The first part of the Monogatari Series. There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour. (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.
Japanese study overview
Bakemonogatari is a Japanese novel of 455,941 characters, with 13,957 unique words and 2,189 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,957 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.
- 僕I×2,421
- 言うto say×1,415
- 戦場ヶ原Senjōgahara×1,398
- 阿良々木Araragi×1,154
- 神原Kamihara×914
- 思うto think×753
- 羽川Ukawa×704
- 私I×652
- お前you×607
- 忍野Oshino×588
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×470
- 知るto know×348
- 千石Sengoku×330
- 八九寺Hachikuji×328
- 雨合羽raincoat×129
- 駿河Shukawa×112
- 撫子Natsuko×58
- 蝸牛snail×56
- 障りhindrance×55
- 学習塾cram school×46