During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.
Japanese study overview
Shiki is a Japanese anime of 73,899 characters, with 4,385 unique words and 1,294 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,385 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.
- 俺I×203
- 村village×171
- 死ぬto die×148
- 言うto say×129
- 起き上がるto rise×122
- 思うto think×119
- 恵Ai×117
- 人person×108
- 先生teacher×108
- 殺すto kill×86
- 夏野Kano×73
- 君Mr×72
- 敏夫Toshio×55
- 徹Akira×50
- 結城Ketsushiro×49
- 兼正Kanemasa×48
- 屍鬼vetala×43
- 伝染病contagious disease×29
- 君you×67
- お前you×63