In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death - both virtual and real... (Source: Yen Press)
Japanese study overview
Sword Art Online is a Japanese novel of 3,986,606 characters, with 42,236 unique words and 3,001 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 42,236 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.
- 俺I×10,721
- 言うto say×4,438
- 剣sword (esp. a large, double-edged one)×4,336
- 騎士(medieval) knight×2,993
- 思うto think×2,966
- 声voice×2,887
- 世界the world×2,821
- 前in front (of)×2,630
- 顔face×2,373
- 自分myself×2,202
- 体body×2,076
- 時time×2,037
- 整合adjustment×1,268
- 明日奈Asuna×980
- 人界world of man×895
- 詩乃Utano×762
- 心意mind×626
- 和人Kazuo×589
- 菊岡Kikuoka×586
- 両眼both eyes×384