Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... (Source: Viz Media)
Japanese study overview
BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime of 114,842 characters, with 6,182 unique words and 1,389 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,182 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.
- 俺I×425
- お前you×378
- 君you×238
- 言うto say×217
- 僕I×174
- 私I×136
- 英二Eiji×136
- 殺すto kill×129
- 思うto think×122
- 彼he×113
- 知るto know×95
- 今now×79
- 伊部Inabe×35
- 李I×30
- 財団foundation (institution)×17
- 山猫wildcat (European wildcat, Iriomote cat, Tsushima cat, etc.)×16
- 俊一Shuuichi×15
- 奥村Okumura×13
- 男娼male prostitute×8
- 合衆国federation×7