Camellia japonica)×188
- 監督supervision×183
- お前you×170
- 達海Satomi×159
- 事thing×148
- 言うto say×128
- 試合match×112
- 世良Seira×106
- 選手player (of a sport)×95
- 勝つto win×94
- 村越Murakushi×93
- 夏木Kaboku×81
- 赤崎Akasaki×72
- 黒田Kurida×55
- 日本代表Japanese representative×13
- 背番号number on the back of a player's uniform×12
- リーグ戦league match×11
- 紅白戦contest between two groups×10