A certain middle school girl has a fondness for hats, which serve as a line of defence against eye contact along with the overlong bangs she’s worn ever since she was little. Speaking in fits and starts when she doesn’t fall completely silent, her go-to line is “I’m sorry,” and she’s given to referring to herself in third person. Nadeko Sengoku is pretty, and not just cute. (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Otorimonogatari is a Japanese novel of 146,712 characters, with 6,408 unique words and 1,529 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,408 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.
- 撫子Natsuko×1,367
- 言うto say×633
- お兄ちゃん(one's) older brother×460
- 暦calendar×407
- 思うto think×306
- 月火Monday and Tuesday×180
- 蛇snake×177
- 俺様I×164
- 自分myself×154
- 人person×135
- 今now×124
- 言葉language×107
- 千石Sengoku×97
- 笹藪Sasayabu×58
- 神体shintai×51
- 火憐Karen×25
- 這入るto enter×23
- 貝木Kaiki×22
- 誤作動malfunction×18
- 撫子pink (any flower of genus Dianthus, esp. the fringed pink, Dianthus superbus)×16