Nearly twenty years into the 21st century, people have forgotten the existence of Yokai. When a number of unexplainable phenomena plague adults of the human world with confusion and chaos, thirteen-year-old Mana writes a letter to the Yokai Post in search of answers, only to be greeted by Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro... (Source: Crunchyroll)
Japanese study overview
Gegege no Kitarou (2018) is a Japanese anime of 192,124 characters, with 8,074 unique words and 1,537 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,074 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.
- 鬼太郎Onitarō×1,259
- 妖怪ghost×607
- お前you×349
- 俺I×331
- 人間human being×322
- 僕I×282
- 父さんfather×263
- 私I×260
- 男man×216
- 言うto say×207
- 娘daughter×191
- 待つto wait×156
- 横丁bystreet×105
- 一反one-tenth hectare×67
- 目玉Medama×52
- 雷獣beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt (in Chinese mythology)×36
- 杏子apricot (Prunus armeniaca)×34
- 呼子whistle×31
- 夜叉yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)×29
- 妖気ominous atmosphere×28