Riders on a commuter train get an earthquake warning on their cellphones. Cars lurch as electric sparks fly, people are thrown about and the lights go out. Train 5 passengers awake to find that they are no longer in a tunnel, and overgrown brush can be seen through the windows. People slide open the doors and find that the train tracks end suddenly ahead and behind the car. People's reactions to losing the modern world vary from confusion to alarm to indifference. Where or when are they? Can they survive in this wilderness?
Japanese study overview
Pending Train: 8:23, Ashita Kimi to is a Japanese drama of 61,262 characters, with 3,660 unique words and 1,126 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,660 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.
- 俺I×204
- 言うto say×110
- 人person×107
- 待つto wait×96
- 思うto think×84
- 今now×84
- 戻るto turn back (e.g. half-way)×84
- 萱島Kayashima×83
- 私I×80
- 白浜Shirahama×66
- 帰るto return×65
- 未来(distant) future×65
- 小春10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November)×53
- 畑野Hatano×48
- 直哉Naoki×26
- 号車suffix for train car numbers×16
- 達哉Tatsuchika×16
- 和真Kazuma×15
- 白浜white sandy beach×13
- 消防士firefighter×9