1988/10/17
Speech timeSpeech duration
30h 54minWord count270,023
Unique words · 7,759 once
17,869 Unique kanji · 213 once
2,061Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length12.7
Speech speed
396 Difficulty Hard
Episodes123
RatingExternal Rating
66 %Oishinbo is a drama about newspaper reporters. The main character is a cynical food critic named Yamaoka. Oishinbo is a popular mainstream comic for adults in Japan. It is even mentioned in an episode of "Iron Chef". (Source: AniDB)
Genres
Drama
Slice of Life
Tags
Food
Episodic
Educational
Work
Adult Cast
Seinen
Politics
Female Protagonist
Office Lady
Office
Japanese study overview
Oishinbo is a Japanese anime of 633,399 characters, with 17,869 unique words and 2,061 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,869 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.
- 山岡Yamaoka×1,808
- 私I×1,469
- 言うto say×1,019
- 食べるto eat×819
- 味flavor×783
- 料理cooking×724
- 思うto think×630
- 俺I×573
- 作るto make×502
- 先生teacher×486
- 海原Unahara×358
- 究極ultimate×356
- 雄山Oyama×269
- 士郎Shirou×268
- 栗田Kurita×252
- 副部長deputy director×166
- 社主owner of a company×156
- 大原Oohara×143
- 文化部culture club (e.g. at school)×97
- 陶pottery×94